This is the second version of those same lyrics. The music gives the words a different feel. You’ll see. The image below is the shadow of Jackson Whittington when he was a little boy. Jackson is in college now and much taller; about 6’4”. The female shadow is Jane DeDecker’s “Into the Wind,” the life-size […]

Brad Whittington is famous for his series of novels that begin with “Welcome to Fred,” his memories of growing up in Fred, Texas.  Yes, it is a real place. Brad and the wizard often sit and talk. They occasionally pause to take artistic photos of interesting things they notice around them. The short song below […]

  I’ve got one last video for you, but this one I put together from 10 famous opening lines that the wizard had archived in his Random Quotes database at WizardOfAds.com. I believe you will enjoy it.Ciao for Niao – Indy Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to […]

  How are you spending your 1,440 minutes each day? Ron Lieback learned time management from riding a motorcycle. Despite his hectic schedule, he still finds time to ride at least 30,000 miles a year. Motorcycle riding requires precisely the same focus and foresight that is required to gain control of a demanding schedule. The farther […]

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Bob Dylan accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, although his delayed response and absence from the official ceremony sparked widespread public debate. Dylan took nearly a week to publicly acknowledge the award, leading some committee members to initially call his silence impolite. He did not attend the December award ceremony in Stockholm due to pre-existing […]

Speaking as the sidekick of a man who makes his living romanticizing things that are not easily romanticized, I have some knowledge of how it is done. That being said, I consider Ayn Rand’s character of John Galt – the hero in her book “Atlas Shrugged” – to be perhaps the most absurdly romanticized character […]

  Steven Mercer speaks from personal experience when he tells entrepreneurs how to build a service practice without sacrificing their values, their time, or their financial stability.  Deputy rover Maxwell Rotbart asks brilliant questions and scribbles notes while Steven Mercer explains how to transition gradually from current employment to independent practice. He then explains how […]

  This is another delightful little human-written poem and it is only one minute and ten seconds long. You can spare that, can’t you? – Indy Beagle

A Happy Poem written about Hit Songs from the 70’s remembered in the spirit of “American Pie.” SNAPSHOTS OF THE 70’s Every word of this poem was written by a human but it is being sung by a robot that has been studying humans all its life. Give him a break. He’s doing the best […]

Saturday, August 1st, will mark the 150th Anniversary of Colorado’s admission to the Union as the 38th state. That milestone might not seem to relevant at first glance, but your opinion will quickly change. Maxwell Rotbart reveals in his new book, “Becoming Colorado,” the Rocky Mountain territory’s long struggle for statehood offers valuable lessons for […]

Ron Robinson says that successful organizations continuously evaluate their vulnerabilities, engage employees in solving problems, and remain flexible as conditions change. Listen as Ron describes to roving reporter Rotbart his four-step framework for anticipating disruption and responding before challenges become existential threats. Ron’s goal is straightforward: Help leaders weather the storms of uncertainty and emerge […]

Are you curious about the names of the other ad men who are quoted in the Random Quotes database?  Famous ad men from the previous generation include David Ogilvy, Bill Bernbach, Morris Hite, and Charles H. Sandage. And then, of course, there is Leo Burnett, whom the wizard quotes as having said, “I am one […]

AN OBSERVATION by Indy Beagle The Random Quotes Database at MondayMorningMemo.com contains – at this moment – 7,914 quotes that the wizard has painstakingly transcribed from conversations, books, magazines, newspapers, TV shows and movies over the past 32 years; nearly 8,000 things that he felt needed to be archived. The wizard often quotes his Wizard […]

I have been startled by the reactions of people all across the Middle East to this song on the Absurdocrats channel. Do you want to hear the song that “the average person” across the Middle East, Africa, and South America says is one of their favorite songs? It’s this one. After you listen to it, […]

Colin Hodge knows that rapid business growth begins with understanding why customers think, choose, and behave as they do. Colin applies practical insights from psychology to strengthen customer loyalty and make better decisions through continual experimentation. As he tells roving reporter Rotbart, this mindset proved essential after his first successful app was abruptly pulled from Apple’s app […]

Chris Flakus has been recruiting executives for 30 years. Today he is offering practical advice on how job candidates can land better positions and how companies can hire and retain better employees. His message to jobseekers is straightforward:Stay relevant by demonstrating1. adaptability2. curiosity3. a commitment to lifelong learning. His recommendation to employers is equally clear: Hire, develop, and […]

