The following is adapted from Breaking the Stigma by Charlena Berry. In summer 2020, my partner, Darrell, and I took our daughter and one of her friends on a 30-day RV trip around the country, concentrated in the Southwest. When we entered Texas, we saw a billboard that made us…

The following is adapted from Win‌ ‌Your‌ ‌Breakup‌ by Natasha Adamo. Toxic people send you down a path of addictively wondering whether they have changed. …

The following is adapted from I Hope We Never Meet by Andrew Finkelstein and Sarah Lunham. Ever wonder why you hear a lot more about frivolous lawsuits than you do about frivolous defenses? It’s because defense lawyers pump a great deal of money into the conversation. They take out ads…

The following is adapted from SIMPLE Scaling by Brendan McGurgan and Claire Colvin. I’ve been practicing martial arts for more than 25 years and have always been fascinated by the importance of mindset in performance and the many parallels between performance in elite sport and elite business. Take tae kwon…

The following is adapted from Secret Pandemic by Simone Heng. Singapore was always termed “home” in our family. When I was about eleven, I did a migrant’s writing course with my mom, and I wrote a piece where I, too, called Singapore home, not computing that these were simply my…

The following is adapted from Between the Lines by Jay Lind. I summoned my dad into my room one night when I was maybe fifteen years old. I wanted him to listen to a song I liked. This practice of trying to convince my dad that there was indeed some…

The following is adapted from The Tech Sales Warrior by Chris Prangley. The rep had just begun leading her own meetings. This was her breakout moment after her initial training when someone else ran her meetings. Now she would be the one in command. She researched the client, she got…

The following is adapted from InnerWill by Dr. Thomas Epperson. When you consider leadership, do you think of a CEO, a politician, a principal, the general manager of a team, or a pastor? Although these roles are important, the people in them are not necessarily leaders. …

The following is adapted from The EntreMD Method by Nneka Unachukwu. It was the most ordinary of mornings when my life changed. If there had been a video camera trained on me at that moment, nothing special would’ve been recorded. It was in 2016, and I was just sitting at…