The Campaign Within

In The Campaign Within, Neil Giuliano shares in candid and revealing detail his long private journey from growing up a shy, self-doubting kid with a secret in an Italian-American Catholic family to making history as the first openly gay mayor of a U.S. city over 150,000 in population.

Over the weekend, I re-read Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom.  It's a true story about Mitch paying weekly visits to his old college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who is dying from Lou Gehrig's disease.

During these visits, Morrie passes on some wonderful life lessons from the perspective of a dying man.  At one point, he said, "Why do you think it's so important for me to hear other people's problems?  Don't I have enough pain and suffering of my own?

It was more years than I can remember that a Kalamazoo TV Station invited me to be a guest on their Memorial Day Program. I had no idea what to say  but finally I just sat down and remembered some of what went on in Korea when I was there and I wrote this.  I figured it was a miracle that I was alive and so grateful.  I met the producer and asked if he could show the Arlington Cemetery Grave markers and if he had a shot of troops in bunkers and if he might have a bugle call to open and close my remarks. He made it a wonderful production and as I left the studio, the lady there who ran the switchboard asked me what I'd done. They had so many calls that it crashed their system. A bit later my secretary sent it to the Purple Heart Magazine and they ran it. This happened over sixty one years ago but I can't forget it.

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Penny is now using the 3BaysGSA™ in her golf lessons to the delight of her students. "This is easy to use. Place the analyzer into the end of the grip; hit the ball and your student instantly sees on their phone -- club head speed, tempo, impact force, etc. 10,000 data points instantly; it is just amazing and fun," says Penny Pulz. "It's simple. It's easy. I just think it's simply the best."

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My wife was walking through a park the other day when she noticed a grandmother walking with her young granddaughter.  Instead of making the most of an opportunity to spend quality time with her granddaughter, this woman chattered away on her cell phone the whole time while completely ignoring her little granddaughter who trailed behind looking at the ducks swimming past them.  What a shame.  This could have been a precious moment--something both of them would remember the rest of their lives.  This woman could have used this opportunity to do the things that grandmothers typically do--pointing out plants, trees, flowers and butterflies.  She also could have engaged her granddaughter in a conversation and smelled some of the flowers with her.  But, instead she chose to talk on her cell phone which caused both of them to miss out on a wonderful opportunity.

I had a wonderful corporate date earlier this week and I was dressed in my seersucker Matlock jacket and I did some comedy on not being Andy Griffith and it was mostly fun but I started my program by doing a very poor imitation of the band Rare Earth celebrating their all time hit song with the lyrics that said, "I just want to celebrate, yeah, yeah.  Another day of living.  I just want to celebrate another day of life. And the world goes around and around and around and around.  And the meeting was a special Bar B Q luncheon with all the fixins to celebrate a really special safety record.  So often, in my long career as a professional speaker I was called in following a tragedy. I was always thrilled when some wonderful organizations brought me in just to celebrate the fact that all of their workers were whole and alive and able to celebrate another year of safe working.  The world needs more celebrations like this.  We need more occasions to celebrate life and it sure was a thrill for Almost Andy to join in then fun.

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