Post written by Mic Johnson,  Blog Coach | LinkedIn Trainer | WordPress Web Site Guy | Rational Optimist | Jayhawk | Sushi Lover | Cancer Volunteer NOTE: This article was first published on February 6th, 2013. I’ve made a few edits and plan to publish it every year at this time in honor of my Dad. […]

Post written by Mic Johnson, Blog Coach | LinkedIn Trainer | WordPress Web Site Guy | Rational Optimist | Jayhawk | Sushi Lover | Cancer Volunteer Why is honest communication so hard? My take: People allow their mind, ego and insecurities to get in the way of taking the road less traveled by. Then the fear of […]

Post written by Mic Johnson, Blog Coach | LinkedIn Trainer | WordPress Web Site Guy | Rational Optimist | Jayhawk | Sushi Lover | Cancer Volunteer You never know when inspiration might strike. Some of my best blog posts have come to me when I’m driving in my car or running around the track at the gym. […]

Post written by Jason Terry, Entrepreneur | Social Coach | Web Developer | Scuba Instructor | Guitar Player | Cruise Traveler | Lego Collector Wow.  It’s been an interesting three weeks since we got back from Vegas!  We had the usual catch up to do with emails and phone calls, but we also faced more […]

Post written by Mic Johnson, Blog Coach | LinkedIn Trainer | Social Coach | Rational Optimist | Jayhawk Fanatic | Sushi Addict | Cancer Volunteer In early October, Jason and I took our wives, Trista and Missy, to Las Vegas for four nights for the 1st Annual Blue Gurus Retreat! We wanted to get away for […]

Around 5 years ago, right as the Great Recession was picking up steam and the markets and world economy were in a tailspin, I was unemployed, sitting alone in the basement of my house, and had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do next in my career. I was scared. I was embarrassed. I […]

Post written by Mic Johnson, Blogger|LinkedIn Trainer|WordPress Content Guy|Social Coach|Rational Optimist|Jayhawk Fanatic|Cancer Volunteer “Life is a roller coaster. It goes up and it goes down. All we have to do is hang on.” – Mic Johnson I want to share a little story of how this blog post you’re reading came to be. I got up this […]

Post written by Mic Johnson, Blogger | LinkedIn Trainer | WordPress Content Guy | Social Coach | Rational Optimist | Jayhawk Fanatic | Cancer Volunteer In the last couple of weeks I’ve been faced with the death of the father of a very good friend of mine. His name was Ralph Butler and he was one of […]

Post written by Mic Johnson, Blogger|LinkedIn Trainer|WordPress Content Guy|Social Coach|Rational Optimist|Jayhawk Fanatic|Cancer Volunteer I posted the following on my Facebook page a few hours after the explosions at the Boston Marathon. It started as a simple post and then more and more thoughts and feelings started pouring out of me. I wanted to share it here and […]