by Walt Hampton | Sep 12, 2024 | Success
What is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince I have a confession to make: I’m a huge James Bond fan. I have loved them all in all of their incarnations and inanity, from Connery to Craig. Dr. No was the...
by Walt Hampton | Sep 5, 2024 | Success
Ok people, it’s done. Summer’s over. Labor Day is so last weekend. The vacation’s behind you. No more lazy lunches. No more casual Fridays. It’s time to put away the Dockers… and the swimmies. It’s time to get back to it. Fall is here. Time to get busy; time to...
by Walt Hampton | Aug 8, 2024 | Success
When is enough? And where? We’d been trapped for 4 days. On a tiny snow-covered ledge. At nearly 21,000’. Blowing, drifting snow. Hurricane-force winds. Temps well below zero. We were out of food and fuel. Morale was low. Actually morale was gone. At dawn on the 5th...
by Walt Hampton | Jul 25, 2024 | Success
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened. — Michel de Montaigne I come from a long line of worriers. My grandfather was a worrier. He would wring his hands for days before he’d travel about what the weather might...
by Walt Hampton | Apr 24, 2024 | Success
It’s one of the great museums in the world: the Uffizi in Florence, Italy. Filled with some of the most famous works on the planet by some of the most extraordinary artists to have ever lived, like Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, and...
