Document Vs. Create

Aug 31, 2016 | Goal Check-In

It’s much smarter to talk to the world about the process you’re going through than to share the advice that you think the world needs. Talk about the journey of the climb. Document over create. ~Gary Vanderchuk I’ve been struggling with how to...
Turning Disasters into Dreams

Turning Disasters into Dreams

Sep 28, 2015 | House Goal

When life hands you a disaster turn it into a plan to achieve big goals I mentioned in my last article that I’m dealing with water damage at my house and that life is sort of turned upside down at the moment. Yes there’s stress. Yes there’s a sense of being...
Steady in the face of chaos

Steady in the face of chaos

Sep 19, 2015 | General

  Sometime during the last week or so of August my hot water heater decided it was time to die a slow, miserable death. Rather than just die all at once, it wanted to go slowly so it kept heating water and giving me hot showers and stuff. But behind closed doors,...
Arriving at one goal starts another

Arriving at one goal starts another

Sep 16, 2015 | Quotes

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. ~John Dewey I love the idea that goals are like dominoes. Achieving one of your goals is just the beginning of a massive chain reaction to achieving lots more goals. As each domino falls it becomes part of the...
Scheduling free time for yourself

Scheduling free time for yourself

Sep 12, 2015 | Dreams With a Deadline

Imagine a printed page that is filled with text. No really, pull that image into your mind. I’ll wait. Go ahead. What did it look like? Was the text completely filling the entire page from top to bottom and side to side? Or was there a border of white space around a...
Becoming great by achieving goals

Becoming great by achieving goals

Sep 9, 2015 | Quotes

    What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Henry David Thoreau So often we get so caught up on the prize at the finish line – achieving the goal – that we loose site of the journey...
Achieving goals won’t make you happy

Achieving goals won’t make you happy

Sep 5, 2015 | Dreams With a Deadline

Let’s start with a quiz today. It’s short, just three questions.   How often do you put the happiness of others before your own?  And I’m not just talking about family and friends right now – I’m talking about all the “others” in your life. Like a boss,...
The only way to find yourself

The only way to find yourself

Sep 2, 2015 | Uncategorized

Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost. ~Kellie Elmore When stumble across quotes that I want to share with you, I often don’t know anything about the quote or author who said it. But because I like to dig in and find out what I...
Turning your daydreams into BIG dreams

Turning your daydreams into BIG dreams

Aug 30, 2015 | Dreams With a Deadline

Are you undecided about what your BIG dream should be? Too overwhelmed with the possibilities. If you could achieve anything – anything at all – what would it be?  It’s like that quote: “If you knew you could not fail, what would you attempt?”  Big decisions like this...
Overcoming self-doubt

Overcoming self-doubt

Aug 22, 2015 | Dreams With a Deadline

The last time I wrote I was in thinking mode. And boy have I been thinking. My brain hurts! I’m sorry it took me so long to deal with my own head, but I want to share with you what I’ve learned in the past several weeks. I’ve been struggling with self-doubt and...