by Ruben Gonzalez | May 24, 2020 | Attitude, Inspirational Stories, Motivational Stories, Overcoming Challenges, Popular, Success
A couple of days after finishing my competition at the Salt Lake City Olympics I was sitting in the Olympic Village coffee shop drinking an espresso. There, I met an incredible lady. Ildiko Strehli of Hungary. She was in her mid thirties and I was 39, so we both stood...
by Ruben Gonzalez | Jul 3, 2015 | Leadership, Ruben's Soapbox, Team Building
Sonny Corleone – From the movie “The Godfather” One of the key scenes in the movie “The Godfather” is when hotheaded, Sonny Corleone, recklessly shows his enemies that his family is not united when it comes to entering the drug business....
by Ruben Gonzalez | Jul 3, 2015 | Attitude, Peak Performance, Popular, Success, Team Building
K9 Officer and Drug Dog I was speaking in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. One of the other presenters was a Police Canine Officer. He brought his German Shepherd and was telling us about the training drug and explosive sniffing K9s. It turns out that a top drug dog is...
by Ruben Gonzalez | Jul 2, 2015 | Achievement, Attitude, Fun Adventures, Goal Setting, Inspirational Stories, Motivational Stories, Overcoming Challenges, Peak Performance, Planning, Success
When I decided to take up the luge and train for the Olympics I was 21 years old. Back then I thought I could make it to the Olympics all by myself. I still had a lot of growing up to do… In “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” Steven Covey...
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