How To Leave a Great Lasting Impression

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” — Albert…

About the Time I Lost All of My $2 Bills

I lost 2000 two dollar bills.

Meet the world halfway

Be reasonably unreasonable

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw

3 quick writing tips for novelists

A friend who’s in the middle of drafting his first novel just emailed me asking for a few writing tips. I fired off a response and then realized it might be worth sharing here. Now that I’m working on my fifth novel, I’ve found that fiction is mostly a “learn by doing”…

This Is What Happens When You Give Your Customers More Than They Expect

It certainly worked for Uber.

Where’s the Manual to Tough Conversations?

My 5 year old asked me this morning: “Mom, what is a terrorist?”

It made me nauseous. In our home, we rarely watch local news, because every other story is about
murder
rape
theft
abuse…