My friend Manley Miller wrote this song within the expansive confines of his brightly lit mind. He then produced the song with the help of an AI tool that allows us writers to add the sticky melodics that add the sugar required to make the medicine carried by the music taste more sweet. I am […]

Rory Sutherland tells a series of wonderful stories on Youtube. The episode from which we created the song below is titled, “Rory Sutherland – Alchemy.” Rory has one of the few Advertising and Marketing minds that we really admire. The Youtube song below was created from one of his very best stories. We recently posted […]

Caterina dumps baby Lenny on her boyfriend, then moves to town and gets married to someone else. Neither Lenny’s father nor his mother is willing to give Lenny their family name, so he is known only by the name of the mountain under whose shadow he was born: Lenny Albano. An unwanted child, Lenny grows […]

The wizard wrote this Youtube blessing for you a few hours ago, and I picked this quote from the nearly 8,000 quotes that I have transcribed into the Random Quotes database here at MondayMorningMemo.com. By the way, I was with the wizard and Princess Pennie and the wizard’s Mom in Paris a few years ago […]

Most companies struggle with how to turn good ideas into successful outcomes. Jeffrey Lambert knows exactly why we struggle,  and how to correct it. A veteran project-management expert, Jeffrey can explain in plain English why companies always benefit from clear project ownership, well-defined goals, and disciplined execution. As he tells roving reporter Rotbart, the best […]

Katherine, Thank you. I am honored to be considered, but I made the decision not to speak publicly outside the city of Austin about 10 years ago and have never wavered in that decision. I am writing to say thank you for the invitation, and to promise that I will give serious thought to which […]

Starting with a single strand of pearls that he purchased for his girlfriend, Jeremy Shepherd has become one of America’s most successful sellers of pearls and pearl jewelry. Intrigued by the pearl business, he became rich in pearls of wisdom as he accumulated a treasure trove of entrepreneurial insights through his successes and his mistakes. […]

  A homograph is any word that shares the same spelling as another word but has a different meaning. A heteronym is a specific type of homograph: words with identical spellings that are also pronounced differently. Simply put: all heteronyms are homographs, but not all homographs are heteronyms. 1. True Homonyms These words are both spelled […]

Why English is so Hard to Learn 1. The bandage was wound around the wound. 2. The farm was cultivated to produce produce. 3. The dump was so full that the workers had to refuse more refuse. 4. We must polish the Polish furniture shown at the store. 5. He could lead if he would […]

Tim Whitt is a business coach who learned his craft from termites, mosquitoes, and stinging bees. Seriously. After more than 45 years in the pest-control business, Tim says every business owner can learn a lot from the problems that insects and vermin create for homeowners. Listen as Tim tells deputy rover Maxwell Rotbart about the […]

The Basics of Poetic Meter 1. The Poetic Foot A poetic foot is the fundamental unit of measurement. The four most common types of feet in English poetry are:  Iamb (da-DUM): One unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Example: “be-long“  Trochee (DUM-da): One stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Example: “hob-bit”  Anapest (da-da-DUM): […]

Jeff and Trish Sylvestre of Canada have been good friends of the wizard and Princess Pennie for about 20 years. During one of their visits in 2023, we all went to eat at ABBA on South Congress Avenue and while we were walking the swanky sidewalks, we noticed this unusual display in the window of […]

This Youtube short was quickly written last Saturday morning. Sometimes Apple will pop a group of photos up on the wizard’s phone. I’m not sure why, and he doesn’t know why either, but they pop up just the same, even if we don’t understand. The photo that hit the wizard in the nose and triggered […]

Small-business growth creates a frustrating paradox: the more a business succeeds, the more overwhelmed the owner becomes. Small-business coach Jason Rosado helps small-business owners strengthen their teams and create more free time for their owners. In this week’s episode of MondayMorningRadio, Jason tells roving reporter Rotbart how a business owner can identify whether their business […]

This ad is one that Aaron requested, but we had a lot of fun making it for him. You can tell by listening to his ads that he is not just a highly successful business man. Aaron Gaynor is a complete human being with deeply held beliefs and personal values and favorite charities and a […]

Today I want you to meet Christina Gressianu, one of the remarkable Wizard of Ads Partners. Her clients rave about how brilliant she is, and her friends rave about how cheerful she is. Christina recently posted a great article on the LinkedIn Wizard of Ads Partner Blog. Take a look at it, then listen (below) […]

