Every week I get together with a group of close friends and we spend an hour visiting and support each other. They are my tribe, no doubt. I call it, “the best club ever”. One day last week, as I was sitting there and listening as we went around the room, and...
Are you married? I was married once. I actually liked being married, I just didn’t like what we became. I’m not married anymore. Most of us sign up to be married with good intentions. We reinforce those intentions by pledging to each other that we’re in, “until death...
In the past 100 years entire industries have been built based on the “brokenness” of humans. The most obvious is therapy – nobody goes to therapy when they’re fixed, only when they’re broken. The entire cottage industry of jurisprudence (aka the law) – from...
I love cameras. Cameras are my one (and probably my only) healthy addiction. My dad was a camera guy from the Kodak Instamatic, to the Polaroid, to his Canon FTB. Speaking of Polaroid, apparently my great grandfather, an electrical engineer who worked at Purdue,...
Webster defines “alchemy” as, “an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting”. In medieval lore, the foundation of alchemy was transmutation: to turn base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, unearthing the path to indefinitely prolonging life....
At least 5 mornings a week (sometimes 6), I lift 43,000 pounds. I know, you can’t really tell, but it’s true. I did the math, and I lift 43,000 pounds pretty much every morning. I don’t do it all at once (I’m a back surgery survivor), I do it in a series of lifts in...
Sometimes we get caught in the thick of thin things. We go down the rabbit hole way deeper than we should, we fret about things we shouldn’t, and we forget that there is a difference between the things that matter and the things that don’t. In our seemingly endless...
When I went to school I learned to read, and I learned how to write. I even learned how to speak French (c’est vrai). But the one thing my teachers, counselors and even the lunch ladies never taught me was how to do was make good decisions. If yours taught you, then...
Want to get better?Do your reps.Want to get stronger?Do your reps.Want to get faster?Do your reps.Reps are the ticket friend.__________________Lots of people say, “Oh I wish I could (fill in the blank) like you, but I never could.” Sure you can, you just have to do...
I love teaching REAL Negotiation. It’s a workshop that captures all of my touchstones of dealing with other people and ourselves delivered in a convenient 6.5-hour experience including lunch. You should check it out sometime. Every audience has its own jam and a...
