We live in a world where screen time has replaced time outdoors, social media has replaced being social and youth are being influenced by memes instead of mentors and viral videos instead of the simple virtues of nature.

We all face resistance - that invisible force that loves to grab the hand brake before we get rolling. Maybe it’s cold calling a prospect, signing up for your first yoga class, or doing your taxes.

Maybe you need to ask for money, drop some annoying weight, leave a destructive relationship, or stop pouring that …

I’m not good at asking. 
Perhaps growing up in a large family over-sensitized me to come across as greedy. Or maybe pride gets in the way…

Every time we fail we get a choice—admit defeat, or roll up our sleeves and get to work. Either way, it’s a lesson…

When I got into the business of speaking I actually didn’t know it was a business. I thought public speaking was something …

I admit it - I was lying. For more years than I care to admit I promoted the well-worn myth that there is time for everything…

We all have gaps in life. You may want to exercise more, eat better, earn more, find a path through a forest of …

This morning I lined up a podcast, hit play, and headed out the door for a run. This wasn’t some extraordinary…

I’ve noticed a problem I think we all share. It’s an insidious disease that seems to have infected pretty well everyone…

Like so many years recently, this one felt pretty messy. Our news feeds were full of wars, surprisingly blatant criminal …

I volunteer. For all too many years, I was head-down, obsessed with business. My family was young, I needed income…

It’s been a while. Earlier this year I was writing a lot. Most blog posts. A couple of book ideas came and went and then…

Anyone who takes a ‘we’ll figure out how to profit in the future’ attitude to business is being ridiculous.” - Jason Fried, Rework

I was in a car the other day with a radiologist and a neurosurgeon talking about hypertension. This conversation…

When I was a kid my Dad was my hero. He wore a 3-piece suit to his accounting office, was always in control, and could fix anything.

Running a business can make you feel a little like Gulliver tied up by Lilliputians, pulled in every direction by ropes you can’t see.

Like a train that leaves the station heading down a single track, every entrepreneur opens their doors excited about bringing one product to market.

Your ambitions and dreams eventually wake up to the realization you are slower at almost everything and getting slower still. Some things don’t happen at all.

Relationships are complicated, sometimes messy, frequently confusing, and they are wonderful inventions.