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Lessons From The Original Apprentice

Brooks Van Norman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:25:52 +0000

You do remember the Apprentice, right? It's hard to believe that it was seven years ago season one aired on NBC. I remember being there with Traci during the filming of season three and walking by the Trump tower - thinking about the show and what it meant to entrepreneurs all over. As they say - time flies - It seems like yesterday I remember Donald Trump choosing Bill Rancic, an internet entrepreneur from Chicago, to be his right hand man for a year.

Canadian Olympic Gold

Brooks Van Norman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:51:11 +0000

The 2010 Olympics exceeded everyone's expectations, including mine. It was an event for the ages and I'm so glad to have been a small part of it. Our athletes all did a killer job. It was one of the best Canadian hosted events I can think of - a thousand times better than Expo '86! These Olympic Games were so well done - and for the first time in my life - I saw fellow Canadian display their love of our country in a way that I've never seen before: with unrestrained passion and bravado.

Snowshoeing In The Sun

Brooks Van Norman — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:15:57 +0000

This is one of those posts where the pictures really tell the whole story so much better than words can. However, there are a few thoughts that I must share about last weekend’s snow shoeing at Crystal Mountain. First – there’s nothing like getting outdoors after a long week of staring at a computer monitor! Second, it’s [...]

How I Dealt with a Massive Pain the Neck

Brooks Van Norman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:47:27 +0000

The information in this post is something I wish I'd read ten years ago...when my neck really started to bother me. And I mean - REALLY BOTHER ME. This is a post about how I dealt with the pain of a long term sports injury in my neck through exercise, stretching, strengthening and supplementation. It all started in high school. I was playing rugby on the high school rugby [...]

A Beautiful Wedding In Montreal

Brooks Van Norman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:21:47 +0000

I love weddings. This is a post about an incredibly well done wedding of some old friends. We combined the visit to Montreal with some vacation time. Having been to many weddings and receptions, I must admit that this was probably the most beautiful and romantic wedding I can recall having been to. Most of the guest list had flown in from western Europe - predominantly Holland, the UK and the Netherlands, since the bride [...]

High Intensity Weight Training with Jim Flanagan

Brooks Van Norman — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:25:59 +0000

On my last trip to Florida, I made a new friend who I'll never forget. Meet Jim Flanagan. Meet BIG Jim Flanagan. Here's how the friendship started, I was dining at a steak house restaurant in Orlando that had been recommended to me by the concierge at the Peabody Hotel. The restaurant was called Del Frisco's and it is a well known chain of steak restaurants on the East Coast of the USA.

While dining there, a very large, very tall [...]