Did you now that there are many more messages going from the gut to the brain than the other way around? Why is that? Could it be that our guts are sometimes in the driver’s seat of our wellbeing? Curious? Read on. It’s not hard to make the case that our physical...

When we picture the attributes of a high performer, we commonly think of words like confidence, influence, energy, and other associated ideas. But in all our excitement about these high-performance buzz-words, we may overlook foundational attributes that are just as...

John Wooden was arguably the greatest coach in sports history.  His teams won an NCAA record, seven national basketball championships in a row, and ten national championships in a twelve-year period.  When people asked him how he was so successful, he often said it...

We all know what it feels like—that churning you get in your stomach before an important performance. You may have felt it before a sports competition, in a new role at work, or during a high stakes test.  The truth is, we all have nerves and feel stress when we’re...

My phone rang just after midnight. It was my buddy, Chris. “I screwed up dude—I think it’s over.” Groggy, and a little bugged that I he was calling me so late, I tried to collect my thoughts. I spent an hour earlier that evening telling Chris that he should give his...

"Just like me, this person knows what suffering feels like… Just like me this person wants to be of use in the world, but also knows what it’s like to fail. You don’t need to ask them if you are right. If they are human, you are right. All you need to do is choose to...

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily." ~ John C. Maxwell   When Fall rolls around, much like New Year, I find myself doing a mini “reboot” of sorts. For me, as kids head back to school and all the tomfoolery of summer fades...

“Perfect is the enemy of Good”  ~Voltaire I remember the first time I led the launch of a major website back in the 1990s. Launching this site was a vast job and I really wanted everything to be PERFECT. We spent months planning, designing for every contingency while...

The idea of “cutting some slack” to another person or giving another the “benefit of the doubt” is a personal ideal for me. I have spent more than twenty years of my career in high-tech companies and have experienced many different corporate cultures. One early...