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Three Wins: Being Present, Being Aware, and Your “Perfect Sixteen”

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… The quality of your connection requires both people, not just one. When you're sharing space in a conversation, be present where [...]

By |2024-02-16T08:57:35-06:00February 16th, 2024|

Three Wins: End-of-Day Rituals, Feedback, and Filling Your Cup

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 focused on your end-of-day rituals. From a Jocko podcast, imagine what would happen if every night you wrote down the [...]

By |2024-01-12T12:56:17-06:00January 12th, 2024|

Start Your 2024 Goal Setting with a Snapshot of 2023

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 [...]

By |2023-12-28T12:46:04-06:00December 27th, 2023|

Three Wins: Live With Grit, Play It Smart, and Embrace Serendipity

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 [...]

By |2023-12-22T12:29:10-06:00December 22nd, 2023|

Three Wins: Ruthless Clarity, Add Value, and Listening to Your Body

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 [...]

By |2023-11-24T11:05:57-06:00November 24th, 2023|

What 100 things are you thankful for in 2023?

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 [...]

By |2023-11-20T17:21:16-06:00November 20th, 2023|

Stop Going 100 MPH in the Wrong Direction

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 [...]

By |2023-10-25T14:05:10-05:00October 25th, 2023|

Play to Your Strengths and Quit Trying to Strengthen Your Weaknesses

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. [...]

By |2023-09-22T14:38:53-05:00September 22nd, 2023|