February 24, 2015

5 habits to think more intentionally about your future

Where do you want to go with your life? And what’s keeping you from getting there? These are the Thomas Merton questions that we seldom ask of another. Or ourselves. For good reason. It’s hard work. It requires slow thinking. ...

August 7, 2014

Are you frozen in place by linear thinking? [podcast]

What’s the next step you need to take for your dream? How you answer that may signal if you’re thinking linearly or non-linearly. In our latest episode of the Reinventure Me podcast, my co-host Armin Assadi and I talk about linear ...

August 6, 2014

Head-first or feet-first into your next venture?

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet. - Benjamin Franklin

When it comes to pursuing a new venture, you can make one of two errors (I’ve made both). You may either throw caution to the wind and dive in with both feet, blindly trusting everything will work out; or, you can sit on the ...

July 14, 2014

Another reason to journal longhand

Ever since I gave journaling another try, I’ve done it longhand—writing three pages, non-stop, the old fashioned way with pen and ink. Despite the many excellent programs on the market to keep a journal, such as Day One or ...

June 23, 2014

How to cultivate a bias for action

I’m a huge proponent of smart action. As the intelligence researcher Robert Sternberg put it, “The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.” Our ...

February 6, 2014

Mindset podcast on good thinking

Think about this. We spend a great deal of our lives thinking. Thinking far too much about ourselves—How do I fit in? What value do I bring? What do they think of me? And thinking far too poorly—we either ...

September 11, 2013

Review: “Accidental Genius” by Mark Levy

I thought about this book often. Even before I read it. Two years ago I started journaling and it remains a daily discipline for me. It’s my time to mull over my thoughts and explore ideas. Some are dumb ...

August 26, 2013

The dark side of journaling

The power of journaling is in the discovery. But what if you don’t like what you find? Like Luke Skywalker entering the Dark Side Cave, you may find yourself facing a Darth Vader version of yourself. Honest reflection through ...

July 31, 2013

3 truths when panic threatens

Every worthy pursuit hits a snag. Most are minor annoyances and you get through them pretty quickly. Others are more entangling, tearing at your sense of vitality. Prolonged indebtedness. Unresponsive markets for your products and services. Chronic health challenges. ...

July 24, 2013

How to think slowly

Do you intentionally think slowly? Take your time and think about it. We tend to judge the rightness of something by how quickly we can think about it. Decisiveness, in our “just do it” culture, is more valued than ...

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