Midlife is the Perfect Time to Finally Tell Yourself the Right Story
Use the Natural Inflection Points in Your Life to Redefine and Rebuild Your Self-Talk A couple of years into our marriage, both in our mid-20s, Chris and I started the discussion about kids. The result was that we decided the time was now. The logic went something...
112 Proverbs for My High School Graduate Self
Bite-sized Chunks of Wisdom I Wish Someone Had Told Me at 17 We're on the cusp of the empty nest, and it has me reflecting. Our youngest son is about to graduate from high school and enter college, so my wife and I are trying to savor all of the little moments we get...
You Don’t Have a Time Management Problem
You Have a Time Prioritization Problem The light bulb went on in the middle of the night while I was staring bleary-eyed at the blue-light glow of my computer monitor. My wife and I had three young kids at home, and I was a programmer on a software development...
Wordle: A Good Use of Time or Productivity Killer?
How to be Productively Unproductive Did my Wordle today. Meh...got it in 5. I'm usually a 4 or 5 guy, so par for the course. I'm a bit caught up in the craze, like many of you. I don't cheat (what's the point), nor share on social media (not that I wouldn't,...
How to Flip the Script and Overcome Limiting Beliefs in Midlife
By Midlife We've Built Up A Pile of Limiting Beliefs -- But We Can Overcome The day was here, and I had been anticipating this day for the entire summer. My anticipation was equal parts excitement and dread. This was the first day of sixth grade -- middle...
Should You Get Your First Tattoo in Midlife?
Does it make you a badass, or is it just pathetic? I distinctly remember the first time I noticed a tattoo. My mom was mortified. I don't remember my exact age, but given where we lived, I was probably 6 or 7. At this time in my childhood, we lived in a...
How to Avoid the Killer Disease of Midlife
Spoiler: It has nothing to do with diet, exercise, COVID, or vaccines You and I are fighting a deadly disease that needlessly infects many midlifers. If we let this disease take hold, the fatality rate is 100%. The patient, though, is not your body -- it's...
How to Be Creative — A Masterclass in Creative Work from The Beatles Get Back
Revealing Truths About Creativity and Creatives The Peter Jackson documentary compiled from the 1969 Beatles' Get Back sessions is a masterclass in the process of creative work. Many people think good art and creative work is magic, requires some unique, innate...
5 Simple Cleanup Tasks to Start Fresh
Do These Things to Get You Started with a Clean Slate A fresh start. A new beginning. Wipe the slate clean. If you're anything like me, sometimes you need a reset. A fresh start brings possibilities and helps purge the baggage renting space in my mind. At the...
What I Learned From Intermittent Fasting for 60 Days
It Has Nothing to Do With Physical Health Spoiler Alert: This isn't an article about the physical health benefits of intermittent fasting. This is an article about what the experiment taught me about mindset, habits, discipline, and the secret to making changes...
The Joy Of Running – Why You Should Get Out and Run Around
It's Not for the Physical Benefits When I was in 4th or 5th grade (late 70's), our class took a field trip to a local museum. I don't remember anything about the museum except a diorama featuring native Americans. What I do remember, however, is this was the field...
How to Respond When Your Friend Sends You the “See, I Told You So!” Link Bludgeon
You're Right -- Just Ask the Internet You've done it, and I've done it. You've had it done to you, and I've had it done to me. It's the dreaded "See! I told you so! I was right!!" link bludgeon. Don't you love when a friend, to support his side of an...
102 Easy Exercises to Get You Out of Your Comfort Zone
Become a Better Leader, Entrepreneur, Parent, Spouse, and Human By Learning How to Operate Outside Your Comfort Zone Become a better and happier human by becoming more comfortable!! That's The World's greatest sales pitch. The World sells comfort to us because we buy...
What To Do When Your Best Isn’t Good Enough
And Why the "Doing Your Best is Always Enough" Myth Might Be Killing Your Success The toxic positivity movement, growing over recent years from parents to tee-ball coaches to life coaches, will tell you otherwise. The movement will tell you that your best...
