GETTING A TREE TO TUMBLE With ax in hand, you approach a towering tree. Your intention is to chop it down. It’s a big task, but with the right approach you know you can achieve your goal. You take your first swing of the ax. Making a nice divot in the tree bark you move …
Category Archives: Habits
Consistency Over Passion
CONSISTENCY OVER PASSION Passion. It’s one of those elusive, somewhat undefinable words that is regularly used in the form of advice, articles, and “key to success” speeches. People tell us to find our passion, and how that will lead to successful careers. People tell us to use passion as our motivator every day, driving us …
The Freedom Of Structure
The freedom of structure. Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Those two don’t belong in the same sentence, or so I used to think. But over the past several years of managing sales teams and sales pipelines, starting companies, and studying personal growth, I’ve realized there truly is nothing more freeing than structure. Here’s why. When …
Filling The Glass
FILLING THE GLASS Put a glass in front of you. Fill that glass with muddy or murky water. Look through the glass and try to see through to the other side. You can’t. There is simply too much stuff in the way to do it. The glass is our mind. The water is our thoughts. …