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Stories, Ideas, and Tools to Take with you.
Essays on storytelling, strategy, and the art of leading with purpose. New thinking, every other week.
Resistance
“Most of us have two lives. the life we live, and the unloved life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
Leaning Into the Hard Stuff
I've written about momentum and focus in the past month, both using mountain biking as a metaphor. Sometimes when you're riding, you come upon a technical section that looks scary.
The Equation of Productivity
My day can end one of two ways - with a sense of satisfaction or a sense of restlessness. What determines one or the other is not how much I got done, but what I got done.
Discover Alignment With A Magical Vision
An organization that is not aligned, does not get things done. Is your vision compelling enough to align the team?I’ve had the pleasure and honor to work with a number of non-profit organizations of late and have observed the importance of one key thing to be able to get things done:
The Stories We are Told
The stories we are told influences our belief system. This email would normally come to you on Sunday morning. I know you didn’t notice it didn’t come. It’s OK, I don’t expect you to pay that close attention (and I mean that in the most un-passive aggressive kind of way) Sunday morning is my own internal metric and I am not happy with myself if I don’t make it.
Relevance in the Turbulence
How do you create a culture of “take my money, anyway?” In the lifecycle of any organization, we experience many bouts of turbulence. Events outside your control are going to happen. Often without warning. Best-laid plans often go awry.
Making the Most of Time
It's Day 14 trying to follow a self-imposed morning routine that starts with a 5 am alarm and a pretty aggressive schedule to get things done. This is also Day 14 of starting my day by beating myself up for skipping the first 90 minutes of that routine.
Highlighting the Cracks in the Veneer
The weeks before Dan Harris, ABC news anchor published his memoir, he panicked that the details in the book could ruin his career. Now, this is somewhat ironic because the book is about meditation.I wonder why it is we feel compelled to put forth this idea of perfection when our audiences appreciate knowing and seeing our flaws. Why can’t we reconcile that and be OK with being vulnerable?
Kiss and Tell: The crucial chapter to your story
The week before my ski vacation, the clip on my climbing skins broke. This clip is a small plastic piece that is essential to the success of my upcoming trip and is not available locally, so I turned to my friends at Skimo Co in Salt Lake City, whom I've raved about in the past. I know they can be relied upon when it comes to matters such as this immense first world problem, and take it very seriously.
Actions Speak Louder than Marketing
After 15 years as a customer with Intuit’s Quickbooks, they wouldn’t let me leave them. And it took me forever to break up finally. The break up has been a long time coming, but it’s not easy migrating bookkeeping software, and I have a host of other reasons why I didn’t leave them until Bench came along in my Instagram feed, no less, and swept me off my feet.