How Technology is Ruining Your Productivity
A Simple Fix To Take Control of Your Time and Boost Your Productivity "The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free." ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb One of my favorite scenes from the movie Up is when...
On The Hook
Being The Change You Wish to See You want to be on the hook. We need you on the hook. Only those on the hook make the difference, make a change, make an impact. And when a group of people on the hook come together, the sky is the limit. A group of people on the...
111 Easy to Follow Rules for a Miserable Life
Here's How To Have a Trainwreck of a Life Without Substance Abuse 111 rules! That seems like a bunch. When I first started this very intense project, I thought that I'd have to settle somewhere around 25. Could I find 25 actionable rules for a miserable life? I wasn't...
14 Life Lessons I Learned During the Year of COVID
A Year Unlike Any Other (Or Was It?) One year ago, we received the agonizing phone call from our daughter, Maddie, that we wouldn't be traveling to the University of Michigan that weekend. Gymnastics season was officially over. The last three meets of her senior...
The Usefulness of a Gimmick
Are Gimmicks Good or Bad? If your nose is in the air, a gimmick is never for you. If you're a hustler, a gimmick is always for you. If you're a producer, a gimmick may be a trick to extract money. If you're a consumer, it may be a trigger that sets you on the right...
Why Follow Your Passion is Lousy Advice
Passion in Your Work is a Choice, Not a Calling “Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, ‘Don’t follow your passion, but always bring it with you.’”- Mike Rowe, Dirty Jobs Mike’s right. ...
An Important Difference Between Knowledge and Learning
And Why Learning Is What You Need It wasn't until I understood the difference between knowledge and learning that I finally got unstuck. I have loved acquiring knowledge for my entire 50 years. I've always been naturally curious; read books; like museums, school, and...
How to do Marketing Right: Three Things Pizza, Wine, and Vinyl LPs Taught Me
And More Importantly Taught Me About Myself That's right. At 50 years old, by learning more about marketing, I learned quite a bit about myself, and in some ways, I'm not at all who I thought I was. I'm an engineer and software developer. I'm a logic-first guy and a...
How to Know When to Say Yes or No
The Science of Saying Yes and the Art of Saying No You and I have a yes/no problem. Specifically, we're not saying one of them enough, or to the right thing, or at the right time. This group over here says we're supposed to say "Yes" more. Saying yes boosts our...
Time To Learn How To Listen
Dear Younger Me, You weren't a good listener. Oh sure, on the surface you were. You developed skills as an active listener and you learned the finer points of conversation etiquette. But all in the context of getting what you want, making your viewpoint known, and...
Stop Being a Starter and Start Being a Finisher
Dear younger me, Stop being a starter and start being a finisher. Although starting is an important step, it will con you into never making an impact. Once you become a finisher, then you can become someone who finishes well. And that's how you will ultimately make...
To Mask or Not to Mask
I honestly don't know who to believe. There are experts, so-called experts, and loud-mouthed non-experts on both sides of this issue (as with most issues). Here's one thing I know, though: Wearing a mask in public spaces is no longer just about individual nor...
The Most Important “Best” Practice When Working From Home
There are thousands of articles that give great lists of best practices when working from home, but most of them neglect what has been the critical one for me. In my experience, the most important "best" practice when working from home is to work socially. Especially...
Why You Need Recess If You Work From Home
Mr. Leeser's fifth grade was the pinnacle of my elementary school career. Specifically because of recess. Fifth-grade was all about kickball. The way I remember it, the kickball game was the most important 30 minutes of the entire fifth-grade day. This was 1979, so...
How to Avoid Distractions When Working From Home
It's not about self-discipline. If it was, I'd have no hope. I'm not a Navy Seal nor a Buddhist monk. I'm not disciplined enough. If I'm not on my game, I'm like Dug the dog in the movie Up. There are squirrels all over the place, and I can't stop chasing them. Next...
An Optimistic View of a New Normal for Community
I have never been accused of being an optimist (just ask my family), but right now I'm more optimistic than ever about the future of the global community. The current COVID-19 crisis has given us a first-ever prototype in the history of our species and planet. We are...
