“A good plan violently executed is better than the perfect plan executed next week.” –George S. Patton I have a confession to make—I love researching stuff. And in the...

Bill is a hard-charging executive who finds it easy to say “no” to people, but often offends people with his harsh delivery. Susie is a gifted middle manager who loves...

“Technological progress has merely provided us with a more efficient means for going backwards.” –Aldous Huxley The Big Idea: According to research, constantly checking our...

Herds of buffalo are extremely loyal followers of one leader. They do what the leader does, they go where the leader goes. If the leader isn’t there, they stand around not...

“Old Heraclitus, who was indeed a very great sage, discovered the most marvelous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it...

“Keep close to nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in a while, climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” –John Muir Last week my family...

“We buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like.” –Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club One of my good buddies drove his car longer than...

A while back, one of my mentors told gave me some important life advice, “you have to read what you want to become.” Life is short, and the books we choose to read with our...

“It is in the character of very few, to honor without envy, a friend who has prospered.” –Aeschylus There is a famous story about the Buddha which teaches an essential life...

“The single biggest problem in human communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” –George Bernard Shaw Thanks to my colleague Dr. Kari Glenn for sharing this...

“You either learn to manage money, or the lack of that skill will manage you for the rest of your life.” –Dave Ramsey At the start of a new year and after the holiday...

“A wise person can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” –Bruce Lee A few years ago I read a passage in a book from one of my...

If you have not seen the TV show Alone, it is one of my favorites, and well worth watching. For those of you unfamiliar with Alone, it is an American survival competition...

*Photo by Gautier Salles “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than hanging on.” –Eckhart Tolle Aron Lee Ralston was born on October 27, 1975, in...

Louis Zamperini was a skinny and scrappy kid from California—nicknamed the “Torrance Tornado” for his incredible speed in running events. If you haven’t heard of him yet, I...

On November 19th, 1955, British naval historian C. Northkote Parkinson published a humorous article in The Economist with a lengthy title: Politicians and taxpayers have...

“The best measure of leadership is whether you create more leaders.”—John Maxwell You place a very low ceiling on your leadership potential if you don’t take the time to...