From 2009-2011, Cerini wrote a unique and creative blog that focuses on business lessons taken from life experiences. Click through our stories below!

We can learn a lot from our passions that can help us be more effective in the businesses we run.  Jim Collins, the author of From Good to Great, was an avid rock climber.  In the attached article, he explores certain concepts from rock climbing and how they apply in the business world.   I have incorporated certain concepts into both my personal and business life (and my climbing life too). While it is a little long, it is definitely worth the read, find Jim Collins' article: Hitting the Wall: Realizing that Vertical Limits Aren't here.

There comes a point in life when we’re forced to take the reins of our lives into our own hands—when we realize that no one is left to man the station except one’s own self. For some, it comes sooner rather than later. For me in particular, well, I was very comfortable with someone else steering the course of my life.

As a fresh graduate I can’t explain how great it felt to turn in textbooks for tassels. Of course that post-grad high began to wear down, and in its place was overwhelming panic at the realization that I can no longer be the child I want to be. It was time to do the “grown-up” things in life:  get a job, buy a car, and get insurance (both health and auto), etc.

Harold Camping, a California preacher who predicted that the end of the world would arrive on May 21st, has revised his prediction by five months.  The rescheduled date for world obliteration is October 21, 2011.  Mark your calendar-again.  If you are like me, you probably did not hear the buzz until a week before the scheduled date of Rapture.  In fact, I only knew Rapture to be a big hit for Blondie in 1981. However, Camping gained countless followers who wholeheartedly believed that the end of the world was coming on, what turned out to be, a picturesque Saturday on the East Coast.  There were reports of Camping believers who gave away all personal effects in preparation of the big day, while Camping’s non-profit organization amassed over $70,000,000 in donations.  It is reported that one man disposed of all his properties, including his household effects and winter potatoes, to settle his accounts with the world before the big day.  Another retired New York City engineer reportedly spent $140,000, nearly his entire life’s savings, to buy 1,000 bus and subway ads warning people about May 21st.