Making a Difference

Developing an Every Day Muscle

I’ve always wanted to be more consistent-stone cold, steady—the person who skips all of the fussing, excuses, and mini-dramas. I wished myself to be the guy who shows up, does […]

What’s Wrong With the World?

At the turn of the nineteenth century, The London Times once asked readers, What’s wrong with the world? Can you imagine the volcanic explosion of response if we asked this […]

Writing a Life List (Stuff Ya Wanna Do)

Personally, I don’t love the term “bucket list”. I prefer the idea of focusing on the things I want to do while I’m living vs. before I “kick the bucket”. […]

Start Close In

Poet David Whyte writes,“Start close in,don’t take the second stepor the third,start with the firstthingclose in,the stepyou don’t want to take.” The first step is the hardest to take. We […]

The Books That I’m Ingesting This Year

This morning, feeling the crispness of autumn breeze through my window, I started to see a loose form, a blurry but distinct outline. My stack of books starts animating in […]

What Seeds Are You Planting?

Friend, We’re here together, in the middle of the beginning of a pandemic story, with the future uncertain and, what if? What if we… invite simplicity back find flow in […]

How to Manage Your Daily Energy

The When and What Strategy When at my lowest point of burnout, the quality of my questions kept improving, aiding my recovery, and returning strength. Using two simple words, “When” […]

Soulful work that took me ten years to finish

“Be who you really are and go the whole way”. In 600 B.C., I think what Lao Tzu was getting at when he wrote that sentence was something like Get […]

Less but better, Winning Streak

Hey friends, I was having a conversation with my wife yesterday, and she encouraged me to reach out to you. A lot has happened since I wrote back in January. […]

Seeking Advice From Our Younger Guide

On my office wall, I have a four- by five-inch photo of myself taken in 1994 standing in the doorframe of a burnt orange and primer gray Ford cattle truck […]