0021: STEPPING UP TO THE LINE

0021: STEPPING UP TO THE LINE

Motivation is expressed by a simple equation that computes the delta between what we want and what we have. Most often people attempt to equate this to monetary wealth and material accumulations. Earn $500k, you want to earn $1M. Have a nice house, you want a bigger...
0020: WE WILL BE ALL RIGHT

0020: WE WILL BE ALL RIGHT

Huddled with colleagues on the cobblestone in front of Delmonico’s. The island rumbled with the South Tower giving way to her damages. Ominous and iconic dust engulfed downtown like a plague riding the morning breeze. “It’s coming!” she shrieked; covered, we walked....
0019: PEAK PERFORMANCE IN THE BEDROOM

0019: PEAK PERFORMANCE IN THE BEDROOM

Before everyone starts drawing back their bows, there is a typo in the title. It should be Boardroom. Let’s start here: we all appreciate a nice, strong agenda. Innuendo aside, we are all on some sort of mission and the longer it takes to declare that to our audience,...
0018: MICRO-BURNING THE SHIPS

0018: MICRO-BURNING THE SHIPS

To use the parlance of our times, one might go “all in” when speaking metaphorically about full investment in achieving a particular professional outcome. With a hybrid WSOP meets YOLO mentality, we may begin to navigate a trail through the woods of distraction that...
0017: AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN

0017: AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN

Lightning rods are designed to attract naturally occurring electrostatic discharges in the atmosphere. When two electrically charged regions equalize themselves, a massive, bright, spontaneous crackle of energy is produced. Lightning is attracted down from the clouds...
0016: FOUR LETTER WORDS

0016: FOUR LETTER WORDS

GOLF I love golf. It was not always this way – I used to only admire golf, and simultaneously be wildly frustrated by it. Now it is a full blown love affair. It started as an opportunity to spend some time with my dad, lugging his old clubs around Eisenhower...