SAX IN THE MORNING

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. At times we probably all wish to be more productive at work. If you search out books and blogs on how to be more productive you will find any number of ideas. I did just that and I wanted to share five simple tips to make you more productive that come from the University of Alabama’s business school.  T...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I’m talking about the importance of showing up for the jobs you agreed to do, whether that’s in your career or at home or with friends. There is nothing more important than showing your gratitude for the people and opportunities in your life than just showing up.  In the NBA and other sports this...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I am talking about the importance of silence. There is now doubt that there are lots of amazing things about living in our modern world. Access to information, entertainment, tremendous conveniences, but one of the drawbacks is the noise!  Both literal noise from sirens, car horns, planes, tv, rad...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week I am talking all about the practices and characteristics in life that can bring us peace and well being. I went through the 5 conditions to create well being or PERMA on Monday and Tuesday.  Positive emotions Engagement Relationships (healthy ones) Meaning Accomplishments But there is more to...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Yesterday I talked about some tips to well-being outlined in the field of positive psychology. Today I am covering the last three letters in the 5 conditions that lead to well-being known as PERMA.  Yesterday I talked about P ositive emotions and E ngagement. Today I will cover the other three: the RMA...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week I’m talking about the secrets to a feeling of well-being. The good news about this is you can achieve it and it’s all based on psychological research.  The field of positive psychology is not only dedicated to helping those with mental health conditions but to anyone suffering from the human c...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Being stuck inside due to winter weather is a great time to take those extra hours and get yourself ready for new career opportunities.  Here are four tips for you to use to prepare for those future opportunities:  Look back at missed opportunities and see where you went wrong and what you should have d...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I give three tips to use the downtime in the winter to get ready mentally and physically for positive changes in your life.  When you are stuck inside because of the cold and the snow there is a lot of mental preparation you can do to get ready for your life. Visualize opportunities, meditate or r...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Spring training is just getting started and many of us are still hunkered down from a winter of bad weather, so I thought this week would be a great time to talk about how to use down time to prepare ourselves for future opportunities.  When I look back at my spring training experiences it was a time to...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This Friday is National Random Acts of Kindness Day and so I wanted to talk about the importance of practicing acts of kindness in our lives.  And this isn’t something that you should just focus on one day, this should be a way of life for all of us. As I researched ideas for random acts of kindness I f...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. It’s Valentine’s Day and what a great opportunity to remind those in our lives how much we love them.  I thought today would be a great day to share some recent published findings about the world’s longest study on happiness. Dr. Robert Waldinger, who has been directing the Harvard study of adult develo...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. February is Heart Health Awareness Month and so given this is an issue that has touched me very personally I wanted to talk about the importance of heart health. You might have heard this before but heart disease is the number killer of men and women in America.  So let's just review really quickly...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Do you ever get that sense of peace and wonder while watching a sunset, or at a National Park or even just looking down over a city while on a plane? Well, it turns out that feeling of awe may actually be good for our physical and mental health.  Today I share some findings from the Greater Good Science...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. We all have negative thoughts sometimes, it’s natural, it’s human, it can even push us forward. But it’s also easy for a negative thought to breed another and another and before you know it you’re mired in a negative way of thinking about everything.  You can’t be positive all the time, but returning to...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I am talking about that all too common evil in many of our lives and that’s procrastination. Some studies estimate that nearly 20% of adults suffer from chronic procrastination.  Procrastination affects all aspects of our lives whether it’s work or relationships. Constantly being late even falls i...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. I’ve talked about the power of laughter the last two days and today I am talking about how laughter can actually be good for your career. How? Well first the obvious. The person with a warm and funny sense of humor is going to be well liked and the person who is well liked is going to get ahead at work....

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Yesterday I talked about the health benefits of laughter and today I want to talk about the its benefits to relationships. Wanna find a hot date? Make sure you have a sense of humor as most people rate that as more important than looks, money or sex drive.  Wanna have a long marriage? You’d better have...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week I am talking all about laughter. It may seem obvious that we all love to laugh but it’s also one of those things that you have to make sure you make happen regularly in your life. Sometimes you are just in situations which make you laugh but we all need to find space for laughter in our lives....

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. After two days of inspiring stories of people changing careers, today I give out some tips for how to prepare for that process yourself. I cover things like evaluating your values and skills and conducting informational interviews.  You can make a shift in your life starting today. People change careers...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. I am talking all about taking that scary step to change careers this week and today I wanted to flood you with hope by sharing some amazing stories of people’s success.  Did you know a famous actor once worked as the hair and makeup person at a funeral parlor? Another person took their love of paranorma...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week I’m talking all about making big changes in your career. Today I wanted to share an amazing story of a guy going from world-class athlete to world-class doctor. A shift that not many people make but it’s an amazing story to get you motivated to make your own change.  Eric Heiden is best known...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. I sat down with Sean Salisbury to talk about many of our favorite Sax in the Morning themes, compassion, service, adversity and mentorship.  Sean played for five NFL teams, was a star at USC and became best known as an analyst of ESPN. But hard times came to Sean and his career and he found himself at a...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. There’s a quote by the management consultant W. Edwards Deming that goes like this: “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” Basically that means in our personal lives, in our homes and in our business lives, the results we are getting are the result of systems that we have set u...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I wanted to talk a little bit about imposter syndrome and how one of the best sports stories going right now shows how amazing belief in yourself, your abilities and your success can be.  Brock Purdy, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers just won his first playoff game. This is a guy who starte...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day and so in lieu of our typical podcast I thought we would just take the time on today’s show to celebrate the contributions and sacrifice of M.L.K. and appreciate the improvements for all of us living in 2023 thanks to his talent, vision, courage and hard work.  Visit...