Keynote Speaker, Author & Reinvention Architect
It’s been just over 3 years since my last drink. I don’t know the exact day I stopped drinking, and I don’t celebrate or mark the occasion. This is strange to me because I wasn’t a casual drinker who decided to stop. But every so often, I catch myself thinking that I’m “X” amount of…
I turned 51 yesterday. Birthdays are an excellent opportunity to reflect, and I looked into a collection of lines I’ve written that jump out to me. They’re epiphanies, things I’m coming to understand, things I want to explore deeper, messages directed at myself, and questions I’d like to answer. I have a ton of them…
Is your life like that moment when you pull into your driveway and don’t remember driving home? Do you ever feel like you’re on a hamster wheel? You’re running so fast and getting absolutely nowhere. Busy. Busy. Busy. And very little to show for it. It’s exhausting; it’s frustrating and, quite frankly, maddening. Days fly…
“I want to be happy.” Ask someone what they want, and that’s the answer ninety-nine times out of one hundred. It was one of my answers, along with freedom. It’s a solid-sounding response that’s hard to argue with; who doesn’t want to be happy? Only one problem, it’s not a solid answer; it’s vague and…
It’s early in the morning; the sun hasn’t yet risen. The last pinks of the sunrise give way to a clear blue sky of a glorious fall day. A few cirrus clouds slowly transform and evolve, adding dimensionality to an already beautiful skyscape. I understand why Monet preferred to paint by the morning and evening…
You do the same thing every day, every week, and every month. And you get the same results every day, every week, and every month. You have a routine. It’s safe, certain, like a cozy blanket wrapped around you, and it’s working for you. But is it? Is your routine driving you to the life…