There is some impressively sloppy thinking in and around entrepreneurship and personal development circles. I’m a fan of both entrepreneurship and personal development. But I’m also a fan of sensible thinking. There are a few ideas that continue to travel around these communities that while great for selling books, courses…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about focus, alignment, and self-sabotage. This would be the longest FB post even if we went into all those topics but something kept standing out in recent weeks as I’ve been sifting through and sorting my business life… … overcomplicating is a key trait…

Life imitating cell phone chargers… I was sitting at my desk yesterday hammering the phones for work when I noticed my iPhone charger. It’s funny what you don’t notice when you’re in your own “fog of war”. I couldn’t help but think, what a perfect visual for the last 6…

I felt an emotion I hadn’t felt in a really long time. Maybe impulse is a better description of it. I was sitting at my desk, making calls for new clients, and I had an unmistakable desire to quit. I wanted to put the computer on sleep, get out of…

It’s Going To Take Longer Than You Think To “Make It” No matter how rational we tried to be when we got started down the road of entrepreneurship, a big part of the draw for us was the larger than life success stories we read or heard about. Those stories are indeed inspiring and ones we can and should model. The…

I talked to an old friend yesterday on the phone. We have short burst conversations on Facebook every now and again but it had been a while since we had a real-time, voice to voice chat. I called him to eat crow. My friend had passed me up in business…

A few years back I embraced an exercise I learned about from Chris Brogan where I choose three words that will act as my themes and focus for the upcoming year. For those interested in learning more about this exercise from Chris, here’s a nice summary of that. I started…

There’s very little I like about social media these days. Now and again though, something I see on one of the platforms that stops me in my tracks. That’s what happened yesterday in the form of a Facebook “memory”. It was a picture from 6 years ago. For whatever reason…

I’m a professional wrestling fan. I have been since I was a little boy. In professional wrestling as well as in other more up close and personal combat things, there is something called a submission hold. Normally a submission hold is something that puts someone in a very uncomfortable and…