Musings at Altitude

As I now say goodbye to 2008, I’m making my focus of 2009 on “magic”.  In my professional and personal lives, I want to not only experience magic in some way every single day, but I want to provide magic to others in every single interaction.  For me personally, I can find magic every morning […]

In my personal life, I’ve had magical moments as well.  I remember clearly that night in April of 1977 when I was shaking nervously before finally asking that beautiful 14 year old girl if she wanted to go out with me.  I was 16, and I actually didn’t ask her if she wanted to go […]

I’ve been thinking back over my business life and thinking about those magical moments that happen when all things seem to go right – that perfect program that comes in ahead of schedule and under budget; that perfectly timed contract that leads to the investment round being signed or leads to that advance check that […]

Yesterday was focused on family – two sessions of opening presents, one with my wife’s Dad and her family and one with my Mom and Dad – special breakfast in the morning (a specialty of my wife’s childhood days) – special buffet dinner – then cards, chats, and good byes. After three straight days of buffets (that’s […]

We’ve been visiting our home in Mississippi the last two days, and I can say unequivocally that I’ve found peace.  Here’s some proof: Any yet more proof: At this time of such great concern and anxiety over just about everything – the economy, our jobs, the war, our savings – for these few days when I […]

Day 2 was about 3 hours shorter than day 1, but the banter was no less spirited and the insanity no less unbearable!  My 2 ladies drove me nuts most of the day, but as you can see from the picture below, they seemed to enjoy the abuse they were so easily dishing out in […]

We left the house this morning just before 8:00.  The van was completely filled with presents.  In fact, we took all but one passenger seat out of the van, and the rest was completely filled.  We covered everything with blankets to at least provide some form of operational security, but I’d certainly target it if […]

Lots of things on my mind tonight – purely random: (1) I ran my “musings” blog through www.typealyzer.com to see how my writing is rated.  Here’s what it says: The gentle and compassionate type.  They are especially attuned to their inner values and what other people need.  They are not friends of many words and […]

I spent today in the Washington DC area and visited many of my friends who over the last 5 years have led their teams from start up to delivering hundreds of millions in revenue with significant profits for their owners.  It’s something special to remember the initial business plan discussions and to now see how […]

I was very fortunate today to be upgraded to Business Class on the flight from Denver to Washington Dulles.  We were on a United 767, and the plane we were on had been recently reconfigured to have seats facing both forwards and backwards in Business Class. I was one of the lucky ones that got […]