Create The Future

There are many resources for the “how” of anything. If you want to be more productive, successful, have better relationships, get promoted, start a business, . . . and on and on, there’s no shortage of resources that will lay out exactly what you must do to have whatever it is you want. They are…

Any regular reader of this blog knows I am a big Seth Godin fan. I just read another great post on his blog (you can read it here). In the post he talks about the resistance of (certain factions in) business to important changes. One example being the elimination of child labor and the complaint…

I was having a conversation with a friend who I hadn’t seen in a while. As I’m wont to do, I started offering my thoughts on living well, how our lives work and all that. He listened patiently, and might even have gleaned something useful from my blabbering. Something I mentioned, that seemed to pique…

This a post from the amazing Seth Godin (for my consumption as much as anyone’s):   What you waiting for? I’m not asking in the usual hectoring, pushing sense of asking you to hurry up and get started. I’m genuinely, rhetorically curious. What, exactly, are you insisting will happen before you start shipping your art? Write it…

It just occurred to me that maybe I’ve never really understood “motivation.” Oh sure, I’ve learned that it’s better to be inspired than motivated and better to motivated than coerced. But what is motivation, really? Motivation isn’t something real or actual. It’s a word that describes what happens when one puts a motive into action….

Today’s post is a blatant rip-off of a mentor – but his words are so perfect, his message so on-point, I had to share it in its entirety. In an e-mail from Steve Chandler this morning, I found this gem of a message: If I walked in to your home office today I would find other…