On Fear and My Reaction to Fear
This is part of the 30 Days Click Publish Challenge. Wanna join in with me and others? Come join in the Post Status Slack. Over the last couple of years as I’ve dove into my deep deep work, one of the biggest and primary tasks has been to work on awareness of my emotions. I’ve…
On Creating Community in Business, On Teams
I’ve been reading Tribe by Sebastian Junger finally and it’s given me focus and space to reflect and review work I’ve done under the “community” banner in business, particularly at iThemes and now at Post Status. Looking back, I see it as a hallmark of my career, wherever I’ve been or gone. And something I…
On Proving Yourself
This is Day 2 of Click Publish Challenge. In the past year, I’ve done a LOT of reflecting on my life and career. A LOT. And I’ve never been one to linger too long on the past or past achievements. It’s always been, ok, that was done, now I’m on to the next big thing.…
Why Click Publish Is Magic
This is the first post in my next 30 Days of Click Publish challenge. If you wanna join in at Post Status, join the #click-publish channel and share yours there! It’s been two years or so since I’ve done my last 30 Days of Click Publish challenge. But I’m excited again to restart it because…
The B+ Student
In high school I graduated — barely — with honors. At the time you had to have a grade point average of over a B as I recall which was over 80. High school felt fairly easy to me. It seemed more pass-fail to me …. and as long as I passed and could graduate…
Down in El Paso
I went on a great wild pursuit for it A mad and blind chase of it And through it all Finally found It was sitting within me All along
Let them make their own mistakes
For things we know a lot about and people we care about, it’s so tough to watch them make mistakes. But we intrinsically know the way to learn is to stumble and trip and fall. To make mistakes. It’s even harder if we’ve been really hurt and still feel the pain by proxy.
My mission is simple
Love myself Love my people Make my contribution Have a fucking adventure doing it all
Sharing Experience
The next time you find yourself giving advice (esp. unsolicited), realize that you’re talking to yourself and start taking notes with no expectation the other should listen or heed your advice at al. …. at least until you do it yourself. Then you could come back to that person and say, “This is what I…