Happy Valentine's Day to you and your loved ones!

Cuddle up with your partner as you listen to my thoughts on the most powerful force on Earth: Love.

You can't take it with you.

We can't buy time.

We can't enjoy the fruits of our labor when we're dead.

But our loved ones can. Our friends and family can.

We deserve greatness, to be shown and told, even after we are gone.

After all, isn't the point of living, to feel alive; to enjoy one another? To leave behind a legacy?

We can't take our money with us.

We can only hope to leave behind enough, for others to enjoy. 

And to protect ourselves in the end.

Our end will come.

Traffic Jams can be annoying. OK, they are. But they also give us something we wouldn't have otherwise had: time. More time. More time to reflect, to listen, to breathe, to realize just how little time we have.

Let's enjoy the time. Let's react in a positive manner.

Everyone wants more time. Everyone wants to move so quickly, when we should be doing the opposite.

Once we run out of time, it's gone. We're gone. We're not coming back, and we're not getting that time back.

Good morning, good afternoon, and good night.

Today's message is about everyone's favorite hashtag to begin the week (#MondayMotivation).

Motivation can come in all forms. But for me, and the grieving families I serve, it has an entirely different meaning. Not everyone gets to have a fresh start to the week. For some, it's actually their ending. As always, the choices we make, derive from the situations we are faced with.

Life, death, and everything in between.

My friend Matthew Moore and I discuss my poker book, The Game of Life and Poker: The Lessons I Learned On and Off the Felt. This episode covers Chapter Sixteen, titled "The End of an Era."

My friend Matthew Moore and I discuss my poker book, The Game of Life and Poker: The Lessons I Learned On and Off the Felt. This episode covers Chapter Fifteen, titled "The Long and Winding Road to Tournament Success."

My friend Matthew Moore and I discuss my poker book, The Game of Life and Poker: The Lessons I Learned On and Off the Felt. This episode covers Chapter Fourteen, titled "This Is My December, This Is All So Clear."

My friend Matthew Moore and I discuss my poker book, The Game of Life and Poker: The Lessons I Learned On and Off the Felt. This episode covers Chapter Thirteen, titled "Take Me Down to Championship City."

My friend Matthew Moore and I discuss my poker book, The Game of Life and Poker: The Lessons I Learned On and Off the Felt. This episode covers Chapter Twelve, titled "Chasing the Dream, Over and Over Again."