This morning's been pretty calm at hotel Sergel Plaza in Stockholm. I had a great lunch meeting with Mr. Lennart Jönsson, owner of MISA. An amazing company that helps to provide employment for people with intellectual disabilities all over Sweden. MISA celebrates its 15 year anniversary next year and has made an amazing journey. Together …
Big lecture in Norrköping
In 10 minutes I will start today's lecture in Norrköping. About 400 people bought tickets so I really look forward to this! It is always nice to perform in the evenings, but naturally it puts more pressure when people come on their free time to be entertained. It's more of a show than a lecture. …
Never surrender
LegaWear and Greyzone coop Today was a long day with meetings concerning a fashion show that LegaWear will host together with Greyzone of Sweden on the 20th of November in Goteborg, Sweden. It is a big step, it marks the first step of cooperation between me and Therese Albrechtson, an amazing and inspiring young entrepreneur …
Gothia Basket
Tonight I had a lecture for the partners of Gothenburg's leading team in basketball, team Gothia. Basketball is quite a small sport in Sweden. Gothia plays in our national top league, still only about 400 people goes to see the match. This makes the total turnover of one of our top teams, less than €500,000 …
A new agreement with disabledonline.com
I have just now made an agreement with Mr. Cohen on disabledonline.com to continue our partnership where I place ads on his website. It feels great, Mr. Cohen is a very impressive entrepreneur and I am happy to work together with him for another 6 months. Even though my own disability never takes over my …
A new review of my book
I just noticed that Disaboom published a new review of HANDSFREE Humor Abounds in Hands Free: David Lega’s Inspiring Journey by Rebecca Donnelly Hands Free: David Lega’s Inspiring Journey documents the story of Swedish Paralympic medalist David Lega, who was named “Outstanding Young Person of the World” for 2005 by the International Junior Chamber of Commerce, …
Lunch with Putte
Todays lunch was with Putte, one of my best friends and webguy. Check out http://www.imageform.se
Monday morning meeting
with Göran, a very good friend and role-model. I really believe that it is extremely important with role-models. I have at least 50 all the time and try to mix them to become the person that I want to be.
Sunday evening
This has been a nice and calm day at home. Malin made a nice potato and leek soup that we ate watching Swedish Idol. I really like the idea of giving the unknown artists a shot at fame, but I will always doubt the concept of Auditioning people with no insight of their abilities and …
Me and Elvis Presley…
It's weird. Me and Elvis got the same award. We were both elected "Outstanding Young Persons of the World" by the JCI, me in 2005 and Elvis in 1971. I just found links to our acceptance speeches, so here they come! Me... And Elvis! Other honorees include, Wayne Gretzky, John F. Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein.