Sole in the Soil

“You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet.” -  Nick Fury – Iron Man   I have spent a lot of time, months really, trying to convince you to become the   best version of yourself . I hope you have both begun the process and enjoyed the journey towards “better”, and I sincerely hope that my previous posts have provided a necessary dose of inspiration. But like Iron Man, you are part of a bigg

“Between stimulus and response there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Victor Frankl | The Little Prince What do you care most about? I spend nearly every work day meeting with people who are interested in becoming a better version of themselves, and that is always the first question I ask. To be fair, it is an awfully intrusive and sometimes difficult question to answer, and I am often given supe

“You gotta keep livin’, man. L-I-V-I-N” Wooderson – Dazed and Confused Wooderson, the iconic, scene-stealing character played by Matthew...

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince What do you...

Hermes:   Course, there is another way, but I ain't supposed to say it. Orpheus: Another way? Hermes:  Yeah, around the back. But that ain't easy walkin', Jack. It ain't for the sensitive of soul, so...You really wanna go? Orpheus: With all my heart. Hermes:   With all your heart. Well, that’s a start. In the multiple Tony Award winning musical Hadestown, Orpheus seeks a path to rescue Eurydice, who is the love of his life. Without a train ticket, Hermes offers him an alterna

"Find something you care about and do what it takes to be great at it. We all have something special about us. The hard and exciting part is figuring out what it is." - Mark Cuban | Shark Tank Imagine being on ABC’s Shark Tank, standing in front of more than 200 years of combined business experience and more than $5 Billion dollars in net worth trying desperately to pitch a partner on your fledgling business idea and not knowing what you’ll say next.  From the comfort of our

“What is honored in a country will be cultivated there” -Plato, The Republic In his book The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner examines...

“How long can we fly on one engine?” -Lt. Luke Sinclair | Memphis Belle “I don’t know, I guess we’ll find out.” -Cpt.  Dennis Dearborn |...

“You Give Love a Bad Name.” -Jon Bon Jovi 4.3 Billion.  I searched for “songs about love” on Google and in less than 1 second, 4.3 billion search results were returned.  To say that our culture has...well, a love affair with love, would be an understatement.  And for good reason!  Love is a wonderful, powerful, and driving emotion.  Something that we seek out and sacrifice for.  Like great art, it’s something we can’t describe, but we know when we’re in the presence of it.  W

“Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.” -Unknown What are the characteristics of a great leader? The quote above is a great start in developing a definition, and my recent post titled Layups, Loops, and Leaders  touched on the subject, but what if I told you that I can show you a “How-to” video highlighting four important traits of a great leader in action? Would you be surpris

“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” -Albert Einstein Last month I wrote a message  regarding how your mindset often determines the quality of your commitment to your actions. The choice you have is whether you regard the task in front of you as something you “Won’t Do”, “Got

“I know who I am and who I may be if I choose.” -Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote In his classic novel Don Quixote , Spanish novelist, actor, and playwright Miguel de Cervantes explores idealism, nobility, society, and chivalry in a post-chivalric world through the admittedly reality-distorted lens of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his squire, Sancho.  Together they battle fictional armies, giants and Quixote’s own sanity in pursuit of an ideal.  Quixote, driven mad by the lack

“Fear is gravity, always telling you to take the easier path, and always downhill. Walk uphill; it is the door into awe and freedom.” - Banksy What keeps people from becoming the best version of themselves? Is it lack of skills, desire, or motivation? Last week’s PGA Championship at Bethpage provides a familiar environment to examine these questions. While Brooks Koepka went wire to wire for his second PGA Championship and 4 th  Major title, my inspiration for this email come

“Sisyphus, of course, was worried; he’d come to depend on his burden, he wasn’t sure who he was without it.” Sisyphus and the Sudden Lightness- Stephen Dunn In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was the evil and cunning king of Corinth, infamous for his trickery and for twice cheating death.  He was punished by Zeus for his misdeeds in life by being condemned eternally to roll a heavy stone up a hill. As he neared the top, the stone would roll down again, so that his labor was everlas