How often do we sharpen our saws?  I know for me, it isn’t often enough and I have the bad habit of continuing to push myself when my body is screaming for rest.

I wasn’t going to write a post about this because I mistakenly thought the information was widely available, known, and accepted by business owners. However, just over the past week, I have seen countless posts and messages in various business groups from business owners...

Why do we avoid making decisions? In some cases, it has to do with the choice architecture of the thing to be decided upon. We might not have any opportunity to practice our options.  Thaler and Sunstein say, "Practice makes perfect (or at least better). Unfortunately, some...

A little story time. A few months back, Damien took one of our vehicles in for its annual state inspection to a local place that does inspections, but it’s primary business is tire sales. It passed inspection, and he drove it home. On the way home, he noticed that the tire...

At the beginning of this quarter, one of my ABC Model goals was to write no less than three and no more than five posts per week (one of the tactics from Effortless that I wrote about in Book Brew 43). While I have written a few posts so far this quarter, they haven’t been...

Normally, I would be writing a reading insight for my Book Brew series. However, at the beginning of this monthly series, Catchafire announced their Volunteer of the Month, and it just happens to be our very own CEO, Damien.  

Damien and I have had many conversations about our upbringings and how vastly different they were. In one of our recent conversations, we got on the subject of how those around us, while we were growing up (and in some cases even still today), tend to put up walls. We were...

Some days, I read passages in these books and can sit down and write out my thoughts right then. Then, there are other times when the passages are so thought-provoking that I need time to digest and reflect on what I have read before putting my thoughts onto paper. The...

I have written two blog posts (Book Brew 33 and Book Brew 66….too bad this one isn’t #99 for a cool pattern—though I suppose 76 is still a neat number... if you squint.) on the topic of empathic listening and effective communication, so you would think I have said all...

I found some interesting contrasts in business advice today that I initially took as conflicting advice. However, after pondering it a bit, I realized that the advice compliments, not conflicts.