There’s something seductive about making a list - especially at year end. Our Disney-like dream is that everything we list will - poof! - magically get done. So, we pull up a chair, grab our favourite pen, and with firm chin (whatever that means), open our journal to...
The universe doesn’t have everything we want, when we want it. You can want a newer car, but it doesn’t have that for you, right now. You can want a better job, more money, more time, slimmer waist, happier kids, whatever. Life doesn’t happen like the day John...
I stopped drinking coffee and it changed my life. It wasn’t so much that getting off the brew improved my health, although it didn’t hurt. The real win, when I switched from coffee to tea, was I learned about willpower. In my early years in business I was a river...
The challenge of keeping up with email is getting worse, not better. And even though you might have a “zero InBox” goal, you might also be spending more time reading, sorting, responding, and deleting than you want. Last year, McKinsey Global reported that the average...
When I was a kid I had lots of heroes. There was my Dad who could out stare anyone, my oldest brother who could do anything, and of course Clint Eastwood who could out shoot everyone. It’s taken me a very long time to get on that list. If you haven’t seen Ben...
On a flight recently I had a brain wave. You know, that’s the kind of thought that sweeps over you like a tsunami - but not in a bad way. I have 1460 days left to live. No, I’m not going to die in 1460 days. But something big is going to happen and it’s big enough to...
I am a student of success. I learned a long time ago it's faster to learn from someone more successful than me, rather than bumbling along trying to figure it all out myself. Recently, I was at Mike Stelzner's amazing Social Media Marketing World conference in San...