  One in every five American adults is the customer of a family that you have never heard of. Their company generates more than $32 billion in annual revenue. And the $17 trillion in customer accounts and investment funds it manages exceeds the gross domestic products of Germany, Japan, and India combined. Yet despite Fidelity […]

Today’s MondayMorningMemo revolved around this idea: “Find out what people want, then give it to them.” This is probably the last time I will update you on our Youtube channels. Not because I’m trying to keep anything from you, but because it feels to me like I am asking you to look at photos of […]

  Jon Erlichman spent 25 years as a television business news anchor helping viewers make better financial and investing decisions. But it turns out his most remarkable expertise is self-marketing. Since leaving mainstream journalism in October 2024 to launch his own digital brand, his social media videos have been viewed a whopping 2 billion times. […]

We create rules because they are simpler, shorter, and easier than principles. Every rule is a shortcut, an abbreviation, a sort of acronym that represents a bigger, more robust truth. Here are some common acronyms: FTE, JFK, COB, LBJ, PTO, MLK, DJ, YOLO and let’s not forget MOFO. And then there are SCUBA, IBM, WIFI […]

The first video on this channel was published on May 13th. I’ll give you all the juicy details about this new channel on Monday, May 24th. But in the meantime, this is Johnny Molson, a brilliant speaker and writer and a dazzling instructor at Wizard Academy. There have been solid golden nuggets given away daily […]

  Cheryl Strauss Einhorn helps executives, entrepreneurs, and leadership teams make smarter, more confident choices and avoid costly mistakes. As a Decision Science strategist, Cheryl developed the widely used AREA Method, a framework designed to help leaders challenge assumptions, reduce cognitive bias, and improve judgment in high-stakes situations. In this week’s episode of Monday Morning […]

  Zig Ziglar would have turned 100 this year. This week, Tom Ziglar shares some little-known stories about his father with roving reporter Rotbart and deputy rover, Maxwell, including the fact that despite Zig’s worldwide fame, he once carried a stranger’s luggage to the guest’s hotel room simply because the out-of-towner took one look at Zig’s […]

Starting over at age 30 with a pregnant wife, no money, and a shattered career dream could have broken Jack Oujo. Instead, it became the unlikely foundation for building one of America’s largest tax-focused wealth management firms. Oujo relied on discipline, preparation, and relentless self-education to reinvent himself. As Oujo tells roving reporter Rotbart from […]

Because I’m always with him, I see him do a lot of goofy stufflike taking this photo of himself in the bathroom mirror. What I didn’t realize at the time was that he was planning to use his cell phone as a canvas to write you a cheerful message in Photoshop. (Overall, I like hanging […]

The wide range of things being written by the small team of people crafting lyrics for our three channels is pretty remarkable, considering that all of these Wizard Academy Alumni have obligations to full-time jobs. But yet they continue to post anywhere from 1 to 6 new pieces per day. Go figure. And yes, this […]

    I only have two songs for you today. This one is a marvelous country song written by Waterboy Tom of Amarillo.The next one – believe it or not – isabout how Ad Writing is similar to Songwriting.

    When people talk about the Chicago Cubs and their historic 2016 World Series victory — ending a 108-year drought — Joshua Lifrak is a name you rarely hear. But he wears a Cubs World Series ring. Joshua Lifrak’s job was to help players perform under extraordinary pressure. Today Joshua works with business leaders […]

You might remember reading this in the MondayMorningMemo two or three weeks ago, but more than 1.5 million people across the world have heard this song since then. Thought you might want to hear it, too. Hey! Listen to what I say: School is coming to its natural conclusion so all the Tom Sawyers and […]

Of the 200+ videos that we have been creating with the help of four Wizard Academy alumni, this one has been the most fruitful at producing subscribers. If you watch the video below, it will help you understand how thirstily the people of our world are looking for encouragement right now. “Jesus Arm-Wrestled Death and […]

Martin “Marty” Strong is a former Navy SEAL, business leader, and author who challenges conventional thinking about how companies — and the people who oversee them — should operate. Blending lessons from the battlefield and the executive suite, Lieutenant Strong argues that too many of today’s leaders cling to outdated methods, failing to recognize that […]

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  @Absurdocrats is our smallest channel. This is where we put colorful parodies and overblown performances and other odds-and-ends that we’re not sure what to do with. Strangely, more than 100,000 people have subscribed in the past 6 weeks. Go figure.

