Go beyond selling If you want to be successful and sell, make the “design so engaging and compelling that people simply have to share it,” is what Ravi Sawhney, the founder and CEO of RKS says in his Fast Company blog post. He goes on to say, When you’ve done this, you just haven’t sold [...]
Why can existing be so hard? Why does it feel like you are fighting the inertia of the entire universe to have the life you want? I doubt you are using your innate capacity to fully live. In previous posts, I’ve written about the Whole Adventure or Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey as being an unconscious [...]
Image via Wikipedia Change requires determination, sometimes like that of a competitive endurance athlete. An article in National Geographic Adventure on how to get through adversity, tells the story of how Rosie Stancer attempted to be the first woman to travel solo to the North Pole. She didn’t achieve her goal, but she did survive—minus [...]
Are you wasting your crisis? Paul Romer, a Stanford Economist, first asked this question. Now I’m asking you. I remember working on a crisis hotline while in college long ago, training others to leverage callers’ crisis into changing their lives. There’s nothing better than a crisis to get someone’s attention. A crisis wakes you up. [...]
How to Make the Powerful Easy You have an instinctual ability to transform your life. Buried in your unconscious-Carl Jung would call it your Collective Unconscious-you have an urge to grow. With this urge comes a deep skill set analogous to your instinctual capacity to survive. When you get out of your way, or out [...]
Living a Passionate Life Passion is the fire that gets you moving. Without passion, all you do is get things done. You can achieve, but you need to ask yourself: Was the process fun? Did I end up where I wanted to end up? Did I grow or learn? My vision of creation is that [...]
What fuels your success? Is it a desire for money, possessions or fame? Do you hear a voice in your head telling you to get to work? We all have carrots and sticks propelling us forward. Sticks aren’t fun nor do they work well as we tend to resist them. And, the carrots-when we get [...]
This post is from a colleague of mine in the men’s work and personal development trainings. Dmitri Bilgere writes a simple, yet powerful way to transform our screw-ups into breakthroughs. Can you relate to this? On a beautiful winter day, my wife Fawn and I put our skis in the car and drove to a [...]
Does it give or take energy? What is your payout? Are you getting a return on your investment? Are you putting more energy into a task or relationship than you are getting out? If you’re like me, you’ve had situations that drained you. You know, the ones that you don’t look forward to. The ones [...]