As a professional coach, speaker and trainer, I've often been asked about the availability of my books, tapes or videos. Don't have any, I say. I've been too busy training, speaking and coaching to write but I do plan to get around to it someday. p p Well someday arrived and I had to make good on that promise. I'd been making noises about writing something for so long someone it could have been my wife finally challenged me to do it. I think the exact words were something like put-up or shut-up And because I thought writing would be easier than not talking, I made my way to the keyboard, sketched out some ideas and began converting my thoughts to words. p p This is not a book in the traditional sense. Rather it's a collection of essays on topics that inspired the greatest interest andor response in my training or speaking sessions. p p What are these about Well, the unifying theme is best described by this quote from a speech Theodore Roosevelt gave at the Sorbonne in 1910 p p It is n