by Artie Isaac | Feb 23, 2013 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics, Unsolicited Suggestions
A 2011 Net Cotton Content post on tattoo attracted more reader comments than any other post. (Later "This Old Heart" broke that record.) With regard to tattoos, here is the original post, "Skin Deep." When I speak with anyone under 90 on the...
by Artie Isaac | Jan 28, 2013 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life
Last week's Think Big conference in Dallas inspired this speech today to Columbus Rotary. ✍ On Mentoring Before I start, a quick note about technology. Your smartphones, your iPads — I'd like you to turn them on. Not off. On. You see: I come from the...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 3, 2012 | Living an engaged life
Greetings from Ohio. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the Presidential election isn’t my main cause. I understand that it’s very important — and I have registered approximately 100 people — and I will vote — and I ask you to vote — and I am not undecided...
by Artie Isaac | Oct 28, 2012 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
What is it, nine days? Nine days before we — as a nation — make our biggest decision of the year. Zealots say: "the biggest decision of our lives." (Zealots are sometimes right.) As a recovering marketer, I can't help but see this in clinical terms. Like...
by Artie Isaac | Oct 14, 2012 | Living an engaged life
Did you watch the recent political debate? Did you see yesterday's football game on television? I didn't. And I'm better off for it. Here is an argument for not aggravating yourself. It starts with a story about lunch with my old colleague,...
by Artie Isaac | Sep 15, 2012 | It happened, Living an engaged life
What do you ask someone you have just met? How can you ask a question that will get to the essence? Of course, if you want idle chitchat, you can ask a question about something else: the weather, that tree over there, the painting on the wall. They aren't...
