There’s a photo in my office of my grandfather. It’s a copy of a picture that used to hang in my grandmother’s apartment when we were kids. A Greek immigrant to the United States, my grandfather is pictured standing proudly in the diner he owned. There’s a customer at the counter enjoying his coffee, and [...]
Just before the police walked through the door, he told me, “Act like you belong here.” Those words of wisdom were given to a 19-year-old version of myself by my friend Daryl. The house party we were at had gotten out of hand, and the police would be walking through the door any second. People [...]
I was sitting in a simulcast of a John Maxwell event a few weeks ago, and John was sharing a conversation with Angela Ahrendts, former vice president of retail at Apple as well as CEO of Burberry. Toward the end of their chat, she brought up the best advice her father had ever given her, [...]
"You don’t have because you don’t ask." Hearing those words was a gut-check for me. In looking ahead toward the things I’m working toward in the next months and years, there’s nothing on my list that I can do alone. That flies in the face of my natural tendency to try and do everything on [...]
I was with a client’s team this week, and part of our conversation focused on mindset. As Henry Ford put it, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t -- you’re right.” Our minds hold a massive amount of power, and our mindset dictates many of our successes, failures, and experiences in life. [...]
There are three words that I haven't been able to get out of my head for the last two months, Believe, Trust, Do. I've spent a ton of time in my head reflecting on how these three words are connected, and more important, what we're supposed to do with them. Starting a brand new year with wide-open [...]
In just a few days it will be Christmas. That puts us one week away from the beginning of 2020. For many of us, this represents our opportunity to set New Year’s resolutions, which are generally successful through about February before they fall apart. The promises we make to ourselves are usually blurry and not [...]
With 2019 nearing its end, it can be tempting to jump right in and start your 2020 goal setting. Exercise more, eat better, make more money, spend more time with friends, learn something new… If that sounds familiar, I want to share a simple exercise that’s helped me take a snapshot of the previous year [...]
It’s November, and Thanksgiving is one week away. As we approach next Thursday, gratitude should be top of mind, but sometimes we’re just too busy. There are so many distractions and so much noise in our lives. Politically, we’re more divided than ever, and the news is filled with things like impeachment, shootings, and hurt. [...]
A parable that I first heard as a kid resurfaced three different times last week. It tells the story of an old Cherokee teaching his grandson. He shares with the boy that two wolves are battling inside all of us. One wolf is evil – it is pride, arrogance, jealousy, resentment, inferiority, lack, self-pity, regret, [...]
