It’s that time of year again when we prepare to set our goals (not resolutions) for the New Year. Before you get started setting your goals, it’s important to reflect back on the past year. I call this creating a snapshot of where you’ve been and how you’ve spent your time and energy over the [...]
Every week, I end up having powerful conversations with leaders just like you that guide me to new insights, challenge my thinking, and elevate my mindset. Here are three highlights from the past week… Awareness, Desire, Doing, and Grit. Change begins with the awareness that there's something to change. Then, there's the desire to make a [...]
Every week, I end up having powerful conversations with leaders just like you that guide me to new insights, challenge my thinking, and elevate my mindset. Here are three highlights from the past week… Control the things you can control. There are a lot of things out there right now that you cannot control. You [...]
Every week, I end up having powerful conversations with leaders just like you that guide me to new insights, challenge my thinking, and elevate my mindset. Here are three highlights from the past week… Get ruthlessly clear about what you want, and use that clarity to set up guardrails for yourself. Once we define what [...]
Every year around this time, I share this simple challenge… Take some time and write down 100 things you are thankful for. Chris Cathers and I talked about gratitude the other day on the Grit Meets Growth podcast while recording our Thanksgiving episode. Chris was particularly fired up about embracing gratitude and generosity through November [...]
In our fast-paced world, the desire to achieve our goals and experience personal growth often pushes us to move at breakneck speeds. We're told to go full throttle, hustle relentlessly, and chase our dreams with unrelenting determination. But what happens when that unwavering pursuit takes us 100 mph in the wrong direction? If you've ever [...]
I grew up collecting cards. Baseball, football, basketball, and hockey cards. As a kid, my mom would walk me to the local card shop, and I would spend hours looking at all the best cards in the glass cases. I'd spend my allowance on packs of cards, hoping to find one of my favorite players. [...]
"I need to do this… and I need to get that done. There's a fire to put out here… and I want to do that, too." Between the things we need to do, the fires that require our attention, and where we want to spend our time and energy, there's never enough to go around. [...]
It is 5:10 in the morning on September 5th, 2023. The house, other than a few lights, is dark. Outside, it is pitch black – the sun won’t come up for another 45 minutes. All should be quiet in our house, but there is activity and energy this morning. From upstairs, the twins are talking [...]
A few weeks ago, my twins turned seventeen. Like every other birthday, I got up early and decorated the house with streamers and balloons. Then, I made a Starbucks run, grabbed their favorite drinks, and we snuck in a quick breakfast at home before they left to go to school. When everyone was gone, and [...]
