When I was first starting my business, I collaborated on some projects with a partner who would always ask our clients one key question, "What does perfect look like?" It's a question that has strengthened my professional interactions and how I approach my goal-setting. Here's the impact asking this simple question can create… "What does [...]
Try this! Name one hundred things you're grateful for... Can you do it? When I first ask people that question, they hesitate to respond. One hundred can feel like a massive number and naming one hundred things we're thankful for can feel overwhelming. Wouldn't it be easier to name three or four or maybe make [...]
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." We've all heard that saying before, and Albert Einstein often gets credit for saying it. There's a good chance that Einstein never actually said that, but no matter who said it, it's true. If you want to change your results, you [...]
When you set a goal, what's the difference between achieving what you want and missing the mark? I've shared in the past about the importance of doing small things consistently. I've also written about making room to get out of our comfort zones. Both are powerful, but one factor, above all else, predicts success and [...]
Robert Emmons, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading experts on the science of gratitude. A professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, he’s written multiple books on the topic, including The Little Book of Gratitude: Create a Life of Happiness and Wellbeing by Giving Thanks and Thanks!: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make [...]
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who [...]
"The air that day in Nepal was hot, and it was very still in spots. There was no breeze – not what I had expected as we climbed a mountain. In my head, I had anticipated some coolness in the air. As we moved higher in elevation, the sun beat down on our exposed skin. [...]
Training over the last few months for a backpacking trip, I’ve gotten turned on to the ultralight gear community. Search “ultralight backpacking” on YouTube, and you’ll quickly become overwhelmed by the amount of available content. Specifically, for an ultralight backpacker, the goal is to minimize the weight you carry on your trip. Simply put, carry [...]
Gratitude, and the idea behind writing down what we're grateful for each day, seem to be gaining more and more traction. So what's the hype, and is gratitude journaling all it's cracked up to be? Here's some research and science that may make you want to crack open your own gratitude journal… Why gratitude? Let's [...]
"Minutes become hours, hours become days, days become weeks, and before you know it, a year has passed with little to show for it." - Nick Lavery In 2013, on his second combat rotation to Afghanistan, Green Beret Nick Lavery and his detachment fell victim to an insider attack. Nick ultimately survived that attack but [...]
