Ideas and research on living a great life and having a huge impact
You don’t need a yogi or a million dollars to create years of happiness and joy .. you need 20 minutes. I have struggled with many areas of my life — poor health, lack of impact on the world, love, and growth in my career. I always tackled these areas with herculean efforts, only to burn out and Continue Reading
You can’t taste life You can’t watch life You can only act and do in life. Meaning being a bystander, a dreamer, and wallflower is not living. It is wasting. You want to be happy, have joy, love, and success? Go do things, passionately, and with all the mistakes and scars that come from them. To do anything Continue Reading
COVID created a worldwide shift for people to live, work, and exist 98% of the day from home. We have all learned how to work from home — enjoy better meetings and more productivity. Deeper hours with our family both have been a blessing and a point of strain. Our kids have been thrust to 100% digital Continue Reading
Leadership’s forced evolution, it may be rocky but the upside is tremendous The COVID pandemic is requiring a new breed of leaders to come forward, and those that fit this archetype will be coveted by stakeholders and employees equally. The classic leadership focused on maximizing output (not innovation / creativity / service) is being exposed Continue Reading
To achieve great, we must focus on the concepts and strategy above all else. Tactics, the execution day to day, matter but not without a firm grasp on the first. Strategy steers the ultimate possibilities of your venture In order to achieve greatness in our personal and professional life we must consider the arc of our Continue Reading
What if we have wealth and poverty defined wrong — what if it has nothing to do with money and ease of life? One concept that was challenged for me on the trip to Rwanda, was poverty. As it is defined; how I measure it; and what it really means for a person or society. You see, Continue Reading
Is it your idea or the highway? I hope not, because soon you’ll be walking the highway by yourself — alone and ineffectual I find myself in deep and passionate discussions fairly often. I prefer these in fact to the blasé discussions about weather and non-impactful topics. Personally I think we all prefer to have real conversations Continue Reading
What is your desire and how does the pressure to seek it create hesitation and conflict? There is so much in life to compare ourselves against. Every direction we look we see what WE KNOW we can do. What in our hearts of hearts we would love to experience. Personally … But then perhaps, in many Continue Reading
You hear it all the time — I am busy; I am working hard…. and yet, these people (ourselves definitely in some moments), find themselves in the same spot. They are not achieving the creative success — making and releasing the art they love. We are not achieving the financial success, or simple project success of our charity and Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself wishing you asked a question? Walked away with regret that you didn’t ask a mentor, girl, boy, boss/leader, etc a question? WE ALL DO — it is a fear protection primal mechanism, and frankly it is the one thing you must change. If you want a better life — ask the question on your Continue Reading