Rick Butts

Note from Rick: This began as a private email. I decided to publish it in the hope that it would help someone else. Please comment and forward to someone you think would be helped by these words. My old and friend – my little brother – my soul brother in the struggle I can only [...]

I was a weird kid. I had issues before having issues was even cool. Now, I have an issue about how early my issues began, but my therapist says it’s not so much an issue any longer. I’m not so sure. A nervous lad, out of place on the farm, where the prospect of a [...]

While commenting on a friend’s Facebook note about setting goals, reaching for your big year, I started typing about an experience I’d just had driving through the mountains today. This is the actual picture I took, and what I wrote. I hope it helps you lighten up. This afternoon I drove up into the snowy [...]

7 Little Choices That Can Wreck Your Business and Your Life is now officially available for download! You can go right to http://rickbutts.com/7/ and get your copy now! I’m posting this page on my blog so that you can make any comments you like about the book. I’m excited to read your thoughts in these [...]

My brother Rodney came to Denver for a big top secret government conference and I was lucky to get a chance to have dinner with him. Rodney works for FEMA – a highly clandestine X-Files type black helicopter ops type gig for the super-smart uuber geeks. I’m pretty sure he knows both Mulder and Scully, [...]

Last night I was blown away by one of the most surprisingly wonderful motion pictures. Ghost Town looked like a light and funny romp and I love Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni so I bought my ticket and salted my popcorn. There were only about 20 people in the theater on a Tuesday night so [...]

So I’m sitting in the farthest chair from the stage in the back of one of those big airwall ballrooms at some convention for dentists. Since I gave the same motivational keynote speech, almost word for word, at every booking – I rarely took the time to even find who the name of the meeting, [...]

What in the world is this thing in my ear, and why is it on fire? I was having a blockedge in my ear, which later turned out to be a eustacian tube thing, so my daughter was trying to stop me from complaining so much, and recommended this weird homeopathic solution that she said [...]

This true story of a lesson learned in the ancient city of Jerusalem may help you see a new way to look at people who are different. This single idea changed my life…

Jack Humphrey published an article I wrote about how Twitter is better than Google because the collective brain trust functions as a living sentient being. Is there any other computer or software that you can type a real question to – and get back real answers, not search results? I believe this is one of [...]