“The saddest part about getting older is seeing how intellectually dead some of my friends have chose to become.” My dad shared the words above with me at the beginning of 2018 when talking about the realities of getting older. Needless to say, they hit me like a ton of bricks, and I made a decision right then […]
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. Simplicity is the key to brilliance” — Bruce Lee A few weeks ago, on my birthday, my wife and I sat together on our terrace watching a video she had put together from all of my friends and family wishing me a happy birthday. We had just […]
“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.” — Warren […]
I was walking the rainy streets of Barcelona with a girl I had just met. It was a Wednesday, and little did I know, I was 45 seconds away from seeing my future. As we crossed the street, the clouds parted, and the first ray of sunshine kissed the face of this comfortable stranger. When […]
The best way to write your own story is to ask others about theirs Three years ago, on the last leg of the “Camino de Santiago,” a 900km trek across northern Spain, my dad came across a Norwegian woman and a Dutch man, both of whom were in their late 80’s. Curious as to what had […]
I was once told as human beings we spend the first half of our lives collecting, and the second half determining what to keep. Having just celebrated my 40th birthday, I figured there would never be a better time to get the lessons I have decided to keep down on paper. 1.What gets communicated the […]
Listening plus action equals connection The first time I met my brother-in-law was at a ceremony celebrating his completion of a 3 year Buddhist retreat, during which time he and 20 other guys lived together in confines no larger than a basketball court. For most of the day I hung back in the shadows and […]
A few weeks ago my dad and I were holed up in a Central American hotel, waiting to testify in regards to a decade long court case that I have been involved in (a story for another day). As if the thought of taking another bullet-proof vehicle to a courthouse wasn’t weighing on me enough, […]
When I think about how I recently won the fight for finding work I love, I cannot identify one moment in particular. However, I can pinpoint key moments, when someone who cared about me, said something that either helped me to continue on the right path, or helped me to get back on it. Below […]
Last Tuesday my dad grabbed my shoulder in the lobby of a Central American hotel, and said the four words every momma’s boy fears the most, “Your mother is sick.” Yesterday we received the news that my mother’s lung cancer is in phase one and should be easily treatable. My mom is going to be […]
