by Walt Hampton | Apr 23, 2026 | Success
A lot of people assume, quietly and sometimes sadly, that it’s too late to reinvent themselves. Too late to start something new. Too late to change direction. Too late to build a different kind of life. I don’t believe that for a second. In my work, I’ve seen too many...
by Walt Hampton | Apr 16, 2026 | Success
When people lose a job, the advice comes fast. Update your résumé. Call your network. Polish your LinkedIn. Apply harder. Move faster. Stay positive. Some of that may be necessary. But much of it skips past the deeper truth. When you lose a job, you usually lose far...
by Walt Hampton | Feb 26, 2026 | Success
You could see it immediately. Alysa Liu stepped onto the ice at the 2026 Winter Olympics and she was smiling. Not performing a smile. Not projecting confidence. Smiling because she was about to have fun. The New York Times described her as a skater driven by love, not...
by Walt Hampton | Nov 20, 2025 | Success
I’d been putting off the task. As I do. But the nights had been pretty cold for the last few weeks; and now, snow was in the forecast. So it needed to be done. Now or never. Planting the daffodil bulbs. The light was low that day. The sky a steel grey. And a...
by Walt Hampton | Aug 29, 2025 | Success
The end is near. Maybe the beginning too. Summer is winding down. Labor Day weekend already. Kids are heading back to school. And most of us will fall back into our same old routines. For the kids, it’s new beginnings. Fresh notebooks. Blank pages. Clean slates. For...