Just arrived in Poughkeepsie New York as their featured Keynote Speaker for their annual United Way of Dutchess County Campaign Kickoff event held at the elegant Grandview Conference Center overlooking the Hudson Bay. A good friend and former classmate from Northeastern University advocated for me to be this year's speaker. It has been over 16 years since we have seen one another but he remembers my keynote address at Northeastern University like it was yesterday. Find something that you love to do and do it so well that people eventually pay you for it!
Tomorrow I will be sharing my testimony and strategy toward success that I like to call the P.O.W.E.R. of leadership. P.O.W.E.R. is an acronym which stand for:
P = Purpose and passion
O = Opportunity Chaser
W = Willingness to go solo
E = Enthusiastic Spirit and
R = Relationship Builder
I am very excited about tomorrow. It will be a great opportunity for me to share my life story and help turn the hearts of those who live in the Hudson Valley. Everyone that I have met has been very kind and this is a very special place to be...somehow, someway, I think I will be coming back - at least I hope so...