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How Blame Corroded My Relationships

My life didn’t turn out as I planned. I started to believe it was someone else’s fault. I blamed God. I blamed the long lines of people who always wanted […]

Aligning What You Value Most With Your Daily Life

In his book, Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money, my friend Carl Richards said, “You can’t say that you value time with your kids when you just […]

Do Less Better

Sir Edmond Hillary claimed he climbed Mt. Everest, “Because it’s there.” Reframed, I think he meant “Because I can.” Not everyone possesses the athleticism and grit to achieve the summit […]

11-Hour Fatigue Rule

My Uber driver in Iowa told him his story. He said that the reason he drove for Uber was that of the “11-hour fatigue rule”. He drives a big-rig diesel […]

Seeing Our Ideas Through to Completion

Today, I saw a loch that a Duke carved out in the late 1700’s to connect a seven mile away coal mine to the city center. The plaque said he […]

A Sustainable Pace of Life

When I was ten years old my life was simple, unhurried and I lived at a walking pace of 3 MPH. I walked to a friends house. I rode my […]

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. […]

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. […]