If you were to ask the average person what they knew about Winston Churchill, they would more than likely mention his famous speech in which he said, “Never give up.”

Here’s a brief bio and an interesting fact about that famous speech.

• Winston Churchill was a British politician, statesman and orator known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the WWII. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He also served as Prime Minister twice 1940-45 and 1951-55. He passed away in 1965 at the age of 91.
• Concerning his speech … it was reported that he delivered his inspiring message to the boys of his old school, Harrow, in 1941 and the entire text of his speech consisted of five short sentences built around his advice that you should “never give up.” It was commonly reported that he supposedly spoke for less than a minute and immediately sat down.

Actually, that was a myth that has been recorded in many history books over the years. In reality, his speech was much longer than reported, and his actual phrase was “never give in” as opposed to “never give up.”

Regardless, it was excellent advice which has been heeded by many over the decades.

In the midst of today’s chaotic turmoil, no one has to be told that times are tough. On the other hand, everyone should be encouraged to “never give in.” We, as parents, grandparents, leaders, etc., have a responsibility to educate, encourage, support and even model this classic message.

Let me tell you about another legendary gentleman who shares this critical philosophy of “never give in.”

This celebrated musician lost his sight at the tender age of six years old. This tragedy left him devastated … feeling lost, alone and totally abandoned. He could visualize no future at all. His mother did her best to support, encourage and console him. However, his fear of the unknown kept him in a constant state of terror.

Watching her son waste away led his mother to make a statement that inspired the young boy and eventually change his life forever. She said, “Son, you have lost your sight and nothing can change that. There are things you can’t do. But there are lots of things you can do. You have a creative mind. Find something you enjoy and stick with it, no matter what.”

Following his mother’s advice, he thought about what he really wanted to do with his life. He had always dreamed of becoming a recording star so he would practice playing the piano and singing every day.

Sadly, he was discouraged at every turn. Friends, neighbors, teachers, and even other family members discouraged him and suggested that he find another way to support himself. They made it clear that he would never play the piano or sing well enough to earn a living.

However, he remembered his mother’s words and refused to quit. He remained focused on his goal and practiced different techniques, different styles and different melodies that would fit him. Many times he cried himself to sleep as a result of the rude remarks which haunted him. However, his mother was always there reminding him that he must never give up.

Ultimately his perseverance paid off.

Later in his life, he received countless awards for his music, including 12 Grammies. He performed before millions of people including Presidents and heads of state. His unique musical style has made a lasting imprint on all forms of popular music over the past 50 years. He credited his success to his mother’s words which remained in the back of his mind until the day he died. He wouldn’t listen to the negative influences in his life and refused to quit. His name: Ray Charles.

The next time someone tells you to forget your dream, remember this young boy’s mother who wouldn’t let him “give in” and the Prime Minister who inspired an entire country with the same message. Is there someone in your life that would benefit from hearing that message from you? It could very well make a crucial difference in their lives.

If your dream is something that you REALLY want, don’t let anything stop you until you achieve it!

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

I know it may seem early for this advice, but everything else has been early this year. We saw Santa arrive at our local mall two weeks before Thanksgiving this year. In addition, Black Friday lost its impact as so many stores began offering their holiday specials even earlier by staying open all day Thanksgiving Day.

If that’s any indication of things to come, we should probably be giving serious thought to our New Year’s resolutions. Your list for the coming year will more than likely include something that will assist you in your efforts to cope with the many challenges which will appear in 2011.

Everywhere you look today there are problems. Turn on your TV or computer, pick up a magazine or paper, and what do you see? Problems! Talk to your family, co-workers, clients or friends, and within minutes someone will bring up a challenge they’re current facing … or two or three. Problems seem to be out of control as we approach the end of another year. We see them with products, services, health care, retirement plans, sales, marketing, budgets, IT, personnel, politics, customer service … a growing list that is indeed vast.

One strategy which seems to have proven very successful for many individuals and organizations is almost too simplistic to believe. That’s probably why so many have chosen to overlook it. In today’s trying times, it may very well be wise to give it a second look.

It’s called “Pink Bat Thinking,” and it emphasizes the importance of looking at things from a completely different angle. In essence, learn to use your imagination to look at a problem as an opportunity in order to create a solution.

You probably remember this strategy as something you’ve heard many times: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!”

