The last time you stood in line at the grocery store checkout, did you struggle to avoid reading the headlines of the various trashy magazines racked in front of you?  If you haven’t noticed how difficult it is, give it a try the next time you’re in the store. It’s the same with billboards on … Continue reading Feed Your Brain →

Don’t get discouraged when the world suddenly seems full of ugliness:  evil people, nasty things, and hateful actions. The news media lives on profit, and the best way to make that profit is to focus on awful, scary, outrageous things. Ignore them. The ugliness is a blade of grass bloated to the size of a mountain by people who gain from your … Continue reading Overwhelm the Ugliness →

If you’re like most people, just about every major accomplishment in your life was achieved in small steps over a long period of time. Sure, there may have been the occasional cataclysmic breakthrough, but for the most part big changes happen slowly and consistently over time. [Here’s where you might expect to see a tired reference to the Colorado … Continue reading Always in Motion →

If you’re a business owner or manager you have probably at one time or another wished for the ability to clone yourself.  “If I could just have 10 more of me,” you think, “this business would grow like crazy.” Once employees are trained (also an important task, but not very difficult) it’s critical to keep … Continue reading Investment Tip →

Do you remember Plastic Man? He was a comic book hero who dressed in red spandex (what else?) and white-framed sunglasses.  His super power was the ability to stretch into any shape imaginable, and he used it to foil evildoers and drive his super-powered friends batty. You my friend, are Plastic Woman (or Plastic Man, if … Continue reading Stretchy →

100 years from now, everyone that knows you will be dead.  Shortly after that everyone that knew of you through them will be dead. If you’re like the rest of us, posterity will know little to zero about you. So why do you care what people think?

Who are you? Do you embrace the mess, dive in, and see where it takes you? Or are you the exact opposite: setting goals, ticking off the steps along the way, and marching towards progress with a gleam in your eye? Dividing all people into two camps is a teensy bit of oversimplification (and heavens, lil’ ol’ … Continue reading Soaking the Other Side of Your Brain →