Virtue

Stand Up

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. — Thomas J. Watson, Jr What initially separates the leaders, changemakers, and heroes from everyone else [...]

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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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Getting Some Perspective On Your Epic Losses and Failures

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Cath Duncan of Remembering For Good. I know this is the season when we’re all supposed to be jolly, but for many people who’ve lost a loved one or whose business is failing, this is the toughest time of the year. Since we talk about life AND business [...]

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Choosing Engaged and Meaningful over Comfort

Nearly two years ago, Catherine Caine sent me this topic request: While going through the idea garden this morning, I came across it again. Given some of the things I’ve been thinking about and working on here recently, it’s prescient. So, better late than never, here goes. Comfort is over-marketed and over-rated. Most of the [...]

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The Deeper Level of My Mission

I haven’t been completely transparent with you about what I’m up to – thus far, you’ve only seen pieces of what I’ve been working on all these years. Even my last attempt at this in “What I’m Here to Do” muted the deeper level of my journey. The other day, Pam and I were talking [...]

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Living Like Hermit Crabs

Finding and re-creating yourself is a lifelong journey marked out in moments. It’s an apparent paradox: we’ll never be “there”, yet we’re always trying to get there. Patience and persistence keep this paradox taut. Patience helps us celebrate, appreciate, and acknowledge both what we have and that we’re in process. Persistence reminds us that we [...]

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Be Prepared To Make Bad Decisions

I’ve been thinking a lot about planning, decision-making, and execution lately. Okay, I always think a lot about those topics, but I’ve been thinking about them even more intently than usual. You’ve no doubt heard someone – maybe me or Seth or other tributes to failure – encourage you to fail fast and fail often if you [...]

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