Welcome back to Thank God It’s Monday! tl;dr Everything we do in life comes back to our power to persuade: getting ourselves to do what we say we’re going to do, encouraging a client for better results, convincing a partner that we’re right, making a sale, asking our bosses for a raise. Persuasion, persuasion, persuasion. So why are we more effective in some areas of persuasion than others? And how can we use the areas we are already getting results in to get better results in the areas we...
7 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome back to Thank God It’s Monday! tl;dr 81 days until 2027. If you want to go into the holiday season with a plan for feeling energized and confident instead of bloated and sluggish, I’ve created the 75 Simple Challenge starting Sunday, October 18th. This is for you if you want an easy 10 minutes per day to build that momentum and confidence going into the new year. Who: 75 Simple is for you if you are busy, already stressing about the holiday eating and drinking, and are barely hanging...
14 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome back to Thank God It’s Monday! tl;dr We all have hope for what we want our futures to look like. We secretly wish our future selves could do something our present selves can't. But to become that future version of ourselves who can do more, we have to build confidence and character in incremental steps, since change so rarely happens in one fell swoop. We’ve all heard the quote:"Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your...
21 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome back to Thank God It’s Monday! tl;dr “At some point, the greatest threat to your future success is your attachment to your past success.”Fall is here, the holiday countdown begins, and with it, everyone’s favorite annual excuse for letting their goals slip away into the new year.But now is the time to make a decision if you’re going to let it happen again this year. Will you get to new years and join the resolutioners in their short-lived fervor for change? Or will you make up your...
28 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome back to Thank God It’s Monday! tl;dr Milestones are aptly named because our progress is not evident in inches or feet but in miles. Day to day, we largely repeat the same routines: the same breakfast, the same workout, the same job, the same downtime, the same wind-down. Maybe we swap our coffee for tea, or we move on to the next book before bedtime. We may alternate between running and lifting weights. One night may be spent eating out instead of cooking at home. But largely our days...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome back to Thank God It’s Monday! tl;dr Few experiences have the power to yank us out of our hurried lives and help us focus on living as much as travel does. The stark contrast in environment helps us remove the lens through which we see the world, often clouded with a distorted sense of hurriedness to nowhere, and see the joy in life’s small pleasures. Learning how to switch out these frames at home would help us find the balance in our everyday lives that we often say goodbye to when...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Welcome back to Thank God It’s Monday! tl;dr The idea of working in a single career for 40+ years in hopes of enjoying retirement is dead. But retirement itself is only a fairly recent concept in the span of human history. The definition of work continues to evolve, and I believe that if you can look beyond the matrix (if you will), work doesn’t have to be the prison sentence people make it out to be. Where is there room in your life to find love in your labor?First and foremost, I’d like to...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome back to Thank God It’s Monday! tl;dr Somewhere between “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” and self-indulgence (masquerading as self-care culture) is a healthy balance of challenge and respite. If you feel like you’re still learning where to strike this balance for yourself, I invite you to come along and consider some self-guiding questions.What is your starting point?On a scale from working confidently toward a well-defined goal to floundering in the busyness of day-to-day life, where do you...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Welcome back to Thank God It’s Monday! tl;dr We lie to ourselves to avoid discomfort, protect our self-image, and deal with overwhelming situations. Self-deception helps us feel good, but if we want to increase our potential, rebuild our integrity, and break unhealthy patterns, we have to implement systems for accountability.“I didn’t eat that much today.”“I’m going to start again on Monday.”“I don’t spend that much time on my phone.”Do any of these sound familiar?The initial hurdle we face...
2 months ago • 4 min read
