The three things I most want to feel in my life are love, joy, and belonging. Belonging requires a sense of community. And community doesn’t appear out of nowhere. It takes work to build community or to become a part of existing communities. I use my social media channels to foster a sense of community […]
How to Make Decisions When Things Don’t Go According to Plan
We were about to hit a class 3 rapid at the end of our 12 mile run for the day on the McKinzie River. The four other rafts in our group had made it through and had a blast. There was just one problem: our boat was backwards. A class 3 rapid is defined as […]
The First Time is the Hardest Time
The fly landed softly. A quick ripple shot across the water, and the fly was gone. I pulled the floating line in with my left hand. I let the fish run a bit. It was a small one, so there wasn’t much fight. I did, however, feel a nearly endless sense of excitement. I pulled […]
What to Do When You Appear to Be Good at Everything
If you’re a jack of all trades, it probably means you have many talents and are able to master almost anything you put your mind to. That’s great in many ways, but it’s also dangerous if you want to make an impact through your work. It means you can go through life knowing that you […]
Three Simple Questions to Help Leaders Make Emotional Breakthroughs
Jerry Colonna might be the most empathetic person in business. If it were possible to make a living off the tears of founders and leaders everywhere… well he’s doing it. And I mean that in the best way possible. Jerry is a well-respected coach and advisor to founders and leaders of some of the most […]
We’re never done learning (#WDS2019)
James Todd hosts the best dinner parties. He likes to say he sees the treasure in people and then brings people together who will treasure each other. At these parties, we talk about things like our childhood traumas and how they’ve led to breakthroughs as adults, what moral of the story we would share if […]
How to Solve Problems When There are Seemingly Impossible Constraints
Barron Cuadro is the founder of Effortless Gent, where he helps men build confidence, land great jobs, and find long-term relationships by showing them how to look their best and feel great in the clothes they wear. In his spare time, Barron worked with his wife Kate to found their own fashion label, Fifth&Brannan to sell […]
Expertise: Why You Need it & How to Get it
Note: This is a post I originally wrote for Fizzle, where they teach aspiring entrepreneurs how to build small businesses that matter. Although you may not be an entrepreneur, the process of building expertise will still be valuable to you. I hope you enjoy. Andy Perdue stands over his desk, looking at 29-years’ worth of paraphernalia […]
Soul Work
Elizabeth Gilbert is one of the most well-known authors on the planet thanks to her bestselling memoir, Eat Pray Love. But long before she was even thinking about writing a bestselling book, Gilbert was focused on collecting experiences that would become the fodder for her body of work. Gilbert spent years traveling the country, working in diners […]
Ruckus Makers
Making a ruckus. It’s a term I adopted into my own vocabulary after I heard it from Seth Godin. He used it to describe the kind of change he wants to create. He wants to push as many people as possible to make a ruckus What’s a ruckus, you ask? Anything that changes people. Any […]