by Rob Jolles | Aug 22, 2014 | Motivation, Self Help, success
I’m a superstitious guy. I won’t eat certain foods on certain days, I won’t hit a snooze bar, and I have a lucky tie I wear when delivering keynotes. If you hang around me long enough, you’ll hear me tell you why I do what I do. I’ll try to find logical reasons for...
by Rob Jolles | Aug 8, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help
They say opposites attract, and each morning, it’s on display in my house when the alarm goes off. My wife, Ronni, loves the snooze bar. She seems to look forward to not just tapping it or hitting it; when she goes for the snooze bar, she smacks it! It’s almost a...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 25, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help, success
When I was younger, I used to love to run. I started by running 10-kilometer races, and then I graduated to 10-milers, moved on to half marathons, and before I knew it, I was running marathons. People would ask me: “What’s it like training for a marathon?” I’d...
by Rob Jolles | Jul 11, 2014 | Public Speaking
Audiences come in all shapes, sizes… and moods. Some audiences are loud, some are pensive, and others are, well, dead. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of stepping in front of a room, opening with one of your best stories, analogies, or jokes, and watching it...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 27, 2014 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Self Help, success
Story #1… Last week, the travel Gods really stuck it to me good. I showed up at O’Hare airport at 6:00 pm, and I found out that my 7:00 pm flight back to National Airport was running thirty minutes late. This was due to thunderstorm activity. When I...
