The Mentor's Mentor: Book Review

                                                                                         

  Jim Pagiamtzis review:
       Corey Olynik shares tremendous insights on the power of having mentors and strategies to accomplish huge success!

 10 out of 10 stars


 About book:

We hear a lot about mentoring. Not many resources to show us how to do it with impact. This book lives up to that promise.

Author Corey Olynik obviously loves helping people become all they can. You can hear it in the stories. You can feel it in the approaches. Corey has “been there, done that.” His insights into both the mentor and the protege are spot on. His techniques are tested. His hopes are evident.

The Mentor’s Mentor is a unique combination of motivation and how-to. His unique understanding of the mentoring relationship becomes clear from the first page.

In The Mentor’s Mentor you’ll learn six different roles every good mentor must play:

Confidante - creating a trusting environment for meaningful conversation.
Role Model - sharing stories from one person’s life to help another grow.
Guide - pointing out landmarks, small victories ahead and how to work toward them.
Tutor - helping someone learn and, more importantly, want to learn the things she is missing.
Coach - heartily patting someone on the back and gracefully poking him with a stick.
Sage - understanding someone’s higher purpose, connecting to it and showing how progress is being regularly made toward it.

The Mentor’s Mentor teaches how to live each of these roles effectively and how to recognize when to switch between them.

The Mentor’s Mentor is practical. The Mentor’s Mentor is inspiring. The Mentor’s Mentor is challenging. The Mentor’s Mentor is entertaining.

Absorb this book and you’ll be a better mentor, a better spouse, a better friend, a better boss, a better human being  learn more and buy book

(True) Story; The Authentic Atlanta Games hat and Wayne Gretzky

Why do I have an authentic 1996 Atlantic summer games hat. I know a guy named Bill Cornish who worked as a delivery driver for UPS in the early 2000’s and I was shipper/receiver and told that Wayne Gretzky lived with time.

We didn’t believe him until he showed us pictures and he went to the Atlantic Olympic Games.

Have since read many books and seen interviews where the Great One acknowledges the Cornish’s #greatone #waynegretzky
           

                                                  

Authentic Atlanta Games Hat

Total Gretzky

Special Sports Post: James Paxton's No Hitter

             Tuesday May 8th

           James "Big Maple" Paxtor threw a no-hitter against Toronto Blue Jays.

      He was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays but never signed with them. Fast forward to today and her pitched a gem of game. 5-0 win in Toronto.

         

                                                     

Game Night! (2018): Movie Review

                                                      

          Jim Pagiamtzis review: (contains spoilers)

  "Amazing movie from the beginning all to the end. Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams and the amazing cast gel well together to create synergy and comedic laughter!

  Game night is thrill ride that involves cofusion, cops, car chases and clever movie references all the way through. It makes a great experience to pay attention to catch it all.

   There is a amazing house chase sequence that is so epic that you have to go and watch the movie just for that!

   Just when you think you have figured it out another twist then turn happens!  I hope Ed and Denzel watch this film because they may find it hilarious! There is even a amazing references to multiple movies throughout the film.   I rate this a 9 out 10"  

   Movie Plot

Bateman and McAdams star as Max and Annie, whose weekly couples game night gets kicked up a notch when Max’s charismatic brother, Brooks (Chandler), arranges a murder mystery party, complete with fake thugs and faux federal agents.

So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it’s all part of the game…right? But as the six uber-competitive gamers set out to solve the case and win, they begin to discover that neither this “game”—nor Brooks—are what they seem to be.

Over the course of one chaotic night, the friends find themselves increasingly in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn.

With no rules, no points, and no idea who all the players are, this could turn out to be the most fun they’ve ever had…or game over.



                                                     

Book Review: David and Goliath

                                      
                     Jim Pagiamtzis Review:

                 "It's always great experience reading Malcolm Gadwell books. How the 3 strikes Law was created was interesting chapter to read"


                  Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won.

Or should he have?

In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.

Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms---all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity.

In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers---The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw---David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.

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Magazine Review: Canadian Immigrant Magazine (March 2017)

                           Amazing articles. including Murali Murthy

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What would Jim Carrey do? Moment of brilliance shared

          In September 2014 I ventured into the world of acting and what an experience it was.

        I did eight auditions and I got them all! Yes you read it correctly!

                      I have to admit in the beginning it was very stressful and exciting to try and impress the directors and producers for the various roles I was going after. As time passed it become little easier.

             One memorable audition I want to share happened in November where I went to audition for a roles that I didn't know much about. Going blind into a role doesn't give you a framework to work with.

                I walked into the audition room and I was given an air duster and told to sell it. I was very confused and bewildered and then the casting director Albert Frank said "make the impossible possible" and  the I had a epiphany and I asked the question "What would Jim Carrey do?" and then all the movie I had watch the Canadian superstar do over the years from Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, Liar Liar flashed through my mind

  I began to say things like "This is not just for your computer you can use it for your arm pits, your hair and anything else"  Albert Frank expression was priceless!

       Every audition I did after that I used the same question, from dancing merenge with an invisible woman at the Fraser Institute in Toronto to acting as doctor and villain.

         Moral of story:  It's not just watching a movie, but turning the ideas upside down and acting and thinking a different way. That gets people attention!                


                                                        

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Book Review: The Joker is Wild-Trials and Triumphs of Jim Carrey by Martin Knelman

                                                       

     The passage was from The Power of Focus by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Deswitt. Describes Jim Carrey journey of success.

  "Jim Carrey, the comedian and movie star who now commands twenty million dollars or more per picture, has a unique talent. He can twist and contort his face and body into the most unusual positions. At times it looks like he's made of rubber.

       As a teenager, he spent hours every day practicing in front of the mirror. He also realized that he was brilliant at doing impersonations, and this became his early routine on the comedy circuit.

    Carrey had many  challenges along the road to stardom. At one point he took two years off as he battled low levels of confidence and uncertainty. However, he was so convinced of his comedic brilliance that kept persisting until he finally offered the main role in a movie called Ace Ventura-Pet Detective. This part gave him an opportunity to be totally bizarre. The movie became a huge box office hit and launched him on the path to super-stardom. Notice, in the early stages of his career he didn't attempt to play serious roles. His supreme talent was unusual comedy. The combination of a strong belief  in his ability to plus hours of daily practice eventually paid off big time.

      Carrey improved his focus using visualization, He wrote himself a check for ten million dollars" For Services Rendered," dated it, kept it in his pocket. When times were tough he would sit on a quiet hillside overlooking Los Angeles and imagine himself as a movie star. Then he'd reread the check as a reminder of his upcoming good fortune. Interestingly enough, a few years later he signed a deal for more than ten million dollars to star in the Mask. The date? Almost identical to the one written on the check he kept for so long in his pocket."

    

Book Review: Living the Good Life

 Canadian Success story. Amazing book. Have lots of extra copies!

 If interested email jim@pagiamtzis.com