Starting Over In Martial Arts

I have been neglecting this blog for sometime. And a lot has changed since the posts that I started this blog with. I plan to be more on the ball with talking about my journey and my businesses (yep, I did say businesses). A general catch up post will be coming very soon. “Growth and comfort do not exist.” – …

Goal setting and experiments vs. Resolutions

“Dad, what are resolutions?” my daughter Alice asked in the car the other day. I was off last week with my daughter since she was out of school. We were running an errand when a friend called and I answered on speakerphone. He has some resolutions for his personal life and his business so we talked about those. I offered …

How we learn and how to achieve mastery

There is a lot of focus on learning and improving in the circles that I run in.  Many people want to learn something and move onto the next thing, leaving a lot of opportunity available for people who really want to focus and learn something to the point of mastery.  If you want to be the best at something, it …

Why short-term thinking hurts you

I talk with a lot of people who get frustrated when things don’t happen immediately.  They are so focused on the short-term and don’t have any trust for the process.  You can try to force everyone to work on your schedule, but that will lead to burning a lot of bridges with potential clients and networking partners.  Instead we should …

Don’t Be Results Oriented

If I could buy a billboard and put one thing on it, it would be this: “Don’t Focus on Results” With so much in this world that we can’t control, why do we put so much emphasis just on the end product? What do I mean by being too focused on results? Here are the kinds of self-defeating, results-focused statements …