Eyes Forward

When you’re looking at a successful entrepreneur, remember that you’re looking at someone who has made a lot of mistakes in their time. They’ve bought the crap. They’ve bought into the crap. They’ve gambled. And lost. They’ve groped in the darkness and stubbed their toes a few times. They’ve reworked, reiterated, reframed, restarted, and revised. [...]

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Prove Them Right

It’s natural to lean on proving people wrong as a motivation to show up and do the work. They always said you couldn’t do it. They always said it couldn’t be done. They always said you were naive. You’ll show them. You’ll do it. This makes the world your enemy. This makes everything hard. No [...]

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Cultivate Your Truth, Cultivate Yourself

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One of the reasons it’s important to speak and share your own truth is that it allows you to really hear and feel it in your bones. By “your truth,” I just mean what is, for you, right now. You’ll see. The counterintuitive truth of speaking your truth is that it’s usually not the [...]

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Build Something You’re Proud Of

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to watch the video.] Watching what everyone else is doing keeps you reacting to what you think is going on rather than what’s important – building something you’re proud of. I hope this video gives you the about face you need [...]

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When It’s Okay To Use People

Act that you use humanity, whether in your person or in another, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.- Immanuel Kant You’re using me right now. You’ve been using people all of your life. And, in most cases, that’s okay. The quote above is a translation of Immanuel Kant’s [...]

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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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Why You Want to Give (and Receive) Brutally Honest Advice

Editor’s Note: This a  joint blog post by Vlad Dolezal and Ali Luke. “Does my butt look big in this?” You rely on your friends for honest advice. Sometimes brutally honest.  You might be willing to show a close friend (or a coach, or a partner) something which is very much a work-in-progress — something which [...]

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The Elephant We Call Life

There’s an old Hindu story about some blind wise men that each want to experience what an elephant is. The man who feels the elephant’s tail thinks the elephant is like a rope. The man who feels the elephant’s trunk thinks it’s like a snake. The man who feels the elephant’s leg thinks it’s like [...]

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