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09/21/2026

40 years scared of public speaking. Strange from a guy who's built massive communities and spoken to thousands of people.

Strange. But true. It's paralyzed me. Left me in front of people, full of shame, unable to say the thing I came to say.

30 years ago my first coach told me the fix: take an improv class. I said no for three decades.

Last month I signed up. Now I'm three classes in. I've had some terrible moments - reminiscent of times from the past. One night I stood up, opened my mouth, and went completely blank.

But something's different this time, and it's not that I'm getting good, because I'm really not. It's that for 40 years this fear got to decide things for me. Where I'd go, what I'd say yes to, what I'd quietly avoid. And I'm just not willing to let it keep doing that anymore. So I'm doing the thing badly instead of not doing it at all. That feels like the change.

What about you? What's the thing you've been avoiding?

What's something you could do, a small step, to head toward it?

09/13/2026

You snapped at someone who didn't deserve it. Then you sat there wondering where the hell that came from.

It didn't come out of nowhere. You've been storing it up for weeks... you just didn't notice.

A little frustration here. Something someone said that you let slide there. You told yourself it was fine. It kept piling up anyway.

Think of a pot of pasta with the lid on. Low heat, totally under control. Until you turn your back for one second and it boils over all over the stove.

That's you. And when it finally goes, it goes sideways, onto someone who had nothing to do with what's actually cooking.

The fix is almost stupid. Crack the lid. Let a little out on purpose before it builds. Next time something gets to you, grab a pen and write the whole thing out, everything you'd never say out loud, then burn it. Ten minutes, the day it happens.

Do it a couple times a week and watch what happens to your mornings.

Save this for the next time you feel the lid rattling. When's the last time you boiled over on someone who didn't deserve it?

09/06/2026

My body knew he was leaving before I did.

The whole day before I dropped my son off at college, I was tired. Irritable. All I wanted was to lie down, and I had no idea why.

Then we hugged goodbye, and the floodgates opened.

Last year I made a video about this same moment. I said the depth of my sadness was proof of the depth of my love, and don't numb it, stay with it. A couple weeks ago I got to find out if I meant it.

This year I let it come.

Part of me knows he lives in my heart and always will. And the human part of me doesn't care about any of that. It just misses him. The kid coming through the door. The body in the passenger seat, singing on the way to school.

That missing is what brings the tears. And I've stopped treating it like a problem to fix.

This year I found something I didn't have last year. The tears aren't just emotion. They're the body finishing something. The breath, the diaphragm, the whole thing moving up and out. Let it happen and let your life keep going, and it moves through and it's done. Hold it in, and it just stays and stays and stays.

So I let it happen. I didn't fix it. I didn't talk myself out of it. I let my body do what it came to do.

The next morning I woke up okay. Just okay. The sadness was still in me. It still is. But there's a real joy on the other side of it now, and it's not running the room anymore.

If you're in one of these right now, whatever yours is, I want to hear it. How are you handling your goodbyes?

08/25/2026

client asked me what I thought of their progress today. I told them it's irrelevant.

That surprised them. But I meant it. The second my opinion becomes the scoreboard, something shifts. They start working to please me, or to master my material, instead of checking in with themselves about how they're actually doing.

We're trained for this early. From the time we can barely walk, we're taught to hand our sense of how we're doing to someone else. A grade. Later a degree. Somebody out there tells us where we stand, and we believe them.

I've spent years taking that back in myself. And a lot of what I do now is help people build a place inside where their own read on their life is the one that counts.

So here's your question for today: are you headed where YOU actually want to head? And what would it take to create more of what you want?

07/09/2026

I was about to record a completely different video when a text came in from someone I hadn't talked to in over a year. He wanted me to know the profound difference I'd made in his life. Out of nowhere.

It landed like an arrow straight to my heart. The loving kind. Tears actually came.

Here's what hit me. We move so fast that we forget we're already making a difference just by being who we are. You don't have to do something big to matter. You already do.

