Author: Chet

Great athletes & entrepreneurs develop a feel for the game. We are meant to feel life. Your feelings are not to be ignored nor allowed to run wild. All decisions are, in fact, emotional at the root. This is painful to admit. Wisdom requires we integrate feeling and thinking. We think we’re rational, right? We … Continue reading Feel life…

Excellence begins when we learn to do hard things kinda shitty and don’t quit. As we continue to learn to do hard things we begin to believe we will learn to do them well. Excellence is found by learning to do the right, hard things well. Masters do hard things well while making it look … Continue reading Excellence…

Pain is inevitable, misery is a choice. Peace is found on the other side of acute pain. Chronic pain is slow death in the making. I could go on. I’ll stop. Your worldview is your matrix through which you make sense of the world. Have you authored your own? Are you aligning behaviors against deeply … Continue reading Pain…

Play back what you heard is the habit of master connectors. Why? Because every human has a hard time hearing, especially when the little voice in our head keeps turning up the volume on those old scripts we’ve failed to override. So, leader, get in the habit of asking the team to play back what … Continue reading Play back what you heard…

I believe music and movies are meant to move us. Sometimes there are no words, just artful composition. My favorite Berlin artist (Parra for Cuva) just put out a piano track titled This is Life. No words. Moved me. Sometimes it’s a John Mellencamp lyric from A brand new song, you know. Sometimes the movie … Continue reading Move…

Oneness is the heart of high performance for any individual, team, or leader. Oneness is not sameness. Oneness is not easy and it’s unsustainable. Oneness must be fought for and oneness requires consciously choosing to lose. Oneness requires love. Oneness energizes obedience, loyalty, discipline, and dedication. Oneness has you finishing each others thoughts, covering each … Continue reading Oneness…

All virtue is built going against our nature. You will not achieve moral excellence doing what comes naturally. The laws of nature tell us what nature truly does. The laws of human nature tell us what we humans ought do but can’t quite get ourselves to do. In other words, if it feels good - … Continue reading Virtue…

Hurting people do not hear well. Most humans are hurting most of the time. Repeat yourself, leader, without an attitude - unless your attitude is filled with gratitude. Your worldview matters. Time for a hard rinse? Live hard. Love harder. Hear the yearning, not the whining. Damn…