Read this article on Substack! Life can be a fight. It is advantageous to be ambidextrous. Know how to operate in all situations and how to use your arsenal of skills. Sometimes things do not get better unless you make them better. Your breakthrough is in your adaptability. Adjust the way you play. Not everyone…
Over the course of the last month either directly or indirectly, I’ve been getting the same message, “do less.” I’ve railed against scope creep in my private time and prophetic utterances. In a podcast I recorded I had a business leader and professional flat out tell me that I’m better off refining my current offerings…
Mindfulness was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. He is a micro-biologist and American Professor who developed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in 1979. His purpose for doing so was to aid in physical pain management. Kabat-Zinn was inspired by Buddhism and incorporated some of its principles into his practice. In the Buddhist teachings mindfulness translates to a…
I graduated from college with my master’s degree in Applied Social and Community Psychology in 2019. In school I studied mental health and the consequences of various individual interests and influences on organizations. I was straight lace. I wanted to do my part to make sure things were done right, and I wanted to make…
On Thursday November 06, 2025 the results of Tesla shareholders voting on whether Elon Musk should receive a $1 trillion pay package, will be announced. This story caught my attention because in my naivety, I was chuckling at myself at the thought of Tesla’s payroll processing, paying out $1 trillion over the course of 52…
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds to ever live, said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Is that condition of existence ever, okay? Are there times in life when doing the same thing repeatedly in hopes of a different result, makes sense and is…
As a corporate professional I’ve encountered a sequence of behaviors on more than one occasion indicative of an active cognitive dissonance in the workplace. As it would turn out this revelation is not the phenomenon you may think it is. Cognitive dissonance can be a salient part of a workplace to the point where this…
I feel like I have a weird relationship with sports. I just finished watching a podcast with Venus and Serena Williams and it made me think about the impact sports has had on my life. Additionally I’m three days into a cut now so this topic is timely and relevant. I say I feel like…
I want to say that right now, it takes effort for me to do this. I don’t know how to get past this place without talking about it. Writing is an easy target because it’s our bread and butter; but in general and specifically with respect to the process of creating and publishing content of…
Read this article on Substack! We all have traditions or rituals. Things that we like to do. Things that we have done in a particular way for years. Or things that may have been passed down to us from our families. As you get older, sometimes those traditions do not necessarily lose value, but rather,…