Elevator Guy

NOVEMBER 6, 2020 Just for some context, it is October 29, 2020 (“Back to the Future”) as I write next week’s Elevator Guy remarks to come out on November 6th. It is an election year and a year that has challenged our country, state, communities, and the world. All sides are out trying to influence […]

OCTOBER 30, 2020 It is now officially the end of five years (Wow! Where did the time go?) since yours truly began writing things down through the Elevator Guy remarks. My original intent of writing down these weekly remarks, was a reminder to my kids, grandkids, and all of my UNICO associates and friends, in

OCTOBER 23, 2020 We have often talked about what success is and what is success isn’t. Success to others, should not be YOUR success. (But continue to ROOT for them anyway!) Success is something that YOU have to define for yourself and no one can do it for you. Success can mean a lot of

OCTOBER 16, 2020 “People inspire me. It is up to me to get motivated” Deep inside me and like many of you, I have always been motivated to succeed. Of course, one must define for themselves their meaning of success and their motivational level. (Make sure your ladder is parked on the right castle before

OCTOBER 9, 2020 Friendship is a close association between two people marked by feelings of care, concern, and even love. I pray each of you have lots of friends that you care about and that care about you. (Jesus cares about you so maybe you can make him your best friend) There are many types

OCTOBER 2, 2020 I often reflect on that fateful day of September 11, 2001, when United Airlines Flight 93 became the only one of four planes not to hit its target. (assumed to be either the Capitol or the White House) The plane took off 40 minutes late from Newark airport headed for San Francisco.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 I am certain many of you have heard the old saying, “Practice makes perfect.” Well, I don’t believe in perfect even though I may say it all of  the time. I say it to mean that, “for now, it is an improvement or it is OK.” We all need to continue growing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 We have talked before about some of the habits from Steven Covey’s “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” Given the politically charged times we are living in today, I thought I would pontificate a little more as to the time tested habit #5. “Seek First to Understand, Then be Understood.” As Covey points out,

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 We are closing in on five years of weekly remarks both as the CRO (Chief Reminder Officer) and Elevator Guy. Now that I am officially in retirement, my heart yearns to add more value to all of you (and others) so I wanted to talk more about coaching. In college, I got

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 The 1994 movie “Forrest Gump” is one of my favorite of all time. Watching Tom Hanks in earlier comedy roles was all I needed to follow along with empathy as a simple-minded but good-hearted person (Forrest) becomes involved in historically significant events by chance. Forrest is your perfect hero. Someone who knows