Ideas and research on living a great life and having a huge impact
When I look at my big hairy audacious goals (BHAG) they are daunting, exciting, and require dozens, hundreds, and in some cases thousands of hours to achieve. Often I find myself rewriting the same goal — “Start writing” “Start podcast”, “Ask her out”, and others … A trend that I saw centered on the beginning not beginning, as Continue Reading
Tips and tricks from an author, father, and creator One of the most popular questions I get from clients and others centers around, ‘How do you get so much done?’ As I hear that question, I reflect on my habits and days to see just what I am doing different than others. We all have Continue Reading
If you want to have a high performing team, run a great non-profit, have a healthy relationship, or simply feel good inside … you must see this truth. The truth is people need to feel their work matters, that it is appreciated, and that you care that they were the ones who did it. This is Continue Reading
4 most important truths that impact culture, policy, risk, and success There are several key strategic activities and habits that businesses that want to succeed deploying technology on the Cloud, like you, must adopt. I base this from my reference point of having worked to scale up, build out, help secure, attest, certify, review, architect amazing Continue Reading
Currently I work with a huge scale of vendors across the globe for various products — industrial, pure cloud software, and everything in between. The growth that I can achieve from building a better solution for my customers with these vendors (partners if you will) far exceeds what I can do without them. As such, I and Continue Reading
You have only just begun… You have heard this your whole life and I know you are chomping at the bit (is that still an expression) to experience life on your own terms. To apply your work ethic to your dreams and apply your craft in a profession that you have been chasing for what Continue Reading
The key to fitness and long term health is to be consistent with your training; follow smart workouts that fit your age, goals, home life, and equipment; and ultimately, to practice a balance that respects your mental state. Unfortunately, you can do everything right — make goals, get your training in, and then life brings joy, distraction, Continue Reading
When I overcame my procrastinations I was able to: publish 4 books, speak to 1,000 of people on my passions, stop big failings in products (courage to stop action), build a fitness community of passionates, and demonstrate gratitude with my daughter. When procrastination won … I lost out on several deep and personal relationships (maybe), left Continue Reading
A short but vital message to all hesitating and stuck in their ambitions… Sometimes we act and it isn’t perfect. Then we learn and improve. As much a reminder for me, as advice for you, appreciate we all fell when we first tried to walk – so don’t judge on the quality of production but Continue Reading
Find your center, your passion, and or that which you do. You could be a cybersecurity expert, a fitness expert, someone who likes cutting these in two, or a naturally engaging person who conducts random interviews daily. What each of these example have is it is your true north. Your default behavior. Embrace that! Too Continue Reading