The Art of Living

The Empowerment of Choice

I’m a coffee snob. I prefer dark, black, strong coffee over office or hotel coffee. After I fired my boss, I gave myself smoke breaks, but I’m not a smoker. […]

Adopting Minimalism Without Going to Extremes

I own more than one chair. I have two guitars, four pairs of pants, a couple of bikes and a shelf full of unread books. The Minimalists, two guys who […]

Try Easy

I flipped the one-man outrigger canoe five feet from shore. It was my first time to attempt to paddle one of these small Polynesian water craft. I assuredly cranked my […]

Teaching Corporate Guys to Play

I ran an experiment a few years ago. I invited two clients to fly to Colorado to join me for an “off-site” meeting. One of them was wound tight and […]

Turning Over Rocks

When I started in sales, my mentor told me my job was to turn over rocks to discover what was underneath each rock. Most of the time, there was nothing. […]

Why I Took a Break From Podcasting

I told a friend how I unplugged from producing my podcast earlier this summer. He’s in the publishing world, and he understands how difficult it is to build an audience […]

Simplify Your Life: Knowing Where to Start

Simplifying my life started with pocket knives. Two years ago our lives were extremely complicated, extremely expensive and going too fast in too many directions. We knew things had to […]

Big On the Inside

Some people are big. Big personalities. Big in size. Some people’s bigness is a reaction to how small they really feel inside. Some people are small. Some people, big or […]

MicroAdventure: 105℉ July Summer Heat in Plano, TX

Texas hot is no joke. Between wedding events, we had two-hours to kill. Perfect micro-adventure window. My son and I agreed that our two options were going to see a […]

The Economy of Free: Wendell Berry

Last evening I was introduced to Eighty-three-year-old Wendell Berry, Poet, author, essayist and voice of the local farmer by way of a private screening of the film, Look and See. […]