I am a reader, writer, author, listener, and seeker of knowledge. I ponder books, art, authors, music, poetry, service, kindness, and most of all, "people." These influences help us form our identity, change it, or even reinvent it as we go through life.
I have spent my career as an entrepreneur and a business executive, working with companies and employee groups of various sizes, some large ones. I successfully built my own company from an idea to a functioning business. For 22 years, it was a strong sales company covering 15 Western States and helping hundreds of companies grow their business.
As an employed top manager, I helped build several independent and corporate companies and helped bring about significant progress in their growth. The people always made a difference in results and made my efforts rewarding. Those years presented me with some excellent teaching and learning opportunities. They confirmed my belief that people can reshape themselves as they rethink their actions and lives. People want to learn. They are not just programmed to be what they always have been and will grow and rise according to their opportunities.
This website, “Connected Events Matter,” is an effort to explore the influences from our lifetime connections and how they change and impact our development and identity. The impact is ongoing and is always life-altering.
We have both a physical and spiritual self-image. We have our intellectual growth. As we look at our experiences and grow with them, we give purpose to our lives.
Reading and the Arts have a significant influence on our growth. This blog will look closely at these influences and present relevant book reviews. The events in our lives connect us, and we are connected.
Be passionate about improving. Be passionate about helping others. Listen to your feelings.