Every tale starts with an origin story. This is mine. But first, a question (and a few follow-ups): If your life was a movie, would you pay to watch it? What role would you play: Hero, villain, supporting character, or extra? Who wrote the screenplay? Who directed it? Was it you? I have always been……
Category: Play the Long Game
Author
I wrote a book. Hold the applause. It’s an interesting thing, to write a book. It started out normal enough. I had every intention to write a book, the book, before I started. And whenever I would write said book, the words came out alright but they came in the form of another voice, one……
Nourish
It’s that time of year again. Time to toast the end of a year and the beginning of a new day. Our family’s word for the coming year is simple: Nourish. Quick Fixes and Long Heals Too often our family races to its next meal. We are busy doing other things and suddenly realize we……
Thankful
Thoughts are things. Tangible. As in, you can touch ’em. Because they are real. What are you thinking about? Sometimes, I’m in the future. In my head. 10, 20 months. 10, 20 years. My son and wife are there to snap me out of it, to bring me back here. To right now. But I……
Plentiful
I had an epiphany the other day. That the reason I transitioned away from the practice of law was that it centered, at least in my experience, on having a scarcity mindset. Indeed, much of the system (at least in civil courts) is to make you whole, to restore you, to make you as much……
Champion Leader
What’s your quest? What’s the end game of your long game? What do you want to have done after you are all done? I want you to be a champion leader. Al, Stop Making Up Phrases First of all, don’t call me Al. And second, a “champion leader” is a thing. It is! Well, it……
The Five Stages of Competence
Have you heard of the four stages of competence? It’s a learning model that describes the process of skill progression from ignorance to eventual mastery. It’s a great way to figure out how we learn anything. Everyone starts at the beginning. Where you don’t know what you don’t know. As you recognize your incompetence, you consciously……
Play the Long Game
We overestimate what we can accomplish in one day. And we underestimate what we can accomplish in one year. Have you heard that? What do you think you could accomplish in a century? Ladies & Gentlemen Remember that song, Wear Sunscreen? It was a commencement speech set to music offering the Class of 1999 advice on life.……
Engager
Too many people choose their work by what they are able to do. I’m good at this, so I’ll do it. I propose there’s a better way. The better choice is to do what you are made to do. What are you made to do? Take affirmative steps towards what that is. No matter how……