My Inc.com article today, “Have a Great Plan? Without Answering These 2 Questions You Don’t.” begins Have a Great Plan? Without Answering These 2 Questions You Don’t. Plans are easy. Executing them is harder and takes a lot longer–and not for what you can plan for. Here’s how to prepare for the unexpected. A client showed me his ambitious plan for professional development. It showed he had developed a lot, learned[…] Keep reading →

The other day I was interviewed for a podcast (I’ll link to it when they edit and post it). The interviewer asked me how I accomplished so much. I told him and his listeners to look up sidchas on my blog. Everyone who aspires to greatness knows the importance of building discipline, integrity, dedication, and other skills. I accomplish things by acting by my values. I practice with small challenges[…] Keep reading →

Healthy activities: Before, you don’t want to do them. After, you feel emotional reward that you did them. Unhealthy activities: Before, you want to do them. After, you regret doing them. For healthy, think exercise, cooking a nutritious meal, helping a friend, even reading a book. For unhealthy, think putting off exercising, eating junk or even just eating too much, staying home when you could help a friend, and watching[…] Keep reading →

I’ve meant to post a video of my burpee sidchas. Someone writing a book on high intensity interval training asked me for a video, so I finally recorded my morning and evening burpee sidchas. Maybe my burpee sidcha will show up in a book. I don’t claim they’re glamorous but I haven’t missed a burpee in over four years. I do them every day. I started with ten burpees a[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of series on the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity (SIDCHA), burpees, and cold showers. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click to view the SIDCHA series, the burpee series, and the cold shower series where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Yesterday’s webinar, on sidchas, my most comprehensive treatment to date:

[This post is part of a series on the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity (SIDCHA). If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] People keep getting it backward when they congratulate me on the five years of daily posts, four years of daily burpees, and other disciplined achievements. They say, “You[…] Keep reading →

Inc. Magazine, in its own words: For 35 years, we’ve been the premier publication dedicated to entrepreneurs—the most innovative, most courageous, and most essential business leaders in America. In that time, Inc. has won widespread recognition for maintaining the highest editorial standards as we’ve documented that world. How did it improve overnight? They hired me as their latest columnist! Today marks my first piece, “How I Wish Business School Had[…] Keep reading →