Online sidelines.

  So this site languished for a solid 3 or 4 months as I continued to work on other projects both at work and some projects I am pursuing outside of work. Back in 2017, I spent a fair amount of time with a couple of different coaches, and in all cases the need for […]

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You have to bleed on the page…

This is the first post responding to a couple of questions from friends and colleagues that generally have sounded like this:   What’s up with all the posts on Facebook dude? Is everything okay? When did you come up with the idea? Why are you doing this?   In nearly every case, I’ve not truly […]

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Career mentors, a roll call of inspiration and aspirations.

NOTE:  For this post – I’m deliberately cutting the timeline off of this role call to mid 2016, as I still have a number of mentos prior to this period that I’m working with today – let alone the team I joined while at Virtustream.   Over the years, I have been incredibly blessed in so […]

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Questions strung together? Do you have a similar challenge?

Core challenges in your work life?  What about your personal life?  Do you even separate the two?  When do you take a fresh look at the challenges that you have?  Do you take a spin through them to determine what could be at the root of the issues?  Or do you persist forward, largely shoving […]

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Where to Start? Do 1 Thing, Today.

Just over a year ago, I took an online course taught by Kelly McGonigle at Stanford University.  The course was focused on willpower, and the basis of the course was the book that she authored a few years back titled, The Willpower Instinct.  There are a number of reasons why I sought this out as […]

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One Trip Per Year or Quarterly Retreats?

Back when I used to work at Subway in high school, I had a friend that was working there as a second job with a very interesting guiding principle – he promised himself that he would learn one new skill per year and take at least one trip to a new location per year.  I […]

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