In essence, the lesson of the Pink Bat comes down to the following: “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” In other words, use your imagination to look at a problem as an opportunity to create a solution.

History provides us with example after example of this strategy proving to be successful. Consider: Charles Schultz of Peanuts fame, Barbara Walters, Grandma Moses, Walt Disney, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Monaghan (Dominos), Ray Kroc (McDonalds), Fred Smith (FedEx), Wilma Rudolph (athlete), Sylvester Stallone (Rocky), J.K. Rowlings (Harry Potter) and Helen Keller. The list goes on and on.

Take a closer look at this “Pink Bat Thinking” … it may very well make a major difference for you in the coming year. Michael McMillan’s video will give you an overview in a very unusual, but artistic, performance.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

Well, it’s Thanksgiving once again. How time flies! When this season rolls around annually, I find myself often reflecting back on Thanksgivings past … back to the smells, the sounds, and the memories that will last forever.

I remember, as a grade-schooler, standing in the gymnasium … half of us dressed in headbands and feathers and the other half wearing pilgrim hats and collars made of heavy construction paper held together with our favorite edible paste. My classmates and I did our best to warble the sweet sounds of our annual favorite hymn, “We Gather Together.” It always brought tears to my eyes. It wasn’t really a religious hymn, but it certainly felt like it. To this day, I remember every word.

“We Gather Together”

We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
He chastens and hastens His will to make known;
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing,
Sing praises to His name: He forgets not his own.

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine
So from the beginning the fight we were winning;
Thou, Lord, wast at our side, All glory be thine!

We all do extol thee, thou leader triumphant,
And pray that thou still our defender wilt be.
Let thy congregation escape tribulation;
Thy name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!

Back in those days, I was under the impression that we, as Americans, had been celebrating Thanksgiving since the first meeting between our Pilgrims and Native Americans. Like so many others, I commonly believed that the first Thanksgiving happened in 1621 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and has continued to our present celebrations.

However, I was surprised to discover that the official celebration of this popular holiday involved several of our Presidents and the persistence of a popular female magazine editor from Boston. Paul Harvey explains it best in one of his “Rest of the Story” classics which you can hear via this link.

In the meantime, from all of us at the AchieveMax® company of speakers to all of you and your families … have a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration and enjoy each and every minute of it!

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

I have the unique opportunity to travel to New York City quite frequently. I’ve been doing it for some time now. In fact, I once lived in the heart of the city so I’m used to the substantial numbers of people who work there daily. As I walk among the masses on those animated sidewalks, I often marvel at the potential converged in such close quarters.

The mental capacity found on one street in the Big Apple, or any major city for that fact, could resolve most of the problems we’re currently experiencing across this country. The sad fact emerges when you realize that most of those people have no idea of their own potential! My work has allowed me to witness some extraordinary creativity and innovation evolve from people who had no idea they were capable of such thinking!

Did you realize that you have the capacity between your ears to store more information that can be stored in dozen’s of man’s most sophisticated computers? In fact, you can store more data than you will find in the millions of volumes in the Library of Congress!

Scientists claim that if man were to attempt to create a human brain, it would cost billions of dollars, would be larger than the Empire State Building and would require more electricity than a city of tens of thousands!

Its construction would involve the most brilliant men in the world and yet with all of this size, cost, and power requirements, this man-made brain couldn’t originate a single thought, which YOU can do in the flash of an eye! Your remarkable mind brings 72 muscles into perfect coordination each time you utter a single word!

Review what I’ve shared in the last three paragraphs and realize that I’ve been describing YOU. Now consider the number of people working and living around you who possess that same potential. You and those around you are each remarkable with more than enough capability to attain the success you desire!

Our major challenge lies in the need to recognize, accept, and harness the valuable potential we each possess. It’s the age old matter of closing the knowing-doing gap. Education, experience, and networking mean little if not focused on an action plan to achieve the success you desire. The world is filled with those possessing tremendous potential while tapping so little, if any, of it. Are you focused on closing that critical gap. If not, do something about it … and soon!

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

I’ve always been amazed at how many things I learned years ago continue to manifest themselves again and again. Universal truths, sometimes regardless of their simplicity, have a tendency to do just that.

