GROWTH VS. FIXED Phase 1 was waking up. Now we go in, deeper. Welcome to Phase 2. Why one person stays stuck behind “I can’t,” and another breaks out. It comes down to two words. When I was five, my biological mom left and I went to live with my dad. I showed up at […]
Death and Life are in the Power of the Tongue The Language You Use. It’s not just your words. It’s the energy you bring. Positive or negative. Up or down. Years ago, working for the hospital, we had a board member, a tough-as-nails, wise woman from a Midwest ranching family. She listened to me […]
Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz. What he found there is the clearest reason I know for why some people rise and some don’t. A few years ago I stood on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro with a group of 8 burn survivors. Two of them, Isla and Isabella, 11 and 12 years […]
The Strangest Secret The Strangest Secret. We become what we think about. Earl Nightingale figured it out in 1956. Most people still haven’t. EARL NIGHTINGALE · THE STRANGEST SECRET · 1956 “We become what we think about.” Six words. Recorded in a rented studio in Chicago. First spoken-word recording to sell a million copies. […]
Bjerk Builders is delivering this ground up industrial building, with a 24 foot interior clearance on 1.2 acres. Some of the best moments have been seeing leadership roles with the company over 20 years providing the next generation with insight into how fast the world is changing in our industry. When we got together to […]
Life is Difficult. M. SCOTT PECK · A ROAD LESS TRAVELED · 1978 “Life is difficult.” The entire first paragraph. That’s it. Three words. Over 10 million copies sold. Still in print 45 years later. Because those three words changed something in people that nothing else could touch. I was still putting Humpty Dumpty back […]
As a Man Thinketh – James Allen NOTORIOUS B.I.G. · JUICY · 1994 “It was all a dream.” Biggie grew up broke in Brooklyn. He held a vision so clearly, so consistently, that his brain started building toward it. James Allen wrote the same truth 91 years earlier. Dr. Andrew Huberman can now show you […]
Good People, Warrior Spirit Good People. On the warrior spirit, the servant’s heart, and what it means to be an American worth the freedom someone else paid for. Good People – today, Memorial Day, I find myself thinking about the men and women who took that definition further than most of us will ever have […]
Hearts and Minds of Champions THE TRIPLE What you are capable of, when you stop carrying what was never yours to carry. Alumni game. Freshman year of college. I stepped into the batter’s box and hit a bomb over the center fielder’s head. Standing on third base, dusting off my jersey, my high school baseball […]
Nate Lowrie, CEO of Bjerk Builders sat down with Darius Guinn, General Manager of Shoot 360 in Queen Creek, Arizona. While Bjerk Builders completed the full tenant improvement of this unique, NBA grade space, Darius lets us in on how these training facilities transform the communities they serve and how his personal path led him […]
