One Guy's Truth
After years of building, I have a boat. Not a literal boat, but a figurative one – a metaphor for my life. During my early adult years, this boat began as a wooden dingy – quick, small, fragile, and full of leaks. As I got older, the craft got faster, more agile, yet nearly rudderless […]
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“Don’t be reactive!” “Be grateful!” “Don’t operate from a place of fear!” Other than the grim corona-related news, our media and social feeds seem to be filled with lots of people telling us how to “be” during this clusterf*ck state of affairs. I’m guilty of this as I recently published Keeping Your Mind Virus Free, […]
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A couple of years ago, I had a pretty nasty fall off my mountain bike. After hitting a rock, I was thrown from my bike and found myself rolling down a cliff that led to a creek some 200 feet below. Sliding for about 20 feet, I was able to grab onto some roots that […]
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By conventional standards, 2019 was an enormous failure. At the beginning of the year, I laid out all of my goals in precise detail. I had a list of 18, which you can read about here. Looking back, I only completed 4 of those goals: Establish a coaching business Achieve a certificate from Georgetown in […]
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One of my favorite tasks as an Executive and Manager used to be the Thought of the Day. This was a short quote or story that I would blast out to my team in the morning. The intent was to either educate, motivate, or communicate depending on the needs and mood of the business at […]
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On October 18, 2016, I walked into a board room as the CEO of a multi-million dollar business with responsibility of over 200 employees. The business was my first-born, grown from an idea hatched in 2008. I walked out of that board room a business owner and CEO no longer. It was on this date […]
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Fired & Free 