Success is sloppy and messy looking. You get no style points for making your goal look sexy. Too often success looks like a newborn baby fawn trying to find its legs then less like the stories we hear and see of people meeting their goal with ease. What you will…
I love a good challenge, but not all challenges are created equally. A good challenge will stretch your abilities, not strain your abilities. A good challenge will motivate you where a bad challenge will crush you under the weight of its impossibility. What you will learn: What I love about…
Free and easy, two words we love to hear. But… There is a big downside when we think something should come easy or something that has always been easy is no longer easy. Our motivation can shatter and what was once enjoyable becomes drudgery. Don’t let this happen to you.…
There is something so rewarding about a perfect strike of an ax. As it connects with the flesh of the log, splintering cleanly through till the head plants itself snuggly into the chopping block. As satisfying as the perfect strike is, the opposite is equally as infuriating. What is the…
I used to think I was active… till my wife and I started fostering dogs, and that self-belief was shattered real quick. If you workout two, three, four times a week. You’re not that active. More importantly your not active enough to get results and still eat whatever you want.…
It is easy to go through the motions and not getting anything out of all those movements. What you will learn: Work with intent Click below to start the show, give your coffee a sweet, gentle blow to cool it down before siping it as you go. Your Fitness Sherpa, Did…
This is the third and final installment of “Good Systems and Good People” you can read about systems and systems creation by clicking the links. Today we talk about the people, your team, your family, or whatever fun name you use to call your employees. This group of people is…
It’s hard and that is ok because it is supposed to be. We complain when things are hard, we give up when things aren’t easy, and we don’t even try because it seems too challenging. It is hard to change, but because it is hard doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try.…
Last week I talked about the importance of having a system set up for your workplace. This week I’m talking about what a system is how to set one up that will work for you. System vs. Process It is easy to confuse systems with processes and processes with the…
This past week Darryl Drake, a wide receiver coach for the Pittsburg Steelers, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday. The response from coaches, players, and organizations sharing their thoughts, prayers, and lasting impacts that Darryl had on their lives was moving. As I was reading through the tweets and post, one…
