Helping folks with practical tips to manage themselves better
November 3, 2026
Feeling a roving sense of anxiousness? Feeling stressed? A lot of it comes from not keeping our attention on one thing at a time. You are eating breakfast while thinking about an email you have to send. You are on Read more…
November 1, 2026
A mentor of mine used to tell me, “Winners act like winners before they become winners.” You cannot wait to become a great writer before writing seriously. Or a great salesperson before preparing deeply. Or a leader before behaving like Read more…
October 26, 2026
The master was having a conversation with his disciple. The Master said, “Love is the best cure. Love is the most effective medicine for humans.” “What if it doesn’t work?”, the disciple asked. The master replied, “Increase the dose!”
October 22, 2026
I need to call the CEO of a company about a possible business opportunity. Simple enough. And yet the moment I think it, the mind starts working. Should I? Will he even want the call? This is something we have Read more…
October 21, 2026
Many of us treat information as though it were truth. It is not. Information can be incomplete, biased, second-hand, misunderstood, or simply wrong. Truth is harder. It takes time, effort, and honest digging to get to it. And that matters Read more…
October 18, 2026
Zeno had spent years building his life as a merchant. Then, on a voyage carrying a valuable cargo, his ship was wrecked. By the time he reached Athens, much of what he owned was gone. For a while, he wandered Read more…
October 13, 2026
Some of life’s hardest decisions come from the fact that two opposing things can be true at the same time. You can trust your team and still verify the details. You can be confident in a decision and remain open Read more…
October 12, 2026
Dear Dad, Everything is going well here at college this semester, so you can stop worrying. I am very, very happy now. . . you would love Ichabod. He is a wonderful, wonderful man and our first three months of Read more…
October 11, 2026
When you are building something genuinely new, one of the best things that can happen is for something to go wrong early. Not because failure is good in itself. But because early failure exposes assumptions while you still have time Read more…
October 8, 2026
We often respond to a difficult situation by trying harder. More meetings. More follow-ups. More people. More features. More hours. But more effort only helps if you’re going in the right direction. If you misunderstand the customer problem, building faster Read more…
