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How to Expand Your Inner Circle to Expand Your World
There’s nothing wrong with the familiar, but if your social circle is made up of the same people for going on ten, twenty years, it could be contributing to your stagnation....
How to Reach Out for Help and Support
At an event in Utah, I met Larry Yatch, a veteran Navy Seal who once worked in the Middle East. After a decade with them, an injury led to his retirement and now he speaks...
How to Reinvent Yourself and Your Work
Reinvention is a process of risk, adaptation, and evolution. It means giving yourself permission to change, to see your world through new eyes, to see yourself through new...
How to Take Control and Get Your Power Back
Don’t forget this age-old truth: If nothing changes, nothing changes. Change is a requirement of growth and development. Unfortunately, change is hard. It causes discomfort....
How to Turn Off Cruise Control and Avoid Stagnation
Our career paths (as well as our relationships and lives) are rarely on a straight trajectory. We have times when we’re climbing and times when we’re falling. Then there are...
Use Stress to Your Advantage
When I was 12 years old, I got my black belt in Tang Soo Do. The test had 3 primary components: forms, which was like a ‘dance’ of choreographed moves that required...
How to Stay Poised Under Pressure
Iconic motivational speaker Wayne Dyer pulled out an orange at one of his talks and asked, “When you squeeze an orange, what comes out?” The audience paused, unsure what he...
3 Reasons I’m Doing Standup Comedy
A couple of years ago I made a commitment to always have something on my calendar to train for (and something fun to look forward to). To have something on the horizon that...
How to Make Preparation Your Separation
Preparation is a sign of respect. Respect for others, respect for your craft, and respect for yourself. High performers - in sports and in business - take their preparation...
The Best Live Present
The best basketball players on the planet are able to Play Present and the best leaders on the planet are able to Live Present. What does that mean? It means they do 3...