How to Keep Your Remote Team Productive and Happy
This is quite an unprecedented time we've been thrust into. Over the last several weeks and months, a large subset of the global workforce has moved from the traditional office environment to the work-from-home remote environment. It's happened quickly, and in many...
Why a Season of Solitude Might Be Exactly What You Need
Solitude has been used as a punishment since the dawn of recorded history. What's the highest level of punishment levied in ancient civilizations? Banishment...solitude. What's the highest level of punishment levied by organized religion? Excommunication...solitude....
4 Tips to Help You Love Working From Home
Whether you've been forced to work from home, or are doing it voluntarily, it can be daunting at first. But with the proper mindset and environment, it can be the single best thing you've done in your work life. I've been a full-time remote worker for several years...
What a Child Can Teach Us About How a Producer Spends Money vs How a Consumer Spends Money
I won't lie. The "Aha!" moment I describe below has me wanting to slap my younger self right upside the head. However, it perfectly illustrates the essence of how a producer spends money vs how a consumer spends money. Spending Like a Producer...As a Child On a recent...
The 3 “Magic” Steps to Success
Forget about it. If you're here to unearth the secrets, the magic steps to success, close this window. You won't find them here. There are no magic steps, and there aren't any secrets. But that's why you're here. Looking for the magic. Looking for why you haven't...
How to Stand Out in the Apple Store…and in Life
As it turns out, it's surprisingly simple. Maybe not comfortable, though, which means it's probably not easy. That's always the rub, isn't it? The Promise of Mediocrity In retrospect, I've spent most of my life trying not to stand out. Living life in the comfort zone....
Beware and Be Aware of Your Preferences
"I'd rather..." It's a simple phrase, and a simple thought in the moment. In modern affluent society, adults make approximately 35000 decisions a day. Presumably you make these daily choices according to your preferences. But which preferences? The answer to that is...
What A Fear of Heights Taught Me about Goal Setting
I suck at achieving goals. I've disappointed myself time and time again. Not for lack of "investing" in myself. I've done all the things: read the blogs and books, watched the videos, and listened to the podcasts; taken the seminars, both professionally and...
The Peril Of Comfort
I've built a life of comfort...and its kept me stuck and mediocre. As best as I can figure, I've built that life of comfort for 2 reasons: Comfort is...well...comfortable. I like being comfortable. I've been sold comfort is the holy grail since I was a kid. Aspiring...
A Signpost on the Journey of Growth
I acted like a child, and it makes me squirm just thinking about it. You've had moments like that. A moment when you look back, you just roll your eyes, and wish to never think of it again. You can't believe how you acted, and felt, and thought at that moment. You're...
Stuff My Younger Self Got Right
Fifty is one of those milestones. Probably past half way. Certainly a reasonable point to reflect. Whether you feel awesome, or mediocre, or terrible, have some fun with the reflection. For some, it would be easy to focus on what you wish was different. The regrets....
Stuff I’d Tell My Younger Self
As I cross the 50-year boundary, my head is full. Full of ideas, full of things I want to do, full of the grocery list, full of regrets, and... Full of stuff I wish I could tell my younger self. Stuff that's based on how I thought, felt, and viewed the world at around...
How to Make Someday a Reality
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How to Get Happier, Healthier, and More Productive by Quitting These 4 Things Today
Happier, Healthier, and More Productive by Quitting... Happier, healthier, and more productive...Don't we all want that? Most self-help advice seems to be focused on adding things to your life: a new routine, or more exercise, or more communication, or more skill...
The 4 Resources You Need to Live Your Dream Life
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Your Most Important New Year’s Resolution
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How to Fight the Victim Mindset (Updated)
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A Mindset Shift on Money That Will Transform Your Income
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How to Have a Great Year: The Power of Thanksgiving
How to Have a Great Year By Using the Power of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is one of the BEST holidays...at least in our house. It's one of the "big 3": Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving. Each of these holidays is special for its own reasons. Each combine traditions,...
