There is a lot of doing and not a whole lot of being.

Be.

Here.

Now.

Especially for the folks you care about.

“Huh. But what does that look like in my day-to-day life?”

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The worst time to choose your words..

.. is in the moment you are saying them.

(By ‘saying them,’ I also mean the times when you’re writing an email, text, FB message, etc.)

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You can play music, but you can’t make everyone dance.

Imagine you’re throwing a party. Maybe the party is for someone dear who just graduated, maybe you just closed a big deal, maybe you just bought a new home, or maybe it’s continue reading

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Why are some explanations more powerful than others?

“How many of you live paycheck to paycheck?”

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Do you have a bonus commute route?

We’re never quite where we actually are.

(Are you nodding right now?)

It’s sad that we’re never quite where we are, in large part because our mind loves having a continue reading

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1984.

Dracula.

There’s something gripping about famous one-word book titles.

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A story about the Mona Lisa of Chairs

Can a simple chair like the one shown in the first image of this story be built without tools?

Even if you are a skilled carpenter, the answer is ‘no.’

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Hardest Sell: Convincing Folks To Know You When You Give Them No Story.

Facebook connects the world.

Twitter is the pulse of the internet.

Shopify ___________. Can you fill in the blank?

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Crisis is a great classroom.

It can make you bitter.

Or, it can make you better.

Case in point: AutoNation, aka the now-largest car dealership network in the US.

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You can get ‘hours’ from anyone. Or, you can lead like Jeff Bezos.

As a business leader, you know that you can get ‘hours’ from anyone.

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