When is up actually down and down actually up?
Let me share a true story with you. A number of years back, I enrolled in a scuba class with a bunch of friends from work at a YMCA in the suburbs of Chicago. Our instructor was a former U.S. Navy Underwater Demotion Team (UDT)…
Surfing the Tsunami of Change
Many things are causing unwanted change in your life. Back in 2004, an earthquake caused a “tsunami,” a wave one hundred feet tall, that caused major disruption to life in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. If you have ever seen any of the video footage of the…
Change: What Does it Take to Get to the Next Level?
Blog Post #1 An “edge” is place of contrast, a place of chaos, where boundaries are visible and encountered. Change occurs at the chaos of life’s edges. Change events can be unwanted or intentionally initiated in your life. When you face unwanted change at a current edge in your life such…
Podcast: Sometimes You Need a Different Shovel
You don’t need to be using an actual physical tool like a “shovel” to apply the lessons of this story to your life. The lessons can be applied to just about any situation in your life, your job, your relationships, your daily interactions with spouse,…