Category: Motivation

  • Later Syndrome Strategy

    Yesterday I sent out an email regarding “Later Syndrome” and “Tomorrow Takedown”. Today I wanted to share a simple strategy I found to be useful to break the “Later Syndrome” or the “Tomorrow Takedown”. I call it the “Finite Focus” countdown timer.  When my kids asks to play with me, I ask myself, “Does what…

  • I’m a “Later Syndrome” Sufferer

    “Daddy can we play Legos?”  “Later.” “Daddy can you build something with me?” “I can’t right now, maybe later.” “Daddy want to color with me?”  “Hey Buddy, I’m working right now. Later.”   This is an actual conversation I had with my son. I started to notice that my conversations were like this daily. It…

  • Caught In the Bathroom!

    “Daddy, I need to go to the bathroom,” said Amelie. “Me too.” replied Mandy. So I get them in the cart and run across Whole Foods. After a good strong push I hop on the back of the cart and send the cart cruising down the main aisle.  The kids have a smile ear to…

  • Car Crashes Into Light Pole

    A car cuts you off in the highway and you are headed towards a light pole. What do you do? More importantly, where do you look? A few years back I worked with an Indy race car driver. These athletes have a level of precision driving that seems miraculous. I asked him how he was…

  • The Master Sculptor

    What do David, Venus De Milo, and the Pieta all have in common?   They are 3 of greatest marble sculptures ever created. These masterpieces were trapped inside marble slabs until their sculptor freed them.   What if I told you that you could sculpt something more beautiful, more unique, more important? Let me share…

  • Do you believe?

    Would you die for your beliefs? I know it is a tough question but the answer to this question will change your life. This Sunday I was in mass and the priest was giving his homily. He asked us this same question. He spoke of the killings of Christians that refused to convert to Islam…

  • Stuck on the Great Wall of China

    The Great Wall of China can be seen by astronauts from space. Imagine looking up the 26 foot face of the wall. Then you look left and right only to see the wall slither across the countryside for 5,500 miles.  Your freedom lies on the other side of the wall. What do you do? The…

  • Growth through suffering

    20 miles into the race I felt a gripping and ripping feeling though my left hamstring. The hot sun was beaming down over the open prairie and I still had another 30 miles to run. Stop or Press on? At 9 hours and 38 minutes I crossed the finish line and finished my first ever…

  • Adders and Multipliers

    Yesterday was my 34th birthday. The day before my birthday I felt down. I was feeling emotionally drained, a bit lost, a bit frustrated, a bit defeated. I woke up on my birthday, February 25th (mark that on your calendar), at 4 am. I saw some of my great clients and my mood lifted. I…

  • how do you wake up?

    “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun…

>