Ideas and research on living a great life and having a huge impact
When I look at my big hairy audacious goals (BHAG) they are daunting, exciting, and require dozens, hundreds, and in some cases thousands of hours to achieve. Often I find myself rewriting the same goal — “Start writing” “Start podcast”, “Ask her out”, and others … A trend that I saw centered on the beginning not beginning, as Continue Reading
Daily practicing what you love is an amazing life, and something funny happens when you enjoy the process — you become really good at that thing. A habit that I practice for both myself, my athletes, and colleagues is to focus on the process. The work The grind The effort Give all of our attention and praise Continue Reading
The classic debate around optimism, vision, and a reveal into the mind of those around centers on a simple cup. The cup represents how you view the world, where your mindset is settled on today, and perhaps a hack into how you were raised. That is a lot for a little cup, so let’s break Continue Reading
Why I am (have been) afraid to ask someone for their time, and it goes deeper than that unfortunately? When you are trying to build anything it takes partners. It takes people and their time. Whether you succeed or fail depends on your ability to bring these minds and ideas along your journey, but that Continue Reading
Mindset is a funny muscle, it is something we can’t see in the mirror and only know we are in a bad place when we’ve reached rock bottom. Literally it impacts everything we do in this world. It is how we treat our kids, loved ones, teammates, and even the ever important barista. Given it Continue Reading
How often do we find ourselves reflecting at our priorities for the day and realize, maybe, just maybe, we may be pushing the boundaries of reasonable. I mean, I am all for you being a renaissance man or woman and pulling from different trades and spaces. The real lift though comes when these share a Continue Reading
Why am I so happy this morning? I literally had one of the most amazing mornings today and I just had to put it down as to why. it’s incredible and I wish it upon all of you Maybe I don’t know exactly why, maybe it’s not one thing but it is important when you have Continue Reading
4 most important truths that impact culture, policy, risk, and success There are several key strategic activities and habits that businesses that want to succeed deploying technology on the Cloud, like you, must adopt. I base this from my reference point of having worked to scale up, build out, help secure, attest, certify, review, architect amazing Continue Reading
In a world where you once were pushed to be conservative and a jack of all trades it seems radical and foolish to push you away from the middle. Here is what is wrong with the middle — knowledgeable but not good at anything is dangerous. Being broad without depth eliminates your ability to ‘level-up’ in any Continue Reading
Chase your passions friends. Today I had the chance to see the rewards of hard work from one of my mentees with the launch of their 2018 album, video, Spotify success, and now a few gigs. Just shows, good sense; execution; and the right strategy can apply across art and business. What are you waiting Continue Reading