How Goals Can Distract You From Success
In this blog post, I explore how goals might actually distract you from success and where you should place your focus instead. I apply this to relationships, careers, education, and sports.
Relationships
3 Steps for Building a High Performance Team
Building a high performance team starts with building the foundation for a high performance organization. This blog post discusses the three steps necessary to building this critical foundation so that you can unleash the potential of your team.
How to Gain Clarity and See New Opportunities
A couple of weeks ago I had a great conversation with a friend about finding the clarity to see new opportunities. Thinking back to when I made my decision to leave my corporate career, I really could not have ever imagined the journey that I have been on for the last four years. Although I […]
3 Ways that Interviewing is Like Dating
Three ways that interviewing with companies is just like dating. We can learn a lot about interviewing from our dating experiences and vice versa. Understanding these three similarities will help you become a stronger interviewer and maybe even help you with dating.
How to Create a Pipeline of Luck
The answer to this question is really quite simple: Just Show Up. Well, there’s a little more to it than that. You need to be prepared and proactive. Creating luck is all about putting yourself in the right places, at the right times, and doing the right things. This means accepting that invitation to join […]
Seize, Appreciate, and Understand “The Way” of Your Life
I just got home from watching an advanced screening of “The Way” (@theWaytheMovie) by Emilio Estevez, starring Martin Sheen. The movie, which opens this Friday, October 7, highlights the journey of Martin Sheen’s character through parts of Spain in his attempt to realize his son’s goal. His son, played by Emilio Estevez, died while beginning […]