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 →

Alisa Cohn is at the top of her field. She is one of Marshal Goldsmith’s Top 100 leadership coaches. She is one of Inc’s Top 100 speakers. And in this conversation, she talks about how she became a leadership coach, how she became a speaker, not just how she became this but how she reached the top of the field. I think this is actually probably the most laughter that[…] Keep reading →

Michael leads a busy schedule and that led his one-month commitment to do a habit turn into a five-month one. So this became a really long-term change. And he wrote a book on long-term change. So you’re going to hear some deep experience descriptions of how to take on habits from someone who’s taken on many habits and in this case inadvertently took on a five-month one when he’s expected[…] Keep reading →

For anyone who listened to Emily’s first conversation thought, “Oh, turning off a computer at night that’s not really that hard.” Having launched a book, it’s a very hard time. It’s extremely stressful. It’s not easy. She still did it. So you’ll hear, despite Emily’s defining environmental differently than I expected her experience was remarkably similar. I think if you’re listening to this in order to take on challenges yourself,[…] Keep reading →

After some scattered posts dating to 2008, today in 2011 I wrote my first post in an unbroken daily series leading to today, with no future break planned. So today is day 1 of year 8. That’s 2,551 days in a row and 2,852 posts (I posted more than one per day), for those keeping track. It become my first sidcha, followed by burpees, cold showers, picking up garbage, and[…] Keep reading →

Daniel and I had an unscripted, unguarded, very vulnerable conversation. It’s not often that two men on an Internet chat that tears well up and people get choked up. He actually ended up posting this interview on his podcast because of the rawness of the emotion that came up and so look at the notes for this podcast to get the links to his podcast to listen to that. This[…] Keep reading →