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5 Myths About Leadership Debunked
1. ”Leaders are born' is bullshit I don’t consider myself a “born-great” anything especially ‘a leader’. Nobody is looking at a 2-year-old for management advice because they’re “born with it.” Are you kidding me? LIFE teaches you patience, resilience, and...
ADHD: A Weakness or a Strength?
ADHD is my greatest strength, hands down. I bounce off the walls until I find something important to focus on. The kid who “can’t sit still,” the guy who seems distant in conversation, the entrepreneur obsessed with one idea—I’m all of these things, but I never see...
3 Hard Lessons I Learned About Hard Work
High school basketball coach Tim Notke said it best, “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” My story is a perfect example. I wasn’t a “natural talent” working in construction with my father, working on Wall Street, or even building Spartan. I...
Change Your Life Through Self-Learning
Take a second and think about your life, and all the energy you’re putting in to make it incredible: The marriage, the job, the house, the kids, the summer vacation plans. Are you comfortable with where your life is right now? If you are, I’d take that as a warning...
Time is money. Stop wasting it.
You’re on your fourth cup of coffee, head pounding from client emails, staring at your computer screen with tired eyes in the third meeting of the afternoon. Just another day at the office, right? I talk about ripping people off the couch, but I’m equally invested in...
Why it pays to have an audience
We’ve all been there. You’re outside going for a quick 3 mile run and suddenly someone passes you and you start using their pace as yours. You keep following them, and the next thing you know, you’ve gone 10 miles further and still have to turn around to get back...
