All Past Articles
Is Curiosity The Cure For Conflict?
Conflict is an unavoidable experience of life. In this short essay I’ll discuss how avoiding conflict can actually lead to more conflict, and that curiosity may be the key to unlocking the potential for growth and development that resides within conflict itself....
6 Principles Leaders Can Use To Thrive In Life And Work
In this article, I’ll be sharing with you a few strategies for improving personal resilience. These come from the insights I’ve gained from over 25 years of helping combat veterans, public servants, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to thrive in the midst of...
Non-Dualistic Cognitive Reframing Can Make Your Life Feel Easier!
It’s no secret that life is filled with challenges and difficulties. In fact, it seems that life continues to become more complex socially, politically, technologically, and economically. I’ve heard so many people recently talking about how much they miss...
How to maximize your impact and income by stacking your most valuable skills
People often confuse their resume, qualifications, credentials and experience with their value in the workplace. While these things contribute to their value, what they represent are their marketable skills, and not always the most valuable ones. For this article I'll...
The Only Self Help Advice You’ll Ever Need – Lessons from Steven Pressfield
Contributed by: Toni Witt from The Utopian. Ironically, pounding through self-help books is sabotaging your efforts for real improvement because most self-help books are just fluff. I read too many thinking they’ll make me a better person, only to realize they all...
The Case For Massive Innovation Now
“Why do you climb mountains, Mr. Messner?” “Because they are there” - Reinhold Messner. First solo ascent of Mt. Everest In September 2020 a fire tore through our small semi-rural town in Southern Oregon. The combination of an extremely hot and dry climate,...
Sleeping For Peak Performance(Part 1: NavigatingThe Stages of Sleep)
Good, consistent, high-quality sleep is not just helpful for experiencing flow and peak performance, it's a prerequisite. The problem is, the definition of good sleep is often confusing for many people. In this section, we'll explore what good sleep actually is,...
Three Keys to Peak Performance
It’s no secret that life and business are becoming more complex than ever before, especially for founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. Looking over your shoulder, you see an endless line of competition, all of which want your share of the market. ...
5 Simple Ways to Increase Flow and Peak Performance In Life and Work (Part2)
In this short article I will outline 5 simple ways to access flow state easily and more consistently so you can be more productive, creative and fulfilled in your life and work. If you want to read part 1 first, click this link here. We will discuss: 1. Two...
5 Simple Methods to Access Flow and Peak Performance in Life and Work (Part 1)
In the early nineties, Laird Hamilton, world champion surfer and father of big wave surfing was facing a dilemma. His favorite activity in the world, surfing, was beginning to lose its appeal and excitement for him. He was circling the edge of boredome...
Using First Principles to Excel In Life and Business
First crawl, then walk and then run… It’s all right there in that one silly phrase. The key to doing and accomplishing anything in life follows this commonly stated but, in my experience, rarely followed first principle. If you’ve spent any time around toddlers it’s...
Working With Frustration
The ability to work with frustration is one of those skills that often distinguishes the very best in any field. Frustration is a unique emotional experience that can fracture into other emotions like anger, sadness, despair, rage or sometimes psychotic laughter. In...
The Art of Entrepreneurship
Professional artists are entrepreneurs, and successful entrepreneurs are artists. Many people in these two groups often do not see themselves as such. Nevertheless they are. Entrepreneurs see opportunities in the needs of those around them and are able to use their...
Zone 2 Training For Mental Performance And Creativity
IMPROVE MENTAL PERFORMANCE AND CREATIVITY WITH ZONE 2 AEROBIC TRAINING This is an action-oriented, non-technical (well…less technical) article about improving your mental performance and creativity through Zone 2 Aerobic Training. If you’re interested in taking...
Standing Alone
I wrote this during a challenging time while I was reflecting on the sheer courage that it sometimes takes to just get up in the morning and to move throughout our day. Sometimes I feel a massive sense of hopefulness and excitement about my life, my...
Stress Resilience – Riding The Redline (Part 3)
BECOMING IMMUNE TO STRESS This is the third and final article about stress resilience in the Ride the Redline series. It also showcases the thing I’m most excited about in helping you to develop a proactive immunity to stress. Here’s a link to the two other parts for...
Stress Resilience – Riding The Redline (Part 2)
OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN The Quick and Dirty This is the second part of our stress resilience series called Ride The Redline. Click here to read the original article. Not knowing the causes of stress will worsen the experience of stress.We can learn to...
Stress Resilience – Riding The Redline (Part 1)
HARNESSING THE POWER OF STRESS The Quick and Dirty Stress resilience is all over the media and stress has such a bad reputation, but it’s not all bad! In fact, we can learn to harness the power of stress to become more resilient, more creative and more...
Autopilot Works….For A While
The Nitty Gritty There’s so much emphasis on creating good habits. Health habits, financial habits, relationship habits, habits for success. In fact some behaviorist would have us believe that we are nothing more than the sum total of our habits. ...
Try The Free Will Experiment
Introduction: Here’s a quick exercise you can do to further your development of mental flexibility and adaptability. Questioning tightly held assumptions and engaging in provocative thought experiments are good ways for maintaining a sharp, adaptive, and...
The Power of Ideas
Ideas are powerful. They are a force of human nature. One idea, a simply constructed phrase or sentence, can completely alter the path of one’s life or the lives of billions of people. Just as we move through our physical environment, we are simultaneously...