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With only 4 seconds left in the 2012 WCAC Championship game, we found ourselves down one with the ball at mid-court. If we score, senior James Robinson will become the first...

Rick Simmons recently told me about an ultra-running event he had done in Cleveland: A twenty-four-hour race. Wait, what? Sound impossible? How about if I told you it was...

Make a list of five failures in your life that felt significant at the time. Now, determine what, if anything, resulted out of those failures. Here’s what I’m guessing...

The word burnout was first used to describe an exhaustion of emotional strength around 1970. It’s now a syndrome officially recognized by the World Health Organization....

I feel anger, disappointment, and envy like anyone else. But I’ve worked hard to develop the skills to manage and process these emotions effectively. Here’s the process I...

Maybe you’re the vice president of your company. Maybe you make a six-figure income. It doesn’t matter how successful you are in your career— You might still be stagnating....

Reinvention is a provocative word. But it doesn’t mean lighting fire to everything and watching it burn. It refers to something that we all need: A process of risk,...

Our career paths, relationships, and lives  are rarely on a straight trajectory.  We have times when we’re climbing and falling. But contrary to what you might expect, the...

What does it mean to be a professional? Well according to Dictionary.com, it means “engaged in a specified activity as one’s main paid occupation rather than a hobby or...

When Michael Phelps’s goggles broke during the Beijing Olympics, he still won. Why? For the same reason that I plan for problems to arise anytime I give a keynote:  If...