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...
by Walt Hampton | Jul 18, 2025 | Success
You feel it. That restless ache. That quiet whisper: There has to be something more. You’ve outgrown your current role, your industry, your identity even…But then the fear creeps in. “I don’t know what I’d do instead.” That thought is enough to stop most people cold....
