Author: David Deck

Before I met Chet and began this journey of becoming “fully alive”, I played life a lot like Animal from the Muppets. When I was passionate about something, I banged and banged and banged away, exhausting myself and others around me. I used to get into heated debates arguments fights in very unproductive and unhealthy … Continue reading Day 10: The melody line of BTL…

Yesterday, GuRue encouraged you to answer a seemingly simply question: Why are you here? Usually when we ask this question of our clients or their teams, we get a question back: “What do you mean: here in this room, here at this company, here on this earth?” We simply reply, “Yep, just write.” Writing about … Continue reading Day 2: Why we write…

I had a new client share their heart and bear their soul with me today. A true privilege, honor and responsibility. They are doing amazing work and challenging everything for all the right reasons. You see, they are willing and wanting to go there, but need to know that I'm trustworthy. It triggered a memory … Continue reading Trustworthy…

I remember the first time I heard the phrase “the damn few” in reference to those who reach a super-elite level in whatever it is they do. I immediately wanted to become one of the few and band together with others aiming for the same thing. I’m on my way. The BTL band of builders … Continue reading Day 120: Damn few…

Yep, Elle Woods from Legally Blonde is the topic du jour.  She’s an absurd character who illustrates the power of owning your Identity.  I can relate. In Daniel Coyle’s book The Culture Code, he shared some research that was done on the performance of different groups when challenged to do a simple task.  In this case, … Continue reading Day 119: Elle Woods…

Chet ended today’s day in the book with this question, “Are you humble enough to ask for help?” Don’t move past this one too fast, sit with it for a minute and hear me out. More times than not, I think people don’t even know they