You've Been Framed

Acknowledgments

It was in the spring of 2003, as I recall, that Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach suggested to me that I consider building my own firm. Soon thereafter, he challenged me to write a book. Well, years later, I decided for myself that it was time. Thanks, Dan . . . for the freedom, the fun, and the challenge to think creatively, follow my unique ability, and make every day a positive focus. You helped me make this work possible.

There are many friends, colleagues, and neighbors who helped shape me as a human and as a professional.

Joan Weltz, may God rest her soul, taught me in the fourth and fifth grades at P.S. 79 in Whitestone, Queens, that it was okay to try new things and that even if I wasn’t great at something, I could learn and take risks. She gave me the confidence to know, even at a young age, that it was the adventures in life that brought great surprises—and that a move to Texas was BIG!

It was Mr. Bennett of J. J. Pearce High School who had such vision and figured out how to mobilize so many high school kids to show up at 0-dark-thirty—to shoe-polish marks on the parking lot to teach us how to march our way right onto that football field every Friday night and believe. He was also the guy who told me I couldn’t be the leader of the band. Whew! That was important.

Also to be remembered are the many professors at Baylor University who took such great care to make sure I made it, who supported me, who taught me lots of life lessons, and who helped make ...