I started teaching last week and in the first class I always rant about the process they will be going through. I emphatically and passionately make a plea for each student to approach the class with an open heart and an open mind.   If they are able to be vulnerable, each student will learn about themselves in their journey of building a business plan. It really becomes a process of personal growth which I'm grateful to be a part of.  

On Wednesday night I facilitated a "Boys Night Out".   Of course, we are no longer Boys, but we like to think of ourselves as such and maybe we act it at times.   In any case, we were an eclectic group of 6 guys (pictured). 4 from New York, one from New Orleans and one from Kentucky and, not coincidentally, 4 Liberals and 2 conservatives.  

Northwell Health, the largest health care provider in New York, ended its mask mandate the other day. This follows the lifting of mask mandates by most health care providers over the past few months and the end of mask requirements in general.Nevertheless, I put my mask in my back pocket this morning - as I have done for the past three years.

You know who you are, and we all have them.  At least, I wish for everyone to be blessed with those friends.  

Are you a delegator or a doer? Or a little bit of both?   We began discussing this last week at a committee meeting for a fundraiser for the Nassau County We Care Foundation. As expected, most people at the committee meeting said they’re doers.   I admit that I do not delegate work well. I always have to have my hands in everything. I find that the more I delegate the more I have to redo the work.  I guess that’s the “control freak” in me.

Is everyone a little Irish on St. Patrick’s Day?  

Yes...this is true.  At the World Baseball Classic, Italy’s dugout has an espresso machine.    Mike Piazza, a former Met, who plays for the Italian team said he was dissatisfied the coffee was being served in a paper cup and not a ceramic one.  

On Sunday morning I was awakened ultra early by a call from a friend alerting me that the water had been turned off in my neighborhood and advising I buy bottled water.   It got me thinking about water, our most taken for granted natural resource.  Pictured are some of the ways water benefits our body. Let's just say we can't live without it.   And because we can't live without it there was an immediate run on bottled water and soon the shelves were bare.