There have been some profound tomes I have enjoyed throughout my life. If I were to pick a comedic work, it might be “Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole*. If I were to pick a novel that transported me to another time and place, it might be “Cannery Row” by John Steinbeck. If I were to pick...

What is COURAGE? To exercise courage, it's essential to know what you fear. To get in deep, it takes a High-Performance Coach. When you have an objective, skilled, confidant who is in your corner, you can identify your fears, and then you can address them. Sometimes all it takes then is just to put ...

I am deeply honored and humbled this week. I've had the opportunity to address an international audience in the most exotic of places. This opportunity, I've surmised, was not born from luck, but from a lifetime commitment to service, and the understanding that investment in others bears fruit indef...

Imagine you are at an outdoor concert and as you pick up to leave, you start to feel a bit off. You notice a numb sensation on your right side. You decide to sit down against a tree, but this doesn’t help. Your anxiety goes through the roof as you come to realize that you might be having a stroke. T...

“Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right,” is a broadly applicable line written by a recently departed favorite poet/lyricist of mine. More on him in a later post. But this week, while trolling Youtube for inspirational guitar content, I came across...

Two years ago, I was fascinated by the impactful stories attributed to ingrained habits when I read the book “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg. In it, he recounts countless examples of the negative and positive impacts of the habits we nurture or permit. At the time, I was mostly interested in ...

Personal histories are filled with a variety of characters past. All of them have stories that inform us of who we are, and what we’ve learned. Some characters are elemental to our make-up. Some characters we’d rather forget, but are as important. Some we learn more about as time passes, and after t...

An associate of mine recently wrote that the concept of one's PURPOSE is ephemeral and elusive. I get that. Finding one's PURPOSE is quite a profound and lofty ideal. Unless we are the Dali Lama (Rule Tibet, but in exile to be an inspiration of Buddist life), Tom Brady (Find the open man, or drive e...

Whether we know it or not, every action we take has a ripple effect of INFLUENCE over everyone with whom we interact. It's a great power, and it requires great responsibility.

For many of my clients, the sessions on INFLUENCE and PERSUASION are sometimes perceived in a maleficent light. Many people...

In my experience, COURAGE encompasses a complex process of realization, recognition, and response. An understanding of this process allows one to strategize and execute through challenge and discomfort. 

There are courageous acts of all kinds. In the movie “Free Solo,” the extraordinary climb of...