Category: Personal Growth

It’s interesting the ways we isolate ourselves emotionally from each other. If we gauged only by Facebook posts and polite dinner party conversations it would appear everyone but ourselves has their life figured out and put together, their marriage/job/family/relationships/community working Continue reading “Our Hidden Secrets”

I love this metaphor of the “authentic swing” as told by Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance. All the coulda’s and woulda’s and shoulda’s that can rob us of being the person we were born to be. When I think of the people who have most inspired me, they are always people who Continue reading “Authentic Swing”

My definition of an epic life is to be awake and aware every day.

Routine is the enemy of time – it makes it fly by. When you’re a kid, everything is astonishing and new. So your brain is awake and turned on. As Continue reading “Turn 100 Years Into 1,000”

I heard a statistic recently that 70% of high performers engage in some form of meditation or mindfulness practice. From business to athletics to performers to creatives, this is a real thing for high performance. Continue reading “Chatterbox”

In the recent box office hit A Star is Born, the main character, Jackson Maine – who is a national rock star – says, “Music is essentially twelve notes between any octave. Twelve notes and the octave repeats. It’s the same story told over and over, forever. All any artist can offer the world Continue reading “A Star Is Born”

I was inspired recently watching the movie Tomorrowland and wanted to learn more about the Cherokee story about the Two Wolves. I love the story but learned that what appears in the movie is only piece of the actual story that was passed down by Native American Cherokee elders. In fact, the Continue reading “A Deeper Story”

That scene in I Am Legend when Will Smith talks about Bob Marley.

“[Bob Marley] had this idea. Kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you Continue reading “Light Up the Darkness”

Many people have applied their attention to one of Zig Ziglar’s famous quotes:

“Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.” Continue reading “All Over The Board”

I regularly consider the question: “If I look back when I’m 80 years old, will I regret not having done this?”

It’s been a helpful perspective that has helped me gain clarity on some key Continue reading “A New Filter”

Improvisation teams train and practice together, building trust and confidence in one another for that moment in front of the audience. One technique used by great improv teams is ‘Yes, And…” It works like this: whenever one person makes a statement, regardless of how bizarre, Continue reading “Yes, And…”