Why Don’t You Just Pull Over: 3 Ways to Slay It – #1 from Michael Phelps. Responsibility is a superpower. Until it becomes the dragon driving the bus off a cliff. Here is something I have learned over the years. Adults who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes often end up over-responsible. Not lazy, […]
Who’s In Your Room Money, and the Room You Build In. On money, and the one thing Napoleon Hill found behind almost every great fortune – and it was not brains. A hundred years ago, Napoleon Hill spent decades studying five hundred of the most successful people alive: steel titans, inventors, presidents. He went looking […]
On the Phoenix cop who woke from a coma swinging, and the courage it took to face what was hiding under the anger. Years ago, working for our county hospital, I spent real time at the Arizona Burn Center. That is where I met Jason Schechterle, one of the bravest men I have ever known. […]
The Four P’s On perfectionism, paralysis, and the six months it took me not to make one phone call. Have you ever found yourself stuck? I know I have. For instance, I have not called my kids’ godparents in months. Not because I do not love them. Because I could not make the call perfect […]
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 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 for a while. Then she said, “Nate, you’re […]
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 We become what we think about. Earl Nightingale figured it out in 1956. Most people still haven’t. “We become what we think about.” Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret Six words. Recorded in a rented studio in Chicago. First spoken-word recording to sell a million copies. Earl called it “the strangest […]
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 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 together – pouring […]
