Is it the mountain ahead, or the stone in your shoe? We get focused on climbing the mountain, and miss the pebbles that trip us up. Pay attention to the small stuff too.

What has to die? What in your life has to die for you to more fully thrive and be alive?    What has to be destroyed in order to create the better you? Is there a habit you need to jettison?  An attitude you need to change?  An ego that needs to be checked? Unless you…

Question assumptions Many of our plans are founded on bad assumptions.  Faulty assumptions lead to faulty plans that lead to faulty execution. We fail to ask ourselves the tougher questions – the how and why and what (or better, the so what?) of our thinking and planning.  We fail to go deep – to think…

Those five extra minutes When you get five minutes to spare, what do you do?  Do you slack, or snooze? Or do you try something intentional?  Like that phone call you’ve been putting off.  Or that email or letter?  Maybe a few extra pages to read, or time in your journal.  Maybe meditating to get…

Don’t ask more. Ask better. Then shut up and listen. You never learn anything while you’re the one talking.