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No, I don’t feel older. But I do feel wiser. Here are some things I’ve learned in these 29 years. Hope you find one of them valuable. 1)...

West Virginia, 2022. For all of my 20s, I would list family as one of my top priorities. But there was a problem. It wasn’t. From 18-23,...

They are: 1) Labels are limits. We give ourselves disempowering labels and attributes all the time. Here are a few I heard from some of...

Lake Gaston, 2013. This photo is of me, my dad, and my grandpa. We’ve been told that each generation is brighter and more handsome than...

A month ago, I started logging how I spent my time each week. This was inspired by my good friends who run a design studio and do the...

Last winter, I experienced my first serious bout of burnout. For a week and a half, I felt zero positive emotion and ran away to a cabin...

Kings Dominion, fall 2012. My 10-year high school reunion is tonight. I’m thrilled. I can’t believe it’s already been a decade. I...

What I’ve been doing Two friends texted me today saying they missed the blog. One included a crying emoji. Sometimes I go weeks posting...

This morning, I leave for a two-week road trip. The longest vacation I’ll have since starting my own business. The end goal is my...

People say: “When you’re 10 years old, a year is 10% of your life. But when you’re 50 years old, a year is only 2%. That’s why time...

We were not suffering in this photo. My friend and I saw a play at the Kennedy Center last night. It was lovely. Things shutting down for...

For years, I said that family was one of the most important things to me. But that was a lie. How do I know? Because my actions tell the...

Is success a number or a feeling? Is it a dollar amount in our bank account…or not being stressed about bills? Is it how many followers,...

This Sunday was the first Sunday in a year where I intentionally scheduled nothing. Coming into the weekend, I realized that meant I...

“Take a picture of us taking a picture of us.” Readers of this blog know last week was an impactful one for me. An intense level of...

Last week, I joked about running away from everything and spending time off the grid. This weekend, I did just that…sort of. I’m pretty...

Today, I’m borrowing my friends’ dog and staying in an Airbnb in the woods. I canceled all my calls and obligations. Here’s what I sent...

I’ve been in a chess slump for the past month. My rating climbed and climbed over 2021. But now I feel I’m stuck around 1650. It feels...

Every individual or business should run on a small set of core principles. I just updated mine: 1) Curiosity before solutions. 2) Make...

Maybe sad is the wrong word. Last week, one of my clients said the same thing happens every winter: From December to February, he just...