Remember the scene in the movie Cars where Sally the Porsche explains to Lightning McQueen why Route 66 was so important in American History? She said something like, "People didn't drive on the road to make great time...they drove on the road to have a great time." 

In our fast-paced, way too busy, stressed out life-it can be so easy to not notice the people around us. Yet, doesn't it feel good when you find someone that you know, in a room full of strangers? Isn't there a sense of relief when you realize that you're not "alone" anymore, in that crowded room? 

In this video clip from my "It's a Wonderful Movie" presentation, I talk about the power of noticing people and why you should consider slowing down to have a great time, not just speed along from one task to another to make great time. 

On Monday (June 18) three hosts (Nick Cellini, Steak Shapiro, and Chris Dimino) of an Atlanta sports talk radio show aired a segment making fun of former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason. 

Now, a sports talk show making fun of a player is not really news...

However, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS in 2011. 

In a recent column in SportsIllustrated.com, that he wrote using his eyes, this is how Gleason described living with ALS:

"I am well into the disease progression. I am unable to walk, talk or eat. In some ways, this stage of the process is less frustrating than previous stages. I often feel normal. I forget that it's weird to eat through a tube or be in a wheelchair. Still, I can't deny that it's a struggle," he wrote.

Three seconds. That is the amount of time it takes for people you meet to draw their conclusions about you. After the initial meeting their experiences with you are often filtered through the prism of what they thought about you when you first met. 

If someone’s first impression of you is “What a jerk!” everything you do afterward will tend to reinforce that intial impression that you are a jerk, even if you’re not doing anything to be a jerk. So you need to win your customer over quickly! One of the quickest ways to make a great first impression in business, is to dress the part of a sucessful businessperson. 

So what should be in your closet? Let’s assume you’re building your wardrobe from scratch ...

A couple of days ago I received an email from one of my best friends and had a conversation with one of the residents who live at the community that I manage. My friend was lamenting on how he has not yet been able to find "the one".

I had told him how my weekend was composed of doing laundry, watering the yard, trying to tackle the items on the "honey do-list", spending time with my daughter and playing more than a few games of Yahtzee with my wife. He said that he hoped one day to be able to have weekends like this with a wife and family of his own.

A resident came in to tell me that she was leaving the community. She and her husband were divorcing and she wanted me to know. I had grown to know her and her husband during their residency and it saddened me to know that they had decided to divorce. She sadly said, "I'm tired of it being a one way street all the time, you know?"

On the one hand I have a friend who has spent years and a lot of effort to find "the one" and would do anything to find a wife and settle down, have two kids, a  dog, a minivan in the driveway, and a nice house with the white picket fence all around it.

And on the other, another marriage fades away with the people in it no longer able or willing to try and keep their love alive.

Why do we spend so much of our time and energy looking for love - only to find then find a million and a half ways to screw it up once we do find it? Why do we promise to treat love as a two way street...then choose to make it a one way street when we're on it?

What are your thoughts?