1992 NFC Championship
San Francisco, CA 1:45 PM I’ve trained myself pretty good to stay focused when I am off the road to work during the day. Part of that comes from my sales training and the ability my companies gave me to work from home. As I’ve done my book, the only time the TV comes on is during lunch, and that is usually Headline News or CNN and an occasional ESPN News. Today is different. Eating a late lunch at 1:00, ESPN has the NFL’s Greatest Games on. Today’s game from 1 to 2:30 is the 1992 NFC Championship Game between my Dallas Cowboys at the San Francisco 49ers. I must have been a junior in...
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Rochester, NY 6:22 PM I’m going through my book chapters to pull out quotes that will go into the margin and also do the end of chapter summaries. This morning the retired Navy Captain talked about how important his relationship was with his father and what an influence he was in his life. As I read that, the beaming sun and blue sky called out to me. So did the forecast for tomorrow, which is 100% rain. So I talked to my dad and off we went to the outdoors and a hike next to the Genesee River. The Genesee Riverway Trail is a newly publicized walk next to one of the few rivers that flow...
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Rochester, NY 6:28 PM As much as it pains me to type it, summer and fall are over in Rochester. The first snow of the season fell today. Not a lot, nothing stuck. The white flakes fell from the sky for only 180 seconds, but it was there none the less. A warning that you better get out of the house and outdoors while you can. A warning that deer season is approaching or already here (I’m not a hunter, so I don’t know. I did sit next to guys at breakfast last week who were going to put deer stands up). A warning of what is to come; Cold. Time to shift the closet from short sleeve to...
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Ithaca, NY Fall has hit the northeast. For Rochester, that has meant cool days with not a lot of sunshine. It’s been hard to see my friend’s forecast down in Charlotte. This is the prime time of year for the south. 70’s and 80’s with vibrant sunshine makes golf and going to football games perfect. This weekend we had a heads up on them. I’ve been cooped up staring at grey skies and when the forecast said mid 60’s and sunny, I knew I had to get outside. I couldn’t spend another Saturday in front of the TV with college football and baseball playoffs. I had never been to Ithaca...
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Ohio 11:55 AM I just finished a phone interview with the president of a company in Ohio. His wife heard me on NPR a few weeks ago and set it up. The gist of the interview is something I am continually finding more interesting: What companies can do to motivate their employees. Who wouldn’t want to work for a company that actually cares about them? Who wouldn’t want to go to work every day fired up about what they are doing and who they’re doing it for? And on the company end, what company wouldn’t want to have their workforce engaged and working their butt’s off? So...
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