Early in my career, I was fortunate to discover the wisdom of authors and speakers such as Earl Nightingale, Zig Ziglar, Denis Waitley, Wayne Dyer, Robert Schuller and so many others who contributed to my foundational beliefs. Basic wisdom and truths I learned at that time are still being practiced and proven to this day. The lessons have been passed on by a new generation of messengers … but the messages have passed the test of time.

For instance, I remember learning that “The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.” The example used to illustrate this truth was a simple bar of iron. Use it as a door stop, and it’s worth a couple of dollars. If used in the production of horseshoes, the value of that same bar increases to about $50. Remove the impurities, refine it into fine steel and create mainsprings for precision watches, and it’s worth a quarter of a million dollars!

It all depends on how you view that simple bar of iron. The same theory holds true in how you view yourself and your future. It’s critical that we establish major goals accompanied by deadlines. This requires preparation and a plan which leads to action. This formula is necessary regardless of your personal choices in life.

Sadly, goal setting is seldom taught in school, and in the few instances that it is shared, it’s done so sparingly! On a more positive note, we’ve been receiving increased interest from the business community in our goal-setting seminar, “On Your Mark, Get Set, Goal!” Apparently more and more leaders understand the importance of every employee knowing the critical steps of setting goals.

To insure future success … research, read, or attend a seminar to learn exactly how goal setting can and will impact your future in a more positive way.

This short video may inspire you to enhance your efforts to set the goals that will provide your desired success.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

There are times when negativity descends upon us like the evening dew and consistently bad news weighs heavily on all of us. Then, unexpectedly, something happens that quickly and quietly restores your faith in the world we live in.

That happened to me last week. It was Veterans Day, and I couldn’t help but
notice that everyone seemed to be well aware of it—much more so than
in years past.

You could see it and hear it everywhere … radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, billboards, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Everyone seemed to be showing support and appreciation to our military “Heroes and She-roes” … both past and present.

That day I received an unexpected phone call from an old friend I haven’t heard from in years. We chatted for a while, and he suggested that we meet at one of our local Applebee’s Restaurants as they were providing free meals for Veterans in honor of the holiday.

I seldom get the opportunity to do something “spur-of-the-moment” like that, and I hadn’t seen my friend for ages so I agreed to meet him.

Walking into that restaurant was like entering the “Twilight Zone.” I’ve never seen anything quite like it. The free meal was nice, of course, as Applebee’s provides a terrific offering and the ambiance is uniquely ‘hometown.”

However, today was different. The place was packed, and I recognized no one other than my old friend. However, I felt as though I actually knew everyone in the restaurant. My friend and I quickly caught up on old times and suddenly found ourselves totally immersed in our surroundings.

What we witnessed was heartwarming and almost indescribable. Veterans were getting up from their seats to introduce themselves to other Veterans. Some in uniform … most in civies. They were shaking hands, hugging, and chatting as though they had known one another forever … even though they had just met.

Civilians were approaching Veterans and shaking their hands as they thanked them for their service … some even hugged the Veterans with tears in their eyes.

The waiters, waitresses, and bartenders were hurriedly seating and serving everyone and yet took the time to treat customers as though this was a very special day to honor very special people … and it was just that!

I must admit that this was one of those rare “lump in the throat,” “tears in the eyes,” “warmth in the heart” moments that so quickly changes your entire outlook on life.

We were there less than an hour, but the memory will last forever. I shared some quality time with a fellow Veteran I haven’t seen for far too long … I watched a community of strangers come together as a family obviously blinded to prejudice of any kind … I saw warm smiles and heard friendly laughter as everyone seemed to easily forget negative thoughts of the economy, politics, joblessness, and the many other aspects of our current distress.

For a few precious moments, there was no age difference, no skin color, no religion, no politics, no ethnicity … just proud Americans sharing respect, support and appreciation … and loving every minute of it!

I shared a final hug with my friend, promised him we’d do this again soon, and, as we walked to our cars, wondered why every day couldn’t be like Veterans Day, 2010. My thanks to Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar for accomplishing something in one afternoon that our government hasn’t been able to accomplish in quite some time.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

Oxymoronic? Not in the least. I’ve accomplished a great deal as a result of my intelligent ignorance, and I’ve witnessed many others do the same time and time again.

Driven by desire, intelligent ignorance is the characteristic or capability of not knowing what you can’t do, and doing it anyway.

