A few years ago, I was attending a health and wellness convention in Los Angeles. By the end of this four-day event, I had listened to over 20 speakers, attended five workshops, and had filled up six spiral notebooks with valuable information.

Once, while being interviewed on a talk show, Oprah Winfrey was asked what she believed was the most important life skill to possess. After thinking for a brief moment, she smiled and said, the ability "to leave the front porches of our lives."

After my book, The 15 Second Principle, was published, I realized that in the process of writing it, I had become a hermit. And to end my self-imposed solitary confinement, I decided to get back into the world of public speaking by presenting the material in my book to companies and organizations.

A long time ago I gave up purchasing tickets for rock concerts. Because I never know whether or not I’m going to be in town and in a musical state of mind, I wait until the day of the event to see how I’m feeling. And, if I’m home and in the mood, I drive to the venue and always find a single ticket (even when the event is "sold out.") This was the exact approach I used when I decided to see Sting perform at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles many moons ago.

A few years ago, I developed what I considered to be a very empowering course to help people realize their cherished goals. I called it Becoming the CEO of Your Dream.