A Daily Moment of Clarity for Your Business & Your Busyness
Yesterday, I wrote about focusing on the work that matters … about taking control of your week before it (and your evil inbox) controls you. To illustrate this point, here are two images of my calendar: 1. The top image is from yesterday morning around 5:30 AM. I had just returned from two weeks on [...]
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs [...]
I’m a nerd. I believe we’ve been over this. For planning, to-do’s and scheduling I have a simple-but-trusted online system for sharing events with my family and soon-to-be business partner. I can access events, dates, and to-do’s from anywhere at anytime with pretty much any device. But … Corrine Taylor taught me to go old [...]
Inertia rocks. You know what doesn’t? “I’ll start tomorrow.” All you need is will and a catalyst (and perhaps, if you’re really lucky, a partner like my wife to provide you with honest-to-goodness inspiration). For me, the catalyst is pulling back the covers at 4:30 AM. If I can get the covers pulled back and [...]
Who’s with me? I left Illinois for my home in central Missouri at around 1pm. While listening to podcasts on my phone, I kept hearing the little ‘bing,’ ‘bing,’ ‘bing’ that notified me of new emails while I was driving. I’m not going to read them. I’m driving, right? So what good does it do [...]
As someone who travels and works an awful lot out of my email inbox, I make the conscious choice to keep it clean. Yep. Most every night, I go to bed with my inbox empty. No emails. This doesn’t work for everybody (my partner Roy has about 14,000 in there the last time I checked), [...]
How you think it feels being Super Bowl XLV MVP Aaron Rodgers today? Wouldn’t it be cool to feel like that? To be at the very top of your game? That sense of accomplishment from a season’s worth of struggle and sacrifice? Beginning today, why not give yourself permission to kick off your own season [...]
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve had a few people ask about the space I use to do (the majority of) my work. Warning – this is gonna get geeky. I work from home. Our house has two master bedrooms – one of which we (and be ‘we,’ I mean ‘my wife’) converted into this [...]
You ever feel like you’re not sure how you’re going to dig out – either metaphorically or literally? We’re digging out from Columbia, Missouri’s first blizzard in recorded history. Last night, Interstate 70 was closed down from St. Louis to Kansas City, and we woke up to 17.5″ of new snow on the ground. We [...]
Morning! I just read this post from Seth Godin – Three ways to help people get things done – and I immediately thought of my friends in the not-for-profit sector (though it’s quite appropriate for any organization or family). Please read and share. Here’s my favorite paragraph: When people learn to embrace achievement, they get [...]
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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