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A Perfect Fit

By Jim Whitt This is an excerpt from Chapter 5  of The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: As a young actor, Michael Caine was struggling to make a living. One day while in the waiting room of a casting agency, the owner asked him for his coat size and inseam length. Caine told him that he wore a size 40 jacket and his inseam measured 32 inches. The casting agent waved him into his office and told him he would be playing a policeman in a small film the next day. He was selected… Read More

May 21st, 2013 at 10:03pm

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What’s My Line?

By Jim Whitt This is an excerpt from Chapter 5  of The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: What’s My Line? was a popular television game show in the 1950s and 60s. Contestants with unusual occupations would join the host on stage while a panel tried to guess his or her vocation by way of a good natured and often humorous interrogation. My favorite part of the program was the final guest, who was always a celebrity. Since the celebrity guest would be readily recognized, the panel donned masks that kept them “in the dark” so to… Read More

May 7th, 2013 at 8:03pm

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That the Powerful Play Goes On

By Jim Whitt This is Chapter 4 from my series from The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: In the film Dead Poet’s Society Robin Williams portrays an instructor in a private school charged with the daunting challenge of teaching teenaged boys the value of poetry. In one poignant scene he huddles the entire class around him in the middle of his classroom and recites these lines penned by Walt Whitman: “O me! O life… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless — of cities filled with the foolish; what… Read More

May 1st, 2013 at 8:16pm

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Learning to Walk Upright in a Four-Legged World

By Jim Whitt This is Chapter 3 from my series from The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: A headline in an issue of USA Today caught my attention, “Firms spend billions to fire up workers — with little luck. There’s no proof hot coals or speeches motivate the troops.” The accompanying article chronicled some of the more creative ways companies try to motivate employees including shelling out big bucks to have employees walk barefoot across 1,500-degree coals. I suppose they hope if you can walk across a bed of hot coals barefoot maybe you can… Read More

April 24th, 2013 at 8:47pm

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Why Are You Crossing the Road?

By Jim Whitt This is Chapter 2 from my series from The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: In the film City Slickers, Mitch (Billy Crystal) is a New York radio ad salesman experiencing a midlife crisis. He and his two closest friends, who are pretty much in the same boat, decide that a cattle drive on a dude ranch is the perfect vacation. My favorite scene is when Curly (Jack Palance), the tougher-than-nails old cowboy, is riding alone with Mitch looking for strays: Curly: How old are you? Thirty-eight? Mitch: Thirty-nine. Curly: You all… Read More

April 16th, 2013 at 11:15am

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Are you Unbreakable?

By Jim Whitt The following is the Introduction to The TransformationalPower of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life. In the film Unbreakable, Bruce Willis plays the role of seemingly ordinary everyday man David Dunn. His ordinary life takes a turn for the extraordinary when he walks away from a train crash without a scratch and as the sole survivor. This is the first in a series of events that leads him to believe he possesses unique superhuman powers. He discovers that he is, in fact, a real life superhero. With this revelation he begins to conform to his… Read More

April 3rd, 2013 at 7:18pm

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The most important thing is not how or what, it’s why

By Jim Whitt Last week I attended a seminar hosted by Minert & Associates, an accounting firm based in Tulsa and facilitated by my friend and fellow consultant, Nathan Mitchell. Nathan’s topic was Building your Business in Any Economy. Nathan explained that the most important thing to build your business in any economy is not the “how” or “what” you do. It’s the “why.” Tony Minert, the founder of Minert & Associates, validated that claim. He shared how he found the why in a workshop I conducted 12 years ago. I thought it was one of the worst workshops I’ve… Read More

April 3rd, 2013 at 12:22pm

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Is honest work really a virtue?

By Jim Whitt Years ago while on a speaking tour in Asia I flew into Jakarta, Indonesia. As I exited the airport I was mobbed by cab drivers trying to underbid each other for the opportunity to drive me into the city. I held them at bay as best I could when one asked, in very good English, where I was from. I told him I was from the United States. His next question was, “Where in the United States?” I said Oklahoma. His response made me laugh, “Ah, Halliburton!” Travel to an oil or gas field anywhere in the… Read More

March 13th, 2013 at 7:49pm

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What a dog can teach you about customer service

By Jim Whitt After picking up the mail Charlie Mitchell and I were on our way out of the Post Office when a man pointed to Charlie and asked, “Is that a service dog?” Before I could answer he added, “If he’s not you can’t bring him in here. I might get sued.” “Are you the postmaster here?” I asked. “No, I’m the station manager,” he replied. I stuck out my hand and said, “My name is Jim Whitt.” He reluctantly took my hand with a limp grip but didn’t offer his name in return. “I’ve done a lot of… Read More

February 26th, 2013 at 5:25pm

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The mainstream media suffers from Stockholm Syndrome

By Jim Whitt President Obama’s second inaugural address was proclaimed to be Lincolnesque by many of the main stream media. He talked about climate change, gay rights, anti-discrimination, equal pay for women, immigration, gun control, foreign policy, partisan gridlock and income equality while barely touching on the most critical issue of our day — the economy. Imagine Lincoln mentioning the civil war in passing during his second inaugural address while the fate of the union was hanging in the balance. A logical response from the media would be to say the president was out of touch, in denial or possibly… Read More

February 8th, 2013 at 3:21pm

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