Are you ready to try what you’re not sure you’re ready for?  To try what scares you? Are you ready to quit circling, take a position, and possibly be wrong?

Those who waste your time waste your life.  You cannot recover lost time. When others waste your time they are spending your life on their priorities, but the problem deepens when you waste your own time. It’s a quiet, self-inflicted tragedy to know what matters and still choose what doesn’t. 

It’s not what you dream It’s the life you build. There’s something very seductive about dreams and aspirations.  They cost nothing, and untested you are never wrong. They feel good to talk about. Online, they get you likes and a sense of identity without any of the effort of actually doing something; without the risk…

Don’t feed the trolls.  – Austin Kleon You know who they are.  The energy vampires who routinely create a context of negativity and fear, leaving you depleted after you engage with them.   Some likely live within your larger circle.  Create boundaries, don’t feed them.  Keep your interactions neutral, factual, and brief. No emotional hooks, venting,…

Self-help books compete for shelf-space and eyeballs.  Countless titles account for billions of dollars in yearly sales.   The industry grows in part because only a small percentage of motivated readers finish a self-help book and an even smaller percentage follow its recommendations.  They’re on to the next book before they’re done with the last. Change…

It’s not a lesser cousin of intelligence.  We need both smart people and quiet builders – that’s how empires are built. Resourcefulness is intelligence too; applied to people, time, and real problems – beyond just abstractions.  Ideas without follow-through go nowhere.  Execution without ideas goes nowhere in particular. Generating ideas and fulfilling them don’t compete,…