Mary Kay Ash probably explained it best in her classic explanation of the fact that the bumblebee can’t fly. Scientific evidence states that the bumblebee’s body is far too heavy and his wings are far too light. Aerodynamically, it is an impossibility for the bumblebee to fly. However, the bumblebee doesn’t read and therefore does fly!

Some may equate these shortcomings to that of a lemon, but the bumblebee certainly transformed them into lemonade!

Historically, Charles Kettering had a rather unusual lemon in the form of a broken arm. Many years ago he was cranking his car and it “kicked” him unexpectedly. For the younger generation, that means the crank on his car didn’t disengage, jerked sharply as a cylinder began firing and turned the crank rather than the crank turning the engine. The sudden lurch broke Kettering’s arm.

What did he do? First, he grabbed his arm in pain. However, he then immediately thought: “This is a dangerous thing to happen while you’re cranking your car. An easier, better, safer way to start engines must be developed or the masses simply won’t want to own an automobile.”

As a result, he invented the “self-starter.” The rest is history. His lemon, a broken arm, became our lemonade.

Don’t let anyone tell you something can’t be done. Anyone can do that. You be the one to show that it can be done.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

I recently received an e-mail containing a very touching story. It came from a close friend of mine who had received it from his uncle. As soon as I started reading it, I recognized it as a favorite I read several times before. Upon completion, I realized why it had become one of my favorites. It was a great “feel-good” story that always brightens one’s day.

Later that evening I passed it on to another friend to enjoy. I quickly received a note back explaining that while he enjoyed it as well, he had learned via the Internet that this story was an urban legend. It was such a great story that I decided to look into it.

I went to Snopes.com … officially the Urban Legends Reference Pages. This is a web site that discusses urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of uncertain origin. It receives about 300,000 hits per day. It’s been around since 2005 and has a pretty good record of tracing the origins of most anything you might find online.

Within a few minutes, I learned that this story has appeared under several titles including “Just Lunch,” “Act of Kindness,” “The Sack Lunches,” and “An Unforgettable Flight.” Their research discovered that the story has been circulating since August 2008 and has been published in a number of magazines. There has apparently been a couple of versions telling the story with both a religious message as well as an attempt of simple appreciation for our military.

The story is attributed to an author living in Wood Dale, Illinois, but they have yet to be able to locate him.

I guess my personal feeling is simple. I don’t care if it’s true. It’s a very touching story of what I would like to believe is true of any citizen living in this terrific country. It made me feel good, hopeful, and appreciative. In this day and age, what more could one ask for? See what you think by reading it below. If you share my appreciation of a heart-warming story, pass it on. I can’t think of too many people who couldn’t use a “feel-good” story today. Enjoy.

The Sack Lunches

I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight. “I’m glad I have a good book to read. Perhaps I will get a short nap,” I thought.

Just before take-off, a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all the vacant seats, totally surrounding me. I decided to start a conversation.

“Where are you headed?” I asked the soldier seated nearest to me.

“Petawawa, we’ll be there for two weeks for special training, and then we’re being deployed to Afghanistan.”

After flying for about an hour, an announcement was made that sack lunches were available for five dollars. It would be several hours before we reached the east, and I quickly decided a lunch would help pass the time …

As I reached for my wallet, I overheard a soldier ask his buddy if he planned to buy lunch. “No, that seems like a lot of money for just a sack lunch. Probably wouldn’t be worth five bucks. I’ll wait till we get to base.”

His friend agreed.

I looked around at the other soldiers. None were buying lunch. I walked to the back of the plane and handed the flight attendant a fifty-dollar bill. “Take a lunch to all those soldiers.” She grabbed my arms and squeezed tightly. Her eyes wet with tears, she thanked me. “My son was a soldier in Iraq; it’s almost like you are doing it for him.”

Picking up ten sacks, she headed up the aisle to where the soldiers were seated. She stopped at my seat and asked, “Which do you like best—beef or chicken?”

“Chicken,” I replied, wondering why she asked. She turned and went to the front of plane, returning a minute later with a dinner plate from first class.

“This is your thanks.”

After we finished eating, I went again to the back of the plane, heading for the rest room.

A man stopped me. “I saw what you did. I want to be part of it. Here, take this.” He handed me twenty-five dollars.

