Welcome to conversation number two with John Lee Dumas. You’re going to hear how John Lee Dumas inspired me, how he’s acting on his commitment. One of the biggest commitments of anybody on the show and that’s what’s inspired me back and his acting on it involving people in his neighborhood around him, involving people in his family. Really fun. He talks about joy. It’s going to be about how[…] Keep reading →

Listening to Balint’s third conversation now about six months after I’ve launched my podcast means a lot to me because I recorded this a long time before. It took a while to get through the editing process. It’s a big milestone for me although you can hear that the microphone back then wasn’t so good. Getting back to Balint, you can hear he planned and analyzed for a long time[…] Keep reading →

(I’ll probably get in trouble for this post. Only read if you take responsibility for the consequences.) Every performance field makes a big deal of failure. Look it up. Fail big! Fail fast! Failure is how we learn! Fail! Fail! Fail! I typed “You should fail” into duckduckgo and the top responses were: “8 Reasons Why You Should Fail As Much As You Can” “Why You Should Fail” “This is[…] Keep reading →

Cold Showers Aren’t Hard Showers. They’re Easy Workouts. Confusion about their purpose scare people from realizing their value as one of the easiest, cheapest, and effective improvement practices. I’ve written here many times on the benefits of cold showers. I’ve blogged more about them. You wouldn’t have clicked on the headline if you weren’t curious about them or already doing them. Inc. is a community of achievers and has covered[…] Keep reading →

Listen to the conversation. If you’re here for leadership, especially personal leadership, you’re going to hear about one of the most important things that you can do to improve. What Joel and I talked about, this is how you develop skills that people think that you can’t learn. Things like integrity, discipline, resilience and it’s going to come from a place where most people don’t expect to hear the stuff.[…] Keep reading →

If you’re here for leadership, especially personal leadership, you’re going to hear about one of the most important things that you can do to improve. What Joel and I talked about, this is how you develop skills that people think that you can’t learn. Things like integrity, discipline, resilience and it’s going to come from a place where most people don’t expect to hear the stuff. Cold showers. Cold showers[…] Keep reading →

029: Discipline and resilience If you’re here for leadership, especially personal leadership, you’re going to hear about one of the most important things you can do to improve. What Joel talks about and how he lives are how you develop skills people think you can’t learn, such as integrity, discipline, and resilience. You can, but you have to act—specifically to challenge yourself, not just passively read about or watch. We[…] Keep reading →