Pain, change, and business growth

I shared a little bit of my own story about a family business turnaround in a previous story here on Medium. In the end, few of the people in the top level management positions survived that turn around yet none of them were simply fired. Most left on their own […]

Fighting Against Gravity

Jocko Willink has some important words about a different kind of gravity:

FIGHTING GRAVITY. pic.twitter.com/yBHhvhYxzI

— Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) March 24, 2017

When you’re working out you’re fighting against gravity. Gravity is pulling the weights down, it is pulling your body weight down, it’s preventing you from […]

Excuses are not solutions

It has been about 30 years since I first used the phrase “excuses are not solutions.” I was on the phone with someone who was giving me an entire list of all the reasons why something could not be accomplished instead of offering any ideas of how to get what […]

Space is hard — and that’s okay

When something does not go quite right for anything to do with topic of space the common phrase that comes up is, “Space is hard.”

How hard is it? Listening to a talk by Captain Scott Kelly I heard him offer a statistic that gave me […]

Don’t worry, be happy (and stop complaining)

I challenge you to check out the Tim Ferriss podcast with Tony Robbins entitled “Achievement Versus Fulfillment.” With Tony’s teachings shaping my own life since somewhere before 1998 the surprise for me was hearing a few simple, but powerful, concepts told in ways I never heard before. This story is […]