Lean Into Discomfort
As an entrepreneur, every day is different and hard to predict. All my days are incredible—some incredibly awesome, some incredibly frustrating. Sometimes I get to enjoy the fruits of my labor, sometimes I carry a lot of weight on my shoulders. Dealing with all this uncertainty and responsibility can be very uncomfortable. So how does […]
Placebo Effect
We can manifest our future with our thoughts. We’re all familiar with the placebo effect: the positive result that’s incorrectly attributed to a treatment or action. We hear about this most often as it relates to medical research, with some patients mistakenly thinking their symptom improvement is due to the “medication” they received in the […]
Mental Block
I few years back, I lived in a rural town close to the DE/PA border. The nearest grocery store was five minutes away, but further south from where I lived. Instead of going to that store, I would drive to another town 20 minutes away to buy food. The stores were identical and I had […]
Simplify & Purge
Recently I was at a retreat with a group discussing our challenges within our business, personal, and family lives. This group is one of my sounding boards and we get together once a quarter. One item we discussed was simplification. Seems like an easy enough topic. Let me assure you, it’s not. Many of today’s […]
Passion
It’s summer. Most folks in the Philadelphia area head to the beach on weekends. I do as well on occasion. A couple of weeks ago, I happened to walk into the Iron Room, a place that touts one of the largest collections of whiskeys in the East Coast. I was skeptical, after all I was […]
Our Most Precious Commodity
You can’t buy more time no matter how much money you have. Whether you are Warren Buffet or the janitor at his company, you both have the same amount of time in a day—24 hours, 1440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. How you choose to spend it is up to you. I believe companies like Uber are […]