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…

If you hear either of these, be careful — I was seventeen years old when I found myself in the middle of a nearly impossible dilemma. There were two paths, and despite what Robert Frost once claimed, the road less traveled wasn’t really an option. …

How the Basics Can Transform The Ordinary Into Masterpieces — When people say picture your happy place, I think of a museum. More specifically, I think of an old museum where I can leisurely read each sign, gaze at every piece of art, and stand before each treasured item with no rush or distraction. So when I got to spend…

How You Can Grow by Going Outdoors. — My wife and I are on the National Parks bandwagon. We’re bought in. We’ve got an artistic checklist, a travel stamp booklet, and a wall full of patches from the parks we’ve visited. As of this writing, we’ve been to 28 of the 63 Parks. We’re not new to this…

Cultivating Inner Resiliency in an Age of Fragility. — “Only a person’s character is the real criterion of worth.” — Eleanor Roosevelt In a culture and society steeped in quick impressions and near-instantaneous judgments, it’s easy to fixate on the outward image. Though not inherently wrong, this is often done to the exclusion of what is inward, what some…

How to ensure you are growing up as you are growing older. — There’s a difference between getting older and growing up. I was once again reminded of this the last time I was on an airplane. My wife and I recently took a trip to Alaska as we’re continuing our journey of trying to visit all of the National Parks within the…