Five Ways to Win Like the Toronto Raptors
The Toronto Raptors host the NBA Finals tomorrow. It’s the first time in the franchise’s 25-year history that they’ve gone so far in the postseason. A combination of resilience, diverse abilities and a focus on winning as a team have…
Three Coping Skills I Learned from a Five-Year-Old
A few weeks ago, my oldest kid started soccer. He’s five, like most of his teammates, and the experience is as adorable and hilarious as you’d expect. Despite all this delight, my wife and I screwed up is very first…
Three Ways to Make Your Own Luck
Growing personally and professionally in service of your community’s needs takes a little bit of luck. In our lives we will meet mentors and sponsors at dinner parties or sporting events who end up opening doors in our careers. Circles…
Three Adaptability Lessons from Pasta
Pasta can teach us things like being resilience and having a growth mindset.
Three Growth Mindset Tips from Old People at Swimming Pools
One of my lifetime goals is to cultivate an unbreakable and everlasting growth mindset. This is on display in swimming pools. Especially with senior citizens. Watching an elderly person dive off the 10-meter platform into the pool (or just to…
How to Cultivate an Owners Mindset
Today I turn 38 years old. Well into my late-30s and with a stronger sense of myself, I find myself reflecting daily about how I show up as a parent, colleague, friend, and leader in my community. Academics like Carol…
Five Career Building Lessons from the Social Committee
Social committees organize holiday gatherings and team building activities in workplaces around the world. One of the ways that I developed awesome human skills early in my career was by joining the social committee in pretty much every organization where…
How We Will Reach Our Potential in 2019
Every January our team at The Potentiality engages in a New Year’s tradition of making public commitments about how we will realize our potential as professionals, parents, partners, and human beings. For 2019, Godfrey, Michael, Kurt, and I are leveraging…
Five Questions to Ask Yourself About Minimalism
Minimalism means elevating the things that matter most in our lives and removing what distracts us from our true purpose. Yesterday was Christmas and many of us are probably reflecting on over indulgences and, perhaps, trying to find some quiet…
Why You Should Embrace Boredom
Many of us are addicted to distraction. We click between multiple screens with multiple apps with multiple tabs while our mobile device streams a podcast in the background. Every few minutes we will pick up our phone to text a…