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My System for Emotional Self-Management

I spoke with an entrepreneur recently who described founding her startup as the loneliest of jobs. Elon Musk,...

Habits for Combatting Resistance

As I discussed in last week’s article, “Resistance” was coined by Steven Pressfield to describe the inertia that...

How to Create an Ideal Environment for Learning

In the fall of 2003 I broke my neck on a trampoline. (That sounds dramatic, I know, but...

Everything Is Sales & You’re Doing It Wrong

Everything in life is sales. From inviting your child to do her homework, to deciding where to go...

How to Reframe Failure

There are a lot of things about being an entrepreneur that I avoid, but one of the silliest...

What Should You Study Next?

When I am asked today about my movement practice, typically while I’m doing handstands in the park, I...

The Unexpected Benefits of Celebration

Special Announcement! My book Responsive: What It Takes To Create a Thriving Organization is free today on Amazon!...

How to Build a Creative Habit

The Artist’s Job My mother is a professional artist. She has been making art, ​paintings​ and ​mezzotints​, for...

Everything is Storytelling

I’ve told the story of Robin’s Cafe – how I started it in 3 weeks and eventually sold...

How to Extinguish Unwanted Behaviors – or Why Dog Training is Like Riding a Bike

I originally heard this quote applied to dog training in reference to using high quality treats. In a...

How to Get Someone You Love To Change (Spoiler: You Can’t)

I have some tough news: you can’t change people. People have to want change in order to make...

How to Identify Resistance

We all have habits and behaviors that we acknowledge are important to do – and which we will...