When success stops feeling like success, the business has usually grown past the identity that built it. Most of us built that identity as kids to survive, and it worked for years. The way forward is ...
Starting over after 20 years of success begins with seeing what that old success has come to mean to you. The fear of being a beginner in public usually traces back to a belief that you are only good ...
There’s a photo from Japan that still gets me every time I look at it.
We were in Ueno Park during cherry blossom season. Samantha was there. My son was there. My daughter was there. The trees were e...
The Game My Mother Didn’t Come To
A soccer game taught me how easy it is to confuse achievement with being loved, and how hard it can be to stop performing for people who aren’t watching.
There was ...
The $80,000 Bill That Made Me Grow Up
A hospital bill in college taught me that some people become responsible early because no one else takes responsibility for them.
I was in college when I found ...
We were two weeks into a family trip to Japan when my son handed me a moment I didn't know I needed.
We were walking through Ueno Park, cherry blossoms in full bloom, when he turned to me and said...
This isn't a post about a contract. It's about you, the founder who hit the number, signed the deal, or crossed the milestone, and felt nothing when it finally arrived. I know that room because I've...
There's a moment most high achievers never talk about. The moment success stops working.
Mine happened at 3 AM, standing at the bottom of a staircase, looking up at my wife.
My father had died a ...
My father died on March 23, 2013.
We were finding our way back to each other before it happened. He'd gotten sober. He'd moved two minutes away. We were laughing again.
One night he asked to stay ov...
This isn't a post about music. It's about you, the founder, the operator, the high achiever who built something real and can't figure out why it still feels crowded. I just happen to have learned it i...
The call came on a Tuesday afternoon. LA Galaxy needed a slow-motion replay operator for their games, and for anyone who has spent years freelancing in sports broadcasting, that call is close to a ...
Most people know Sara Blakely as the woman who invented Spanx. Fewer people understand what actually made that possible.
It wasn't a clever idea. It wasn't being in the right place at the right ti...