This perfect poem about The Muse, written by the remarkable Tim Storm, has a couple of homophones that make it difficult for people who speak other languages to fully appreciate, but we posted it nonetheless. The first homophone happens when you see “pain” and were expecting “pane.” This is your clue to reinterpret “female deer,” […]

  Effective workplace mentoring isn’t a ‘sometimes’ thing. It’s a habit. That’s a leadership lesson that Kim Lee has learned after more than two decades of hands-on experience in human resources, and helping businesses embrace what she dubs “a coaching culture.” As Kim tells roving reporter Rotbart, employees who feel supported and invested in are […]

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  This 25-foot-wide painting is a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper painted by Giampietrino and possibly Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio – both pupils of Leonardo da Vinci. It’s believed to be the most accurate record of the original and has been used to help with its conservation. This version is oil paint on canvas, whereas Leonardo’s version was painted […]

  The Artemis II mission to the moon is underway! Mark L. Fox was a chief engineer for the Space Shuttle program. He was also a board member and an instructor at Wizard Academy for 18 years. Today our roving reporter Rotbart probes Mark’s thoughts on America’s return to that great, ruined rock in the […]

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Ellen Wright has a scrumptious recipe for Basque chicken with sausage and tomato pinto sauce. That’s no surprise for a five-time cookbook author who trained under Julia Child and James Beard. What is unexpected is that many of the techniques Ellen has used throughout her career to create mouthwatering dishes can be readily translated into […]

Click these links to see current subscriber counts on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@GreatWritersSeries/shorts https://www.youtube.com/@TribalGospel/shorts https://www.youtube.com/@Absurdocrats/shorts The graph below is a screenshot from March 25th. On the morning of the 26th, the channel had grown to 1,009,318due to subscriber activity in India, Bangladesh, and Iraq. 

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  Fauzia Burke generates visibility for her literary clients and their books. Her authors include Ken Blanchard, Daniel Silva, Jeffrey Archer, Alan Alda, Dean Koontz, S.C. Gwynne, and Brian Tracy. Fauzia could undoubtedly rest on her laurels, but ever since she launched her firm in 1995, she has continually updated and reinvented her methods. This […]

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  Most people believe that business success is the product of talent, hard work, and persistence. But what if success could be analyzed — and improved — using the laws of probability? Kyle Austin Young maintains that most goals can be analyzed and improved by understanding their underlying odds. This is true of whatever you […]

  If I counted correctly, there are 109 nations listed in the image below. Youtube does not serve video content into any nation that is not on that list. Consequently, the wizard and I “targeted” the whole list. Rolling through 109 nations in 24 time zones every day is a lot of fun. And guess […]

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Here is a link to the details page @GreatWritersSeries if you are curious about the updated subscriber count.

When today’s Monday Morning Memo was completed last Thursday night, March 12, @Tribal Gospel had grown from zero to more than 105,000 subscribers in just 30 days. It you want to take a look at today’s subscriber count, click over to @TribalGospel.

Yep. Another short video, then we’ve got MondayMorningRadio.

    Courtney De Ronde is a financial decoder. She studies the same financial data that business owners and their accountants review, but she uncovers opportunities and risks within those numbers that are almost always overlooked. This is why Courtney De Ronde has evolved as a scaling expert. She helps businesses grow by avoiding the […]

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    America’s top CEOs pay Doug C. Brown to teach them how to rethink their approach to sales. Doug has consulted Procter & Gamble, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Embassy Suites. Doug C. Brown is not a lightweight. Doug tells roving reporter Rotbart, “most companies can quickly realize a 20-30% improvement in operating profits” when they […]

  Regular viewers of cable news will instantly recognize Arthur Lih and his ubiquitous commercials for LifeVac, the non-invasive rescue device he invented to save choking victims when the Heimlich maneuver and other traditional methods fail. To date, his invention is credited with saving 5,450-plus lives. As Arthur shares with roving reporter Rotbart and his deputy, […]

  I described Amanda as “a bright young woman” in the MMMemo two weeks ago because I had heard the story, but didn’t know her name. I did know, however, (and still do) the name of her employer. But I didn’t want him and her to be buried with 10,000 phone calls asking what they […]

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Hey Roy, I’m Amanda, the “bright young woman” you mentioned in the Monday Morning Memo. I have to tell you, you absolutely made my day! It’s been an honor to work with Stephen and Gary, and to learn from them. I admire your marketing wisdom and have seen how well it works for my employer. Thank […]

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