How To Find Your Secret Treasure

How To Find Your Secret Treasure

I’m a planner. I enjoy the process of mapping out a project, finding the milestones, and then tracking the progress each step of the way. If I have a hobby, it’s likely geeking out with the latest project management and planning tools. Around the first of...
Why You Can't Be Normal

Why You Can't Be Normal

Time and time again, I’m reminded that a purpose-driven life requires one key sacrifice: giving up normal. Even when I’m not seeking them, I see examples of this principle everywhere. (Guess there’s something to that cliche about the master appearing...

Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life

During the last half of 2012, I struggled to do many of the things that were important to me. Maybe you’ve experienced that too. Perhaps it’s an unwritten book gnawing at you. Or a household to-do calls out every time you pass by. Or maybe it’s the...

Stay In the Ring with Your Resolutions

If you’ve already failed at one of your goals for the new year, that’s great news. It means you have a fresh perspective and new insights about the specific challenges of that goal. Instead of throwing in the towel, stay in the ring. Chances are, you...
Planning to Fail

Planning to Fail

I remember the week vividly. By Friday afternoon, I needed to submit our forecast and budget model for the upcoming year, probably my single biggest corporate project ever. In the 16 hour days, I couldn’t find the time or energy for writing – and I broke...

Learning How To Learn

There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don’t know. – Donald...

What If We Don't Lead?

Gandhi told us to “be the change you want to see.” John Maxwell teaches us that the first act of leadership is to start with yourself. As a leader, if I can get victory over myself, if I can fix John Maxwell, the odds are high I can help fix others. If I...