Thoughts and musings from keynote speaker and high performance coach Ari Gunzburg.

I don’t fit into just one box. Do you? If you HAVE to put me into one box, put me into the “motivational speaker” box. Everything else I do stems from that. I am pursuing my dream to build a greater sense of belonging as a keynote speaker. I wrote a book and work with people to do just that. When those around me tell me it can’t be done, I remind myself that visionaries are told this until the moment they actualize their dream and change the world.

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Recently I was at a contest for Toastmasters International in my home district, District 10. After the contest, the contest chair brings up all of the contestants and conducts contestant interviews.

Another one bites the dust….another one bites the dust….and another one down, and another one down, another one bites the dust. Queen’s song lyrics can apply to many situations. But here I’m referencing death.   The Phone Call I just got a phone call from one of my old friends. Turns out another person I […]

Okay, it is now time for some blunt, in-your-face honesty. Honesty with myself professed to the world. This is simply too serendipitous to allow it to go unnoticed by people other than myself, so let’s talk about when MY own words came back to haunt me as a quick motivation.

I wanted to share something with you all today that is focused on gifts, nature and gratitude.

Today I was in the steam room cooling down (I mean warming up!) after yoga and the hot tub and got to speaking with someone there (let's call him Raz* - sounds like a good made up name, right?). The conversation started out fairly innocently as I simply said, "How are you doing?" and he said fine, and then asked me if I was going back to work today (I was there during lunch time).