Weekly Newsletter
Tag: accomplish a goal
Week #8, 2025
It hasn't always been this way, and it won't always be this way. What way it will be is up to the people who choose to lead. That SHOULD BE YOU!
Week #3, 2025
Week #3 of 2025 has arrived. Wow. And just like that we are 5.76923077 percent through 2025. Does it surprise you how "little" 5 percent of the year is? 2025 is a flash in the pan. Enjoy it! Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? I got an email "thank you" from a reader this week. She was specifically thanking me for four sentences that hit her at just the right moment earlier this year. I had forgotten that I wrote them. But they bear repeating as we all try to make a fresh start this year. Don't carry anything into the new year that isn't serving your purpose. Here are the...
Week #2, 2025
Week #2 of 2025 has arrived. And just like that the starting pistol has sounded, all of the anxiety about starting the race is over, and now we are in the middle of the beginning of the New Year. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? I love the holidays, but I’m not sad that they’re over. This year especially felt more fraught than usual. I heard a similar refrain from a lot of folks my age. A break in the routine is important, but you know what is more important? Loving your routine. If you don’t enjoy your day to day… if you NEED the escape of weekends, vacations and holidays… changing...
Week 30, 2024
If there are people around you, and you want to make their lives better, help them move forward... and for yourself... make a plan and start marching down the path of your own creation.
April 21, 2024
When a person is set against adversity, where success is improbable, either as a team or an individual, and they rise to the occasion, it fills us up and makes us proud to be human... regardless of the skill level.
Week 52, 2023
Your life is a project. It is a complex, multi-dimensional initiative that would require a department of 100 people to successfully bring to market. But... you are just one person, not a department of 100...
Week 46, 2023
Certainly the structure of our world isn't fair, and clearly, when the deck is literally stacked against you, and when the culture you exist in is built to keep you down, "I think I cans" have to hit a bit different. But... even if you start on home base, or in the dugout, or in the parking lot... I still believe that: believing in yourself, holding yourself accountable, having a forward-focused attitude, pushing yourself beyond what you think you can accomplish, and hustling matters.
Week 37, 2023
When I was young, I couldn't understand when people would say "You can't have light if you don't have dark, no life without death." As I have gotten older, I have slowly been able to wrap my head around how a thing defines itself by an opposing force... But I still don't like it.
Week 36, 2023
I think I have spent the last year thinking "Don't hit the rock!" about various creative and business ventures. And I am going to try to be done with that. It's going to take some reminding, and some mental habit adjusting, but I have confidence that I am ready to move on to "find the path."
Week 35, 2023
I have been pulling the Massive Action Society together, and it is a lot of moving pieces. A lot of systems need to be "just so" so that everything happens the way it is supposed to. I am trying to channel my inner Oliver Burkeman. He mentioned this strategy on The Drive podcast last week. Instead of being focused on the outcome, anticipating and hoping and angling... try to be curious. "I wonder what will happen."