Recently, I noticed that Jenny purchased a body wash called “Hustle.” I laughed when I saw it because I’ve made a habit of overusing that word. I stopped laughing though when I saw the yellow callout on the bottle. “Compare to Old Spice Swagger Body...
A week ago, I announced I was holding a meme contest for the paperback launch of Do Over. (You can buy a copy right here.) The two winners would receive an awesome stack of books from Penguin. I thought I’d get a few entries and...
Have you ever dreaded Sunday night because it reminded you that Monday morning was coming? Have you ever looked at the clock expecting it to be noon and it’s only 10AM because your work day is dragging? Have you ever felt like one week of...
Win a free library from Penguin Books! One of my goals in life is to have a home library so big that I need one of those rolling ladders to get around. Will I sing from the top? We’ll see. I’m not ruling anything out....
I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that people who tell you “a job is just a job” are lying to you. Working for the weekend and living for vacation are terrible ways to go through life. Screw TGIF....
Last week, our internet went down. Because I work from home, I couldn’t do what you do in offices, which is stand up and yell, “Is it out for everyone or just me?” I called the cable provider and had the following conversation: Cable guy:...
If you’re not familiar with the song, “Christmas Shoes,” then enjoy this ornament we have on our tree, give a short thank you prayer to our Lord and Savior and skip this post all together. That’s a pretty charmed life you’re living friend. Savor it....
It took me sixteen years to write Do Over. That breaks down to a brisk twelve words per day. But it wasn’t the writing that took so long, it was the working. I had to work at big companies and small companies. I had to...
A multi-billion dollar company wants my friend to do free work for them in exchange for exposure. The company makes billions of dollars a year and wants to pay him zero dollars for the honor of working with them. This kind of thing often drives...
“We don’t want our employees to get too good at their jobs, because then they might leave.” It’s hard to believe a boss, manager or leader would ever say that sentence. It seems foolish that someone would have that attitude about the people who work...
