Category Archives: Venturing

Is your mastery a mystery?

Is your mastery a mystery?
“I don’t know what I’m good at.” I hear that comment a lot. I’ve often even thought it myself. There’s a lot of talk about mastery. It’s one of the three elements of intrinsic motivation that Daniel Pink describes ...

Dream Assassin #5: Complacency

Dream Assassin #5: Complacency
Your dream is at risk. Five killers are out to put an end to it—perhaps even before it gets out of the starting gate. These Dream Assassins are Fear, Envy, Shame, Pride, and today’s spotlight killer: Complacency. This is ...

Dream Assassin #4: Pride

Dream Assassin #4: Pride
A quintet of killers are after your dream. And they may be nearer than you think. The comic strip character Pogo once observed, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” These silent assassins are often found collaborating ...

Dream Assassin #3: Shame

Dream Assassin #3: Shame
Assassins are on the loose. Their target? Your dream. This is the third in a series of five Public Service Announcements issued as a warning to be alert to these interlopers. Leading the list of the Most Unwanted are ...

Dream Assassin #2: Envy

This is a second in a series of five Public Service Announcements issued to warn against Dream Assassins seeking to put an end to your God-inspired aspirations. The first of the Most Unwanted was Fear. Today’s PSA concerns it’s ...

Dream Assassin #1: Fear

As a service to my fellow brothers and sisters desiring to live out their calling to make this world a better place, I’m issuing a series of Public Service Announcements. There are dream assassins on the loose and today’s ...

Dreaming isn’t hard

Dreaming isn’t hard. Pursuing one is. A dream, at least a noble one, invariably involves something new. Realizing it requires redirection. These kinds of dreams, the ones that lift our spirits, seldom fall on our path. Instead, they provoke ...

Embrace the Race

The race is on. As of this writing, the seventh Vendee Globe is in it’s 62nd day. The Vendee Globe is the extreme Olympics of sailing. Twenty captains set out from France in specially designed 60-foot yachts to circumnavigate ...