You gotta have faith…

Cause you gotta have faith...

What is that thing … the idea, the vision, the cause you believe in that you’re not acting on?   What might happen if you lived as if you were willing to die to make that thing real?   Might you find new hope, new promises, new life? Which is worth more – creating the idea, the […]

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Lead forward.

Produce.

I’ve heard that if sharks stop moving they die.  Everything that exists in our world demonstrates movement.  Rocks move.   Even if it’s just at the molecular level. The cool thing is that we get to choose how we move.  We get to choose where we move.   Rocks are not so lucky. The word […]

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Your baby is so, um, cute….

Does your baby look like this?

Everyone thinks their baby is beautiful.  Even that couple who has that kid you think looks like Ernie from Sesame Street.   A pregnant woman’s body spends 9 months busy making a baby.   We don’t know what that baby looks like until it’s born.   We learn how beautiful (or ugly) our baby is after we […]

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Grow in Confidence, Be in the know…

Grow in Confidence

The more often I produce my work to the world, the more confident I feel.   The more confident I feel, the easier it gets to take the risk.  I trust that all will be well.  The first time I wrote a blog post, it took 3 hours, revision after revision, proof after proof.  After […]

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Are you busy or are you productive?

Produce Daily

I remember the first time I had to send an email out to a 1000 person audience.  I wrote the email.  Then I proofed the email.  Then I tweaked the email.  Then I proofed it.  Then I proofed it again.  Finally, I hit ‘Send’.   Off it went. I spent 45 minutes making sure the email […]

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Want better? Do better!

Do better!

This afternoon my wife and I got home after a busy day away.  We’ve been busy for the last several days.   I noticed that our dogs were becoming more needy.  They wanted more attention.  When we got home this afternoon our dogs were out of their minds.  They were all over us.  They were panting […]

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Pick up the Ball: A Simple Way to Save Face

Save face

I was emailing with a colleague to set up a time to meet.   Then she dropped of the radar.   I wondered what happened … was it me?  Was there something I said?   After a couple of weeks I was about to follow up with her.  Then I received this email from her: […]

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1 Simple way to stop using excuses and start delivering

Deliver the Goods

Yes or No.  Black or White.  One or Zero.  I will do it.  I will not do it.  The job is done or it’s not done … complete or incomplete. I had a habit of using conditions and qualifiers in my speech (and I still fight this habit).   I can weave a winding sentence […]

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Ship, Partner

Start Shipping!

I was standing on top of a 40 foot cliff.  It was my turn to jump.  I hate heights.   My friends were calling for me to jump.  Too late to turn back now.  I launch into a head first dive.  My gut gets that feeling of having a wet towel twisted inside.  Then I […]

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A Ceiling or Foundation

Put the Pieces Together

I’m learning that I can use my past.  It can be the ceiling keeps me from elevating.  Or it can be the floor from which I launch to new heights.   I choose. I took a walk last week.  I was thinking of worth.  As in a person’s worth.  A whisper spoke to me.  It […]

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