At some point, certain things just stop making sense. 

This is true for the ‘touch base’ or ‘weekly connect’ meeting you show up to that at some point began to feel like going through the motions instead of having an identifiable purpose. 

This is true for the companies that are so overwhelmed...

You begin any time you endeavor to shrink the distance between where you are and where you’re aiming to be. 

More specifically, here are three things that happen after you choose to begin: 

First there is an initial struggle because what you are pursuing is unfamiliar and demands your undivided attention.
 Then there...

When does a writer become a writer? When does a marketer become a marketer? When does dancer become a dancer? 

Is it the first word you write? Is it the first content calendar or piece of ad copy you publish? Is it the first sequence of steps that you take? 

Becoming something...

Before digital publishing tools like Pagemaker, Quark Express, and Adobe InDesign, you had to undergo an apprenticeship as a typesetter to learn how to adjust line leading, kerning, and tracking by hand. 

Before out-of-the-box artificial intelligence frameworks, the cost to streamline your business or any number of critical problems was a...

The effort, endurance, and morale required to accomplish valuable work hinge on how clear the purpose of the journey is:

It’s why people can finish a marathon, because they know that after 26.2 miles of intense running they will have crossed an important threshold.

It’s why people can build great products, because...

Whether it’s about your career, a connection, or your life in the grand scheme, it is imperative to routinely ask yourself in as point-blank a manner possible what the goal is. 

What do you want? 

If you know what you want, then the question helps reaffirm and further imbue your goals into...

Hindsight offers a clarity that we rarely come into contact with when dealing with present challenges:

It allows us to piece together how certain events eventually led to growth and transformation.

It reminds us that the things we sweat over like final exams or deadlines are never quite the big deal we...

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your...

Routinely revisiting, clarifying, and reaffirming the principles by which you aim to live can help keep you accountable to the kind of person you promised yourself & others that you would be.

Today is as good a time as ever to do such a check-in. And who knows, perhaps you might...

Every journey has peaks and valleys — times when things appear to be going well and other times where your fortitude to persist is truly challenged. 

Given the precious and finite nature of your time, it is not unusual to wonder about the peaks and valleys you’ve gone through and ask...