Everyone Can Build a Website
[fusion_youtube id=”https://youtu.be/_hkxDGQWNrw” alignment=”center” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”&rel=0″ hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube]It’s a new year. And New Years resolutions are flying. Invariably, two or three people reach out to ask me advice about building a website. I hear people say things like “I can’t do it.” Or “I’m not technical”. And it’s true. You do have […]
The Lessons of 2018…
[fusion_youtube id=”https://youtu.be/mLon8mbVwpk” alignment=”” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”&rel=0″ hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube]A pattern I noticed over the last few years is that each year seems to be book-ended by a theme. 2017 was about Extreme Ownership. Taking full responsibility for everything in my life. 2018 was about Self Awareness. So what did my self awareness teach me […]
Status Quo vs. Innovation
[fusion_youtube id=”https://youtu.be/Ok6ocEvb8PI” alignment=”” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube]I was bored out of my skull. I was an Engineer Level 1. Working at GM. Every few weeks, I spend 2 days running tests and collecting tons of data. Then I take that data into excel. My job was to create 20-30 different charts and […]
How Don Knotts Saved Christmas…
[fusion_youtube id=”https://youtu.be/PJ6p8FUcK4k” alignment=”center” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube]I stand in my parents living room, staring at the TV. I’m frustrated. Tired. I rub my eyes, look at the ceiling and sigh. That’s when I knew I couldn’t take it anymore. In the past few weeks I’ve been in Michigan, my parents have consumed […]
Bento Box
[fusion_youtube id=”https://youtu.be/BKDPFtga6eI” alignment=”center” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”&rel=0″ hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube]Between text messages, facebook alerts, new emails alerts … even phone calls from our pocket, everything is built to distract us. Everything vies for our attention. These distractions prevent me from being in the moment. Impacting my relationships. My time with the person that I’m with […]
Christmas isn’t Christmas …
[fusion_youtube id=”https://youtu.be/1idQ8-dGxIs” alignment=”center” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube]It was Christmas Eve. And the trap was set. Other kids told me. But I didn’t believe them. So I decided to set a trap. A trap that would tell me beyond a shadow of a doubt … if Santa was real. My plan was diabolically […]
The Impact You Have …
[fusion_youtube id=”https://youtu.be/dbiS_d0lMy8″ alignment=”center” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube] We never know who will be impacted by the small, minor actions that we take today. Or how they will be impacted. Many moons ago, a man sat at a desk for the Miami Herald. On the desk in front of him was package after […]
Unintended Consequences
[fusion_youtube id=”https://youtu.be/tgZMN5raTRg” alignment=”center” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube] It’s hard to envision or even understand the consequences of the decisions you make. Bigger decisions may illuminate some of the consequences. But it’s the unintended consequences that people always miss. Not all consequences are bad. Some are good. “How in the world did you […]
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Last night, my brain spun like a top. Probably why I slept so bad. Or because I forgot to pop my melatonin. My good friend Ryan wrote something yesterday that triggered my brain. It put things into real perspective. I’ll paraphrase it here, using my own numbers. On Facebook, I’ve written 189 of these posts. […]
The Energy File
Do I ever get tired of writing? Every single day, the blinking cursor on the screen laughs at me. Dares me to write something. Write something that people want to read. Something profound. When I do, I pull out my “Energy File”. I can’t explain my compulsion to write. It’s something that I just do. […]