Experiences

When I was writing my book, Do a Day, I had written a fairly long and, let’s just say, impassioned section on drinking alcohol. It was a bit of an aside that took the chapter down a path of less coherence and strength, and my editor rightly suggested taking it …

Here’s why having goals mean you can’t have chance encounters with opportunity I was recently did a podcast appearance where the host asked me a challenging question I had never really contemplated before when I was talking about setting meaningful goals. He asked if all the setting and focusing on goalsremoved any opportunity …

When I started work on my book, Do a Day, I had a vision of being on stage doing a TED talk. on March 6th, that vision became a reality. Well, mostly. My vision was to be on the big TED stage, and I did a TEDx event, but it’s close …

Human nature makes change hard to deal with for any employee, but you can overcome that and lead your team forward. Have you ever been given a short cut from your normal route only to feel like it took much longer than your normal route? Have you looked at the …

Learn the surprising reason doing less actually helps you achieve more and get farther in your career. If you said the biggest thing standing in the way of a company’s success is its competition, you’d be wrong. In fact, it is the daily ‘stuff’ that flies at you, demanding to get done as …

Building your social media brand is not about tricks and tools. It’s about these 4 things. I published my first book last March, which was an amazing achievement and the culmination of almost a year and a half of serious effort. The effort to successfully promote it can be even greater than to write …

Oncs, I was at an offsite meeting for work at an amazing resort in the Poconos. I’s never been to the area before, but it’s similar to much of the Northeast—beautiful, not-over-populated, wooded areas. That includes having some great spots to run in, including a gorgeous PGA golf course across …

Mentors can help you build your career as a leader, but to really help you grow, they may need to be tougher than you want. Having a mentor can have a tremendous impact on your career. The right one can help guide you through complex situations, work on self-growth and …

Think being a road warrior means you cannot be in shape? Follow these three principles to stay healthy no matter how much you travel. I’ve traveled a lot over my career. It’s often an every-week situation with two to four flights, hours of driving, multiple hotels, early mornings and late …

There’s a surprising lesson I learned from having a lot of surgery that helped with fundraising for a startup–find out the lesson to help your business. I, like many other people, have had surgery. Unlike many people I have had surgery 15 times. People always ask me what they were for, and …