Lessons from a Donkey

by | Jun 15, 2011 | Entrepreneurship, Faith, Leadership

I’ve noticed an interesting trend. Around the anniversary of each decade, my life seems to take a major turn. At 11, my mom became sick, and our world flipped upside down. At 21, I was recently divorced and launched my first business. Just before my 30th...

My Secret Belief

by | Jun 2, 2011 | Writing

I’m a minimalist, at least that’s the best word I can think of to describe it – an odd combination of compulsive organization and extreme selectiveness. Aside from people, nearly everything that’s important to me fits in my backpack. When we...

One Sentence for Today

by | Jun 1, 2011 | Leadership, Writing

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Ultimately, success and leadership is not dependent on ideas, tasks,...

15 Minutes to Live

by | May 31, 2011 | Writing

We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Fear. It’s the ultimate four-letter word. But if we’d only 15 minutes left on this earth, all would...