By Janelle on April 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
Reigning Virtuoso of the Violin
Classic violinist Itzhak Perlman, world renowned as the reigning virtuoso of the violin, can bring you to tears with his perfected technique and joy of music as he plays. His honors and awards are so numerous, that I can only tell you about a few of them.
He has appeared with every major orchestra in the world.
Perlman has received four Emmy Awards.
Two presidents have bestowed him with special honors. He received the “Medal of Liberty” in 1986 by President Reagan and the “National Medal of Arts” by President Clinton in 2000.
In 1994 millions saw him when he hosted the U.S. broadcast of the Three Tenors, Encore! Live from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
One of his most memorable achievements was his collaboration with film score composer John Williams in the Academy Award winning movie Schindler’s List, in which he performed the violin solos.
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By Janelle on April 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
How Far Does Influence Go?
Charlton Heston, one of America’s finest actors, died April 5th at age 84. The power of his influence has affected me since I was a child. He was known for starring in several epics and won the 1959 best actor Oscar for his infamous chariot-race in Ben-Hur.
His most memorable movie for me was Cecil B. DeMille’s, The Ten Commandments. Watching Heston portray Moses, who received the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai, had a remarkable visual impact on my religious upbringing. His portrayal of leading the Israelites through the Red Sea has long reminded me of how God can do the impossible.
Heston’s publicist, Michael Levine, who represented Heston for 20 years said, “The passing of Heston represented the end of an iconic era for cinema.” Heston’s chiseled face and sonorous voice represented a presence of power that was magnificent to witness. Levine said, “If Hollywood had a Mt. Rushmore, Heston’s face would be on it.”
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By Janelle on March 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Price of a Relationship
How much money would you be willing to walk away from to preserve a relationship?
$5 thousand? $50 thousand, $500 thousand? How about $1 million? Half a billion? To what lengths would you go to hold onto a relationship?
It may sound like an unrealistic question, but today I’m going to tell you about a person who did choose relationship over money.
Our “Winner” series has been fun this month. The term winner is used to describe people. We hear comments like, “She acts like a winner.” Or, “A winner takes it all.” There are a thousand ways to say it, but we all want to be that winner. Go back to the first of March and catch the entire series, There’s a Winner in All of Us.
Know When to Walk Away
Back to the mystery person who willfully walked away to preserve her relationship with her father. Her name is Tori Spelling, actress best known for her role on Beverly Hills, 90210. Her father was Aaron Spelling, recently deceased TV producer. He was listed in the Guinness Book of Records in 1999 as the world’s most prolific producer of television drama. At that point in time, according to the Guinness record, he had produced 3,842 hours of television–enough to fill about 3½ years of prime time seven nights a week without any reruns. In his lifetime, he amassed a wealth of at least ½ billion dollars. Some say perhaps a billion.
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By Janelle on March 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Wheels Up, Wheels Down, Wheels Off
Once again airport travel was an experience to remember. While walking through the Atlanta Airport, I was about to get over losing my neck pillow and the lens falling out of my new pair of glasses, when the airport delivered my ballistic nylon, indestructible roller bag with not only a missing wheel, but the entire wheel housing gone.
During March we have been talking about the qualities of a winner, but I confess that I was so self-focused with negative things happening to me, that I almost forgot I was a winner.
Looking Beyond Yourself
While I waited in line to go through security to catch the next flight, a fragile, silver-haired woman in front of me slowly shuffled bags back and forth across the conveyor belt. She didn’t notice she was holding up a long line of impatient travelers backed up behind me. She was trying to handle her bags while helping a blind man in his late 30’s in front of her. He must have been a close relative the way she hovered over him.
I stood there for a short time staring at her, watching her helpless motions, until I could stand it no longer.
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By Janelle on March 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
Position Yourself As a Winner
As we are talking about the qualities of a winner, be sure to go back to Part 1 and Part 2 of my blogs, There’s a Winner in All of Us.
Part 1, What It Takes to Be a Winner, gives you an example of an ordinary person who made winning qualities work for her. Part 2, Having a Winning Attitude, gives a unique perspective of the power of persuasion. Today we are talking about how to position yourself as a winner.
Jerold Panas, an executive partner of one of America’s leading fundraising firms and author of several books, tells about an article he read in National Geographic
on barnacles. “The barnacle,” said the article, “is confronted early on with a decision about where it is going to live. Once it decides that, it spends the rest of its life with its head permanently cemented to a rock.”
Apparently that works for the barnacle. I tried to peel one off a rock, and it wouldn’t budge. It had amazing sticking power. The first step toward positioning yourself as a winner is to select your position.
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