Your Impact

Million Dollar Question: 
How many lives will be positively
impacted by what you do?

As long as the answer is more than “just me”, you are already on the right path. The more lives you reach the more blessings you reap.

Former At-Risk Teen, Darrius Snow Wins Nickelodeon Award

I love waking up to this kind of news: An uplifting article about a 19-year old from Atlanta that is helping at-risk youth. He’s doing such an outstanding job that he caught the attention of Nick Cannon, Nickelodeon, and LeBron James.

Bankhead teen wins Nickelodeon award | ajc.com

NFL Star Helps Over 25 Inner City Teens Get to College

This is a cool article about how the Asomugha College Tour for Scholars (foundation of $45 million NFL star, Nnamdi Asomugha) helps Skid Row teens go to college.

NFL’s $45 million man helps Skid Row teen’s college dream – CNN.com

We like Facebook, but face to face is cool, too

It’s no secret that Millennials love Facebook, but believe it or not, according to a new report by The International Association of Business Communications, they actually prefer face to face communication with their boss. Good nugget of info.

Facebook vs. face-to-face communications: Which do younger folks prefer? – FP Posted

Letter To An MBA

Here’s a letter (article) that Jullien Gordon just fowarded to me. It’s got some good nuggets. He delivers a thought-provoking perspective on the positves and negatives of getting an MBA.

Letter To An MBA

Giving Youth the Gift of Sight

This past summer OneSight reached out and helped over 3000 Fresh Air children by making sure that every child who needed the gift of sight was screened.

The Fresh Air Fund

Duncan Nugget® #47: Focus on Your Strengths, Manage Your Weaknesses

One of the secrets of success is to constantly get better at what you do best and learn to manage or delegate when it comes to your weaknesses.

Focus on your strengths, manage your weaknesses.

Spend SOME of your time focusing on your weaknesses; spend MOST of your time focusing on your strengths.

In other words focus more on what you CAN do and less on what you can’t do. It’s not a question of “what’s wrong with you?”