Everybody Hurts, Including Me, And It’s OK To Ask For Help
This is a story I’ve never shared publicly until recently. It’s a secret about my life few people know. But now, because it matters, because it could help others, it’s time to share. It’s taken me 5 years to share this story. So this is for you, for your story, for your best. I hope
It’s Time To Start Talking Openly About Mental Health
At WordCamp Denver last weekend, I shared the most personal, intimate, transparent, open and, perhaps, impactful talk I’ve ever given. The topic? Mental Health and Entrepreneurship. In Denver, I shared the stories and lessons I’ve learned in the last 7+ years of how to cope doing one of the toughest, often loneliest jobs ever —
Jealousy Is An Obstacle To Your Purpose and Prosperity
I just wrote a 2,100 word post about jealousy and how I was once consumed with it, how I battle it almost daily and what I do about it. Just reflecting on the freedom I’ve experienced to focus on my story and my journey and make progress by redirecting the energy makes me smile. Read
All Epic Stories Must Marinate in Conflict
This may end up on my office wall … “War is just a metaphor for every problem you’ve ever had in your life. Without problems, you’ve got no plot, and without a plot, your character can’t develop. So don’t just choose your battles. Embrace them.” —Jessica Hagy #BOOM Source
The Most Humbling, Encouraging Book I’ve Ever Read On Changing the World
Over the weekend, I was consumed by the most amazing, most humbling, life-resetting, change your outlook on the world so that you can be a part of changing the world books I’ve read. Ever. It’s called Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think. After recommending it this morning someone asked me: What was your biggest
What Is Value and How to Value Value
For our customer focus this year — WProsper, helping our community make money with WordPress and our products — I did an extensive post on What is Value. I realized working through it for myself that: Value Is The Expectation Of A Result At the end of the post, I give a set of questions as
Peter Drucker’s Brilliant Five Most Important Questions
Stumbled onto Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions for organizations this week and it was exactly what I needed and so impactful for me and our business. The five questions are: What is our Mission? Who is our Customer? What does the Customer Value? What are our Results? What is our Plan? The Self Assessment Tool
How To Embrace Prosperity The Right Way
This year our iThemes customer focus is WProsper, specifically we’re going to focus on helping our customers make money with WordPress and iThemes. I just wrote a post titled Why You Should Embrace Prosperity (and Not Feel Bad About It). I admit to being hung up on the word for many years, but when you
Need a Quick Kick in the Pants to Release Your Work?
In 2006, I clicked publish on a blog and it forever changed my life. Since then I’ve kept clicking publish, taking chances, and putting my work, opinions, ideas out there for the world to see (and hopefully be changed for the better). I commissioned this illustration by my friend James Dalman to highlight my talks
The Obstacle Is The Way Is More Than a Book
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday is quickly becoming one of my favorite all-time recommended books … and a mantra for how I attack life. I love the book or rather the philosophy so much that I also bought the audiobook to play while I’m driving