On a vacation, just like in life, everyone knows the end is coming. The difference with a vacation is we plan for it.

I’m reading a self-help book, it’s a new release (which means hard cover prices), and getting lots of good reviews, so I added it to my morning reading.

But there’s one problem I can’t seem to get by.

For years I taught workshops intended to help people be more productive while somehow having more free time. As my war chest of advice got bigger my PowerPoint decks got longer and handouts got thicker.  

What I didn’t appreciate was how it was possible to do less and have more.

In life there are three buses. They come along all day, but take you in very different directions.

Goals are the backbone of change and achievement in sports, business, life - even love. But what if you don’t know what the future holds, or what you want, or what your market wants?

We all have ‘gaps’ that rub up against our ideals and irritate our best intentions. Often a little curiosity (“What will this cost me?”) can fuel a small flame that might just light up what you were looking for all along.

We can either follow someone else’s music and hope it leads somewhere nice or decide now to become the kind of person who marches to their own kazoo.

Life is sort of like watching a movie. You’re left with a whole bunch of feelings, but you can’t remember big chunks of it.

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.

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…

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

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…

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.

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.