So slow down today. Take a breath before you spiral into everything you haven't done yet. And if someone in your life has made a difference for you, tell them. A simple text will do it.

Deliver that miracle. Then watch what happens.

06/24/2026

There's a scene near the end of the last episode of season 2 of Landman () that came through to me like a 911 message from my soul.

Tommy, Billy Bob Thornton's character, tells his wife, Angela, that hard times are coming. Then he says, but not today. Today we win.

And her reply is what got me:

She say, slowly... Baby, I win every day. So do you. You just don't see it. You've got to slow down enough to notice.

That's been alive in me every day since.

It was like someone took ahold of my shoulders and shook me to wake me up... so that I'd remember!

Because the story most of us run is that we're losing. Keep your head down, work harder, get more, and then maybe you'll win.

But the truth is, winning is all around you.

You woke up this morning. Let's just start with that. You're breathing. You've got people you love and who love you, you're making it work, whatever that means for you. There's so much winning happening in your life that you're moving too fast to see.

You've already won. That doesn't mean things stop being hard. The pain's still real, the lessons still come. And underneath all of it, the win is already there.

So try this tomorrow. Before anything else, tell yourself:

Today I Win.

Say it over and over... like an incantation. It's part of my morning now.

Save this and try it. Then tell me how it lands.

06/19/2026

We dread feeling dread.

A hard feeling shows up. Fear, anger, that low hum of anxiety with no clear cause. And most of us have one move: find the problem, fix it, get it out of me. This doesn't belong here. It's not fair that I feel this way.

Here's what I'm starting to see. You can't fix a feeling the way you fix a problem.

A friend gave me a picture for it last week that I can't shake. Trying to feel only the good emotions is like standing in your backyard at night, looking up, and yelling at the stars to move a little to the left. You can yell all night. They're not moving. You just get tired.

That's what a lot of us are doing with what we feel. Fighting a fight that was never winnable, then reading the exhaustion as proof we need to try harder.

So I'm trying something else. Letting the joy be there. And the love. And also the anger and the fear. All of it allowed in the room, without me rushing to throw any of it out.

I don't have this figured out. I'm trying it on. Try it on too, and tell me what happens.

06/16/2026

Ever come back from vacation and think, how am I going to do this life again?

I got back from seven days away and that's exactly where I am today.

Here's the thing... my life is good... GREAT, actually. And still, I've got both the "I don't want it" and the "I want it" running at the same time, and I can't get those two to agree.

What I noticed today is that I'm uncomfortable being uncomfortable. So the machine inside me kicks on, trying to fix the thing it decided is broken, trying to move me somewhere other than here.

But what if I could be okay not knowing? What if the uncertainty is just another experience of being alive, and I could let it sit there the way I let joy sit when it shows up.

When I'm truly in a joyful moment, I couldn't talk myself out of it even if I tried. Why? Because it's simply just a state I'm in.

What if uncertainty, or uncomfortableness is the same? Just a state I'm in.

Well, I'm in it today... and wanted to share it, live, while it's the freshest.

How about you? What does coming back to real life after a vacation actually feel like for you?

06/15/2026

I built a free assessment for entrepreneurs who look fine and aren't sure they actually are.

22 questions. About 5 minutes. You answer them on your phone.

At the end you get a personalized read on two things: where you're actually thriving, and where the strain is hiding. Across the five areas of your life most likely to be quietly eroding while the business keeps working.

The interpretation is generated fresh for your specific answers, not a canned result off a flowchart.

It took me 10 years to see this in my own business. The tool shows it to you in 5 minutes.

Link in bio.

06/10/2026

Most entrepreneurs aren't focused on what their performance is costing them.

They're doubling, tripling, quadrupling down. They've been willing to sacrifice any cost for years, for decades, because the payoff always seems worth it in the moment.

The cost shows up later. In the looking back. The "I wish I had focused on my relationship with my kids" moment. The "I wish I had paid more attention to my health" moment. The "what was I doing all those years" moment.

You don't have to wait until you're looking back to see it.

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