Soon after I returned to my seat, I saw the Flight Captain coming down the aisle, looking at the aisle numbers as he walked. I hoped he was not looking for me, but noticed he was looking at the numbers only on my side of the plane. When he got to my row he stopped, smiled, held out his hand and said, “I want to shake your hand.” Quickly unfastening my seatbelt I stood and took the Captain’s hand. With a booming voice he said, “I was a soldier and I was a military pilot. Once, someone bought me a lunch. It was an act of kindness I never forgot.” I was embarrassed when applause was heard from all of the passengers.

Later I walked to the front of the plane so I could stretch my legs. A man who was seated about six rows in front of me reached out his hand, wanting to shake mine. He left another twenty-five dollars in my palm.

When we landed I gathered my belongings and started to deplane. Waiting just inside the airplane door was a man who stopped me, put something in my shirt pocket, turned, and walked away without saying a word. Another twenty-five dollars!

Upon entering the terminal, I saw the soldiers gathering for their trip to the base.

I walked over to them and handed them seventy-five dollars. “It will take you some time to reach the base … It will be about time for a sandwich. God Bless You.”

Ten young men left that flight feeling the love and respect of their fellow travelers.

As I walked briskly to my car, I whispered a prayer for their safe return. These soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals. It seemed so little …

A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America” for an amount of “up to and including my life.”

That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

If you’ve followed our blog content at all, you’re well aware of the fact that I don’t talk politics. It’s a lost cause which thrills half of our readers and alienates the other half … depending on the issue. However, I do enjoy challenging the status quo which leads to “breakthroughs” at any and every level.

My thoughts on this particular issue were, at first, totally humorous. However, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes!

As we approach a major political vote next week, I find myself bored and irritated at the same time. I’m tired of seeing politicians who avoid telling us what they’re going to do by telling us why we shouldn’t vote for their opponent. In short, from coast to coast, we see nothing but liars calling each other liars. In the meantime, nothing gets done anywhere.

I’m quickly arriving at the conclusion that high school students, using what little experience they have … coupled with common sense, enthusiasm, and creativity … could quickly solve the majority of the country’s current challenges. Of course, I’m talking about those major challenges that have our current political masterminds within the Washington, D.C., beltway totally stifled and gridlocked.

Let me shared a simple example. Illegal immigration to the United States is currently a major issue which is quickly leading to disastrous consequences. The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants, settlement patterns, impact on upward social mobility, crime, and voting behavior.

There are currently 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country by many estimates, but the real numbers could be much higher and the numbers increase every day because our borders are not secure. Washington claims it cannot find these illegal aliens.

Consider this approach. Have you ever sent a package by way of FedEx or UPS? If you have, you know that private enterprise has mastered, using easily accessible technical advances, the fine art of tracking that package from one side of our country to the next. They can pinpoint the location of that package at any given time during its journey. Private enterprise can track each and every one of millions of moving packages while the federal government can’t locate a single illegal alien who has been living in the same location for years!

Solution: Let’s have FedEx and UPS locate the illegal aliens … then send every one of them a package … then track the package using their technology placed inside police cars.

Package delivered …. alien apprehended … problem solved! Politicians will never learn!

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

How would you like to find a book that could truly change your life? Well, I’m sorry to report that there is no such thing. However, there is a small book which has been around since the turn of the century that can and will inspire YOU to change your life. It’s less than 70 pages and can be read in about an hour.

This “classic,” written by James Allen, seems to be even more relevant in today’s stressful and competitive society than it was when the author originally shared his wisdom. As a Man Thinketh is partly responsible for the creation of the entire personal development industry. In fact, it has greatly influenced many contemporary writers including Norman Vincent Peale, Earl Nightingale, Denis Waitley and Tony Robbins, among others.

The premise is simple but can truly be life-changing: “We become what we think about.” It’s been translated into five major languages, inspiring millions of readers to recognize that man’s visions can become reality, simply through the power of thought.

In both keynote presentations and seminars, we share irrefutable examples that “each of us constantly move toward our most dominant thought”! Therefore, YOU CHOOSE to move in a positive or negative direction. Obviously, your daily thoughts determine your destiny. Are you prepared to harness this powerful energy on your journey to success?

This book has changed lives all over the world and has been an inspiration to great leaders in every field. It should be required reading in every classroom on earth but is seldom recognized by the majority of our population.

Watch this short but compelling video, find a copy of As a Man Thinketh, and start changing your life TODAY!

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.