Life

From Reset to Reintegration

In the last part of this story, I shared the lead-up to the reset. In case you haven’t been following, the reset occurred because Angela (my wife) developed acute and debilitating anxiety, OCD, and depression as a result of a combination of medication and several years’ worth of unresolved grief and stress. If you have [...]

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The Lead-up to the Reset

Yesterday I shared our experience with having to reset Angela and coming out of a different kind of darkness. This continues that story and shows more clearly how we got there. We tend to have a myopic view of our lives, only focusing on the few months before the present we’re in and a few [...]

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Out of a Different Kind of Darkness

I’m going to share a hard story with you about what’s been going on behind the scenes. It’s a story of struggle, perservance, and slow triumph and it’s still in-progress. I’m breaking it into parts both for readability and so that I’ll start sharing it sooner rather than later. On September 30th, 2011, our world [...]

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Work-Life Balance: Waking Up To The Real Problem (Part II)

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michael Van Osch of ThinkTankMen.com. In Part I of this series, I talked about the real issue behind what we commonly call a lack of work-life balance. In many cases, work-life balance is referred to as the root cause for being unfulfilled, unhappy and burnt out, when in reality, [...]

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Work-Life Balance – Waking Up To The Real Problem (Part I)

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michael Van Osch of ThinkTankMen.com. “Work-life Balance. Work-life balance. Work-life balance.” You hear about it a lot. And given some recent stats that show only 20% of Americans are passionate about what they do for a living, it’s hardly surprising that work-life balance is a major topic [...]

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A Different Past Would’ve Changed You – So What?

We’re just coming back from our fourth Lift Off Retreat – more on that later, as I’ll keep my tradition of doing the post-Lift Off wrap-up as a video post – and, for something special and different, we asked Tim Berry to join us and talk about the more personal side of business building. Tim [...]

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My Second Run At Being A Captain

I found myself missing being in the Army last week. When Angela found out about it, she didn’t find herself missing us being in the Army, so a constructive and transformative conversation followed. To explain what I was missing, though, I’ll have to give you some background. My last two positions in the Army were [...]

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What I Believe

I believe … that we should measure our worth in lives changed rather than dollars made. we each have something to contribute to the world and it’s our life’s work to find the best ways to do it. there’s more than enough for everyone if we use our imagination to share rather than to hoard. [...]

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Join Us For A Twitter Block Party

I’ll be hosting a Twitter block party on Thursday, April 21st at 8pm EST. Pam Slim and Jonathan Fields will be my guest conversants and we’ll be talking about how to live a fun, creative, and thriving life. There’ll be some free prizes, too, but you’ll need to participate to win. It’s a free-to-participate event. [...]

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