Last summer I attended Quitter Conf with 200 other people pursuing their dreams. The host, Jon Acuff, challenged us, “Give yourself permission today to be your secret self.” Just for the day. Just at the conference. Let yourself be the person you deeply wish you were. What would you be? What would you be [...]
Fighting The Resistance
Lately I’ve been carrying a list of my top short-term goals in my pocket. It’s so easy to get distracted and to come up with new “urgent” things I need to be working on. If I’m not careful I’ll wind up racing from one shiny object to the next without ever really doing anything. For [...]
Be the Worst, Now
I stared blankly back at the fourteen JV high school boys huddled around me. The game was set to start in two minutes and they wanted to hear what their coach had to say. It’s time for last minute instructions. It’s time to instill in them the confidence that they were prepared for this. But [...]
One Bad Idea Away from Hobo
I’ve been thinking about doing some coaching through Life Stoked lately. I’m passionate about helping people succeed and it’s something I’m good at too. But then I thought some more… What if I put myself out there as a coach and it doesn’t work out? Suddenly LifeStoked.com isn’t a resource helping people succeed, it’s a [...]
Finding Your Passion
To reach the highest levels of success you’ve got to be doing something you’re passionate about. No surprises there really. To me that tip was always about as helpful as “you’ve got to be saving more if you want to be rich.” Yea. Thanks. But I’ve got a mortgage, car payments, and a family to [...]
Things I Will Not Blame
As long as you blame other people for the fact that your dreams haven’t come true, you’ll never really work on your dream. These are people or things I will no longer blame: 1. My busy schedule 2. My position at work 3. My lack of experience 4. My fear of failure 5. My lack of [...]
