My Very Favorite Week of the Year

My Very Favorite Week of the Year

This is my very favorite week of the year. Not because of a holiday or a milestone, but because the gym empties out. The machines are suddenly available. No one is queuing. No loud conversations echoing across the floor. The noise drops away. What remains are the...
Life Is What Happens

Life Is What Happens

By the end of January, something familiar happens. The calendar is no longer fresh. The adrenaline of a new year has worn off. Reality has shown up. Bills. Emails. Family needs. Client demands. Life, doing what life does. John Lennon said it simply: Life is what...
What Do You Really Want?

What Do You Really Want?

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 How are you today? I hope you’ve woken up rested, refreshed and satisfied as your holiday celebrations draw to a close. But if, instead, you’re feeling dazed and depleted and...
Lost In The Museum

Lost In The Museum

It’s one of the great museums in the world: the Uffizi in Florence, Italy. Filled with some of the most famous works on the planet by some of the most extraordinary artists to have ever lived, like Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, and...
Lost With No Clear Way

Lost With No Clear Way

In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood with no clear way out. So begins Dante’s Inferno. Lost in the woods. No clear way out. That was certainly true for me. And it’s true for many of the really powerful professionals with whom I...