A Daily Moment of Clarity for Your Business & Your Busyness
We might need to have a difficult conversation. I write a lot about motivation and productivity. I get a lot of questions about those subjects, so I keep thinking about them. And I think there’s a hard realization some people need to face. Maybe – deep down in your secret world – you just don’t [...]
What’s your proudest individual achievement? Four years ago today, I quit smoking. I started when I was 18 and quit when I was 37. (Last year, I wrote about how I did it.) Everything in my life’s improved since I quit smoking, but I’m not sure if that’s the primary reason it’s my proudest individual [...]
Want a more stimulating, less anxious, more satisfying week? Want to wake up Saturday morning feeling refreshed and content? You remember contentment, don’t you? We’ve gotten so busy we’ve managed to get our priorities out of whack again, but it didn’t happen overnight. It crept up on us slowly and quietly. The grind is a [...]
Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. – Jim Henson
The Back Nine are stories and videos and stuff I uncovered this week that I enjoyed and felt were worth sharing for your weekend reading. Urville: An Autistic Savant’s Remarkable Imaginary City, 20 Years in the Making – Words fail. 25 TEDTalk Quotes to Inspire You – Plus, links to all the talks. Great stuff, but watch [...]
Roy said something once I already intuitively knew but hadn’t thought about so succinctly when he said: “Control the music. Control the room.” Music is a mood selection device – even if we don’t know the words to the songs. I’m getting ready to get back on the road for a few speaking engagements. I [...]
“Check your blog. Funky unpleasant links embedded in the text.” This is not the kind of text you want to get from sister at 5:55 AM. Yesterday morning, my website got hacked. I was suddenly doling out both supposed wisdom and links to stuff I don’t wish to print here. I was momentarily and all-at-once [...]
45 Days. 45 Posts. My friend Jake recently asked: “Holy cow! How do you keep up with all that writing?” I am always writing. I’m just not always typing. I’m typing this before a client meeting – sitting in their parking lot – using my index finger on the WordPress app on my phone. I [...]
Understand, I received no payment for this, no free services for this. I’m writing this simply because Amanda and her elbows are awesome, massage is awesome, and I want you to feel its awesomeness, too. Have you considered a massage as a gift for yourself of someone you love? My life changed for the better [...]
If you had 18 minutes to talk about changing the world … about the idea that keeps you up nights … about the fire in your belly that water won’t quit … What is it? What’s the thing that moves you? Think about it. We’ll get back to it in about 350 words. So, here’s [...]
I'm a husband, dad, and I'm the head custodian for The Imagination Advisory Group. All three are pretty good gigs.
I regularly speak to conferences, colleges, and companies about what makes people do the things they do.
In 2005, my worldview shifted when our son was diagnosed with autism. Since then, our family has learned to separate the truly important from the merely urgent.
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