Some people do not like rocking the boat or challenging the status quo. This adherence to rules (both written and unwritten) is a perfectly reasonable sounding excuse to let yourself off the hook from putting a creative idea into action. “I’m not allowed to do it — it’s against the rules”. How can you creative […]
A while back I wrote an article with reasons why people fear new ideas. I recently shared the article with a new audience and a couple people asked me how I dealt with those fears myself and how I was able to overcome them with prospects who might be hesitating in moving forward with a […]
Are you the peanut butter to someone’s jelly? The cheese to someone’s crackers? The mustard to someone’s hot dog? When you’re in the right partnership with someone, you feel like you’re two halves of a whole. You partner with a person because you’re both better together than apart. As a partner your value increases exponentially […]
My friend Karan has been on vacation and spending a lot of time sitting on a beach in some southern resort area. She’d been posting photos of the ocean and the typical beach resort images, but today she captured one that is a visual philosophy lesson. Take a look at the featured image of this […]
You don’t think NASA just wheels a rocket out to the launch pad, counts backward from 10, and hits a big red button, do you? There is a lot of thought and preparation that goes into launching a rocket (and people!) into space. Launching ideas isn’t rocket science As opposed to launching real vessels into […]
What wisdom do you save — and where do you save it? Knowledge is fluid. It changes and evolves over time. It gets adapted to new situations and you need to find ways to save the information so that you can access it on-demand when you need it the future. Although I’m a “journal guy” […]
Back when we were all still allowed to travel further than the length of our driveway and taking a vacation meant more than sitting in a lawn chair in your backyard, my favorite place to escape to was Hawaii. Anytime we travelled to Oahu, my wife and I always made time to visit the Moana […]