Fixing Your Morning Pep Talk — For 80% of my life, I haven’t been a coffee drinker. That’s a passing grade in school, but a failing grade in life. The last 20% has been bliss. And addiction. And weaning. And jittery bloodshot eyes. But mostly bliss. Being a relatively new coffee drinker comparatively, there are many…

Shifting your direction in 10 seconds — If you want to become a better writer, this is an easy way to subtly but powerfully shift your train of thinking. Every time you have a conversation with someone, you’re willingness to listen and absorb what they are saying falls somewhere on a spectrum from “I’m loving this conversation”…

Learning to Make Peace with My Speech Impediment After Nearly 3 Decades — You likely haven’t said it, but you’ve almost certainly heard it. The joke that never really feels like a joke, that’s spurred on by a certain level of shared discomfort and uneasiness at the situation at hand. “T-t-t-t-t-today, junior!” If you watched the clip, you’ll see that yes, the teacher…

A new topography, NICU nights, and practice over production — My wife gave birth to identical twin girls in June of this year. I realized very quickly after our girls were born that every piece of advice that I’d been given on how fast time goes was truthful, and ultimately, undersold. It’s been a blur, and it’s been brilliant all…

What Longevity Can Teach You About Living Well — According to the data, if you’re between the ages of 25 to 34, it’s likely that you’ve been working at your current job for less than 3 years. Off the bat, you might think that has something to do with the unprecedented times we’re still coming through. The “Great Resignation”…

Positioning Yourself to Become the Best Leader by Being the Best Follower — Everyone, deep down, likes the thought of being the leader of something. You might want to lead your Neighborhood Association. Or a project at work. Or your kid’s softball team. Or maybe you want to lead Congress. Or the UN. Maybe you want to lead your courtroom, your family, or…

A Review of My 20’s as I Step Into My 30’s — “I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I am on the precipice of entering a new year of life. In all reality, it’s no different than any…

3 Standards to Aim at and Grow Towards — Think of the man you most respect in this world. What stands out about him? What is unique, that unspoken or hard to recognize element that lies deep below the surface and that buoys him against the otherwise raging and thrashing waves? Is it his gentleness? The way he has…

6 Routines to Reclaim Some Semblance of Structure as We Continue Operating in the Day-to-Day — When’s the last time you had a day where you felt like things went “right?” Where, as you laid down to sleep, you looked back over the day and thought, “yes, that is how I wanted my life to turn out”? Maybe a day is too long. When’s the last…