30 May Choose delight. – Guest Post by Casey Lewis

(I’ve been writing a lot about delight lately. Today, Casey Lewis steps in to add to the conversation with a great guest post!) Golf is one of the few activities you can do consistently for 20 years and never get any better. I’ve recently decided...

29 May Please caption this.

I took this photo at the grocery store yesterday. I have to imagine it’s pretty amazing to be the royal dog. You probably get to chew on dinosaur bones and what not. (Not sure why access to fossils is my definition of amazing, but there...

02 May 5 ways to charge clients more money.

For the last few years, I’ve been coaching entrepreneurs. I’ve helped an illustrator who wants to illustrate live events, one of the world’s top UFC trainers who is rebranding and a developer who builds builds. Though their businesses are all different, there is one thing...

30 Apr Dear entrepreneurs, I was wrong.

I had no idea how hard it was to be a small business owner until I started one. For 15 years I was part of some amazing companies. All along I thought I had a sense of what small business really meant. If you had...

28 Apr Should you work for free for exposure?

My friend Robert D. Smith is one of the smartest marketers I’ve ever met. He’s absolutely brilliant. One day I was telling him that often people ask me to do things for free but they promise it will be “great exposure.” The idea is that...

17 Apr I dare you to try.

Every adventure is different but the invitation always says the same thing: “I dare you to try.” Whatever you’re supposed to do in life. Whatever dream you have. Whatever mission or moment you are in the middle of, that is the drumbeat. “I dare you...

14 Apr 1 big reason no one is buying your book.

When I wrote the book Quitter, people initially said two things to me: 1. “I’d read your book, but I don’t want to quit my job right now.” 2. “I’d read your book, but I don’t want to be a writer.” Both of those statements were...

28 Mar Sometimes there is harm in asking.

Occasionally, people will ask me for something and I will say no. They will then say, “Well, there’s no harm in asking.” That’s a fun, old chestnut but it’s a lie. Sometimes there is a lot of harm in asking. Sometimes you burn a relationship...

21 Mar The island and the bridge.

Chasing a dream is like being on an island. You spend months, maybe even years working that geography. You know every palm tree, every rock, every flower of that small landscape. This is your baby, this is your dream! And it’s an amazing island, I...