Marc Drizin

I Am Source AN OPEN LETTER TO MY SON, MAX. Source (n): anything or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Dear Max, I am Source. I’ve spent most of the last year trying to understand this concept while going through the Zarvos leadership development coaching I’ve been involved in since January.  [...]

All my life I have heard about the special bond between a mother and a daughter, not to the exclusion or detriment of sons, but it’s just “different” with women.  OK, I get it.  I always have, although with me, it’s fathers and sons.  I have two boys, go figure. These days, my boys are [...]

“extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one’s patience and goodwill to the limit” Not exactly the definition I thought I would find first, but fitting. I’m tired of “trying” That was the original title of this blog, but as is often the case in life, where you thought you were headed doesn’t always come [...]

Roi, a 1993 song by The Breeders in their album Last Splash Roi Et and Roi Et province in Thailand Roi Klein, an Israeli Defense major Roi-Namur, an island in the Marshall Islands “Le Roi” (French for “the King”), a nickname for French basketball player Antoine Rigaudeau USS Roi (CVE-103), a US war ship Answer… [...]

Are you sick of highly paid teachers? Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes and causing states to default on their debt.  Worse yet, they only work 9 or10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do – babysit! We can get that for less than [...]

Some days are really good, some days are really really good.  Some days are just amazing, even before 10:00 a.m. Today has been amazing. I’ve been working hard to increase my social media presence as it relates to my dream manager business and me and Carla’s new company, Vibrant Life.  I’ve been working with a [...]

Look before you leap. I’ve never really been good at that part of life.  I’m a leaper. But that is what makes life an adventure, never really being sure of where you are, what you are doing next, and what is in store for your future. As 2011 approaches, more changes are occurring in my [...]

Are you living your dreams?  What are you waiting for? Ten days before he died, my seventy-seven year old dad asked me those two questions, and in a blink of an eye, my life completely changed. Although I didn’t understand the importance of that last lunch we had together at his nursing home in Cincinnati [...]

Here I sit in my hotel room.  Beautiful, sunny, warm, and yes, breezy Scottsdale Arizona. My wife is on the balcony “reading”, however I’ll give her another ten minutes and I bet I hear her snoring. We’re here for the next three days at Camp NSA 2010.  NSA is the National Speakers Association, and I’m [...]

What a week. Lots of news, but two things in particular struck my fancy… and both related to the rights of an employer to help their employees graduate out of their company. First, the Juan Williams firing by NPR after nearly a decade in their employ. Juan was on the Bill O’Reilly show the other [...]