5 Things You Can Do To Silence Your Inner Critic
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3 Tips to Make Yourself Work When You Don’t Feel Like It
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How to Create Your Own Luck To Achieve Success
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How to Improve Your Communication: A 4 Step Guide
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How to Spend Money Wisely to Grow Your Business
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The Best Method for Time Management
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We’re All Failures…At Least the Best of Us Are
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Focus on What YOU Can Control: Why You are NOT Getting Results
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How to Identify Your Ideal Customer or Client
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Producers vs Consumers and their Mindset on Spending Money
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Are you an Amateur or a Pro? How to be a Pro…
Are you an Amateur or a Pro? Are you struggling with meeting your goals or simply getting stuff done? Have you ever looked at others: a friend, a colleague, someone "famous" in your field, and wonder why they are having success and you aren't? One reason may simply...
4 Tips to Help You Reach Your Potential
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What is Residual Income, and Why You Need It
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Should I Burn the Ships?
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First Step to Overcoming Fear and Resistance (Revised)
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My Morning Routine To Kickstart a Successful Day
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What Would You Do If You Couldn’t Fail?
What Would You Do If You Couldn't Fail? Let's play a game. It's called: "What would you do if you couldn't fail?" Great question and great game, right? Especially for the dreamers among us (or the dreamer-curious amount us)! The Lottery Game Sometimes people play a...
How to Know What You are Supposed to Do With Your Life
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Four Activities You Should be Doing Every Day as a Side or Home Business Entrepreneur
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Focus on What YOU Can Control: Will You Ring the Bell?
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Real-Time Communication: Productivity Igniter or Productivity Killer?
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4 Tips to Help You Escape a Valley
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The Aha! Moment for Me in John C Maxwell’s Top 10 Reasons Why People Fail
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3 Tips for Conducting your Home Business or Side Project so it Actually Progresses
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How To Handle When You Don’t Reach Your Goals
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The Most Important Mindset Training for Achieving Your Goals
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The Difference Between Knowledge and Learning
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Are you Racing or Participating?
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The 3 Areas in Which You MUST Invest in Yourself
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1 Simple and Powerful Tip to Help Make Your Workdays More Productive
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How to Change Your Mindset on Self-Doubt and the Fear that Results From It
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A Mindset Shift on Money That Will Empower You
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Are you Being Accused of Having Changed? How to Keep Going…
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How to Fight the Victim Mindset
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Leadership Lessons from the Baseball Diamond: Confidence Breeds Excellence
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One Way to Fight the Resistance: Are You a Producer or a Consumer?
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How to Realistically Turn Actions into Habits
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Leadership Lessons from the Baseball Diamond: Don’t Blame Others
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One Critical Piece of Advice for Those Coming Out of School or Changing Careers…and Budding Entrepreneurs!
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How to Overcome 2 Popular Assumptions About Failure
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How to be Productively Unproductive to Allow our Mind to Recover
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Never use this Deadly Self-Talk Phrase Again!
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3 Tips on How to Start Finding Your Purpose
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Are you trying to go from "Couch to 5k", or maybe your trying to jump from "Sprint Triathlon to Half"? Are you overwhelmed with the number and variety of training plans available and recommended? Here's what you need to know in order to choose: If you are trying to...
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Change your Mindset from Failure to Setback
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Do you know how IT happened? Do you know how you how and why you got there? Do you simply find yourself somewhere you'd rather not be? This is how... One of the great books that I’ve been learning from is called “The Slight Edge”, Jeff Olsen. Check it out on the...
Fear: Build a Bridge and Get Over It
What are your fears? I have many, and one of them is heights. My friends and family have many funny stories about me at the top of lighthouses, on zip line platforms, on tall buildings, edge of cliffs, etc. The comfortable approach is to simply avoid the situation...
First Step to Overcoming Fear and Resistance…Just Start Doing It
Recently I was able to meet in person and spend some quality 1-on-1 time with a virtual mentor of mine whom I've been following and learning from for quite a while now. It was a "can-opener to the mind" kind of a discussion, and I am extremely grateful. So many...
