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 […]
As a Man Thinketh – James Allen It was all a dream NOTORIOUS B.I.G. · JUICY · 1994 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. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done […]
