
How to Not Get Caught Flat Footed
Life is constantly full of new seasons. If you haven’t felt the seasons changing for you, you’re probably not really living life - and that’s another blog for another day. New seasons in life can look like basically anything, from getting married or having a baby, to getting a job or moving to a new city, to buying a house or helping out aging parents. Most recently, we’ve all dealt with the completely unknown life season of quarantine, and we’re just stepping into the life s

3 Steps to Opening Up Opportunities in Your Life
The YouTube algorithm strikes again! I recently came across the story of a guy named Danny. Danny posted a video about how he ended up working for Nike. Danny was a film guy (hey there, algorithm), and there were 2 companies he wanted to do commercials for: Nike and Jeep. So here’s what Danny decided to do: he took his Jeep, he took his girlfriend, and he started filming. It was super low budget, but basically he decided to make his own mini commercial for Jeep. He put it on


Two 4-Letter Words that Make or Break Your Success
I was going down a YouTube rabbit hole the other day, and I came across this freestyle rapper named Harry Mack. And I gotta tell you...he is UNBELIEVABLY good. Most of his videos are him meeting random people and having them give him a few words, and then he just rolls. He’s RIDICULOUSLY good. So I wanted to know how he got there. When I was a kid, I used to get enamored with anyone that was really good at anything. But I think I’m past that point now. Now, any time I see som

4 Little Words to Take Control of Your Life
So, you probably don’t have as much control of your life as you think you do. You may agree with me on that, you may not. That doesn’t matter. You may get message after message on personal responsibility that reminds you that you are in control of your life… But are you? Actually? Under the surface, if you actually want to know who or what controls your life, you need to know who or what controls your DECISIONS. Because life is nothing more than the culmination of the decisio


Need To Level Up? Seek A New Perspective
Ask anyone who has accomplished anything notable, and you will soon learn that on the journey to success, things rarely go according to plan. In fact, sometimes they go horribly wrong, take years (yes, years) longer than expected, and force you to change in ways that you didn’t know you even could. The road to success is not a straight line, but one that twists and curves and looks like it falls off a dangerous cliff at times. If you are chasing your dream, you should know th


Your Thought Life: The Root Of The Fruit
I love to talk about the power of habits. It’s a small thing to some people, but those who left the corporate rat race to launch and successfully run their own business, retired early, have a happy marriage, and live in a healthy body with a healthy mind, know that habits are HUGE. If you read articles like this, it’s because you CARE about growing and you care about succeeding. If you came to me and said you were starting today on a huge goal and today was day 1, I’d tell yo


The Habit You MUST Develop To Hit The Goal You’re Chasing
No one wants to live a pitiful, uninspired, second-rate life. And yet, so many people struggle financially, struggle in relationships, struggle in their career, struggle in personal fulfillment. Have you ever stopped to think on that? Just how many millions of people are unhappy, yet have everything at their disposal to change their destiny? Yes, I said it. No matter your circumstance, upbringing, financial means, or skin color - you CAN change your destiny. A quick google se

Create Your Montage
It’s Blog Time. Look at your watch, it’s true. I’ve got 2 things to tell you. They’re both good. One is about something you’ve SEEN, the other about something you’ve HEARD. We’ll start with something you’ve SEEN. As a society, we tend to glorify “the Big Break”, don’t we? In any great film, you’ll see the hero have a defining moment. Some climactic, emotional event that happens that shifts the character’s thinking, and it’s then followed by…a montage. As a film director whose


One Degree Off
What do you mean it’s the week of Thanksgiving? I mean, I know what you mean, it’s physically the week that contains the holiday. But wasn’t it just Labor Day? Wasn’t it just Columbus Day? Wasn’t it just Arbor day?! Dear readers. It feels like Arbor day was just literally yesterday. I hope this week is full of reflection on all the things there are to be grateful for. I know my life is chock-full of them, especially my wife and our little guy. But this week, I’ve got an impor


Reaction vs Response
Why you’re too much of an emotional basketcase to get anything done.... Imagine coming back to your home after a night of festivities with friends. You fumble around for your keys in your pocket, pull them out and bring them to the keyhole only to find that your door is slightly ajar. You slowly push it open, revealing a scene of chaos in front of you: bookshelves overturned, papers everywhere, your media console empty...It takes less than 3 seconds for you to register what