I grabbed some string and tied it around its base, then hung my acorn from my rearview mirror, and now I see it every day. Booyah. Wait, what? An actual acorn? Yep! It swings and dangles as I drive, and … Read More
Community and Rituals. This Quarter, I’ll Focus On These Three Things.
New Years, it’s my favorite holiday! So much NEWNESS! New month, new year, and this time…new DECADE!!! Welcome to the new 20’s! Interestingly for me, on the first day of the year, I woke up with an accidental mantra in … Read More
Speak Your Goals, Take Action & Make Them Happen
I recently started to employ slightly outrageous strategy to create new goals, think bigger, create new possibilities, and make abstract goals more concrete. Interested? Read on. Disclaimer: This post may be seen as sacrilegious. Not my intention at all. Much … Read More
Trust the Universe
Is this thing going to hold me up? What if I fall? What happens if it breaks? How often are safety checks conducted? How high is this really going? We’re going THERE?! How fast would I die if I fell? … Read More
5 Powerful Discoveries from Reading a Book Every Day
Even now, I can hear my instructor berating us in staff meetings: “What are you reading? Readers are leaders! Do you want to influence your students? Make sure you’re feeding yourself!” And he is absolutely right. You may not be … Read More
The First You Or The Second Who?
We’d all like to think that we are making a difference. Most of us want to feel special; unique. One of the six human needs is significance. So, for those of us who rate it at the top of our … Read More
Peace or Panic. You Get to Choose.
For more than the entirety of my adult life, I have worked on Saturdays. Like, allll Saturday long. Usually from 8am until 7pm. Sometimes later. It’s just what you do as a martial arts instructor. Classes go from 9am-1pm, we … Read More
How Do I Get Over Hearing “No”?
It goes like this: 6 Steps to Getting Everything You Want In Life Ask Ask again. Ask again. Ask again. Ask again. Start over. Ask. Then ask again. And when they say no, ask again. Maybe not the same way … Read More
Sometimes, It’s Good to Lose
We all have that one person that we compare ourselves to, that one team that consistently wins, that one entrepreneur that irritates you to no end when you see them succeed. Right?! Maybe it’s a brother. Maybe it’s your friend. … Read More
The Destination Lasts a Second, But the Journey…
Ramblings from my journal this morning. Stay focused on the goal. What’s the goal? More businesses? More companies? No…The JOURNEY is the goal. Not the destination. There is no, “Once you accomplish X, then you will have arrived,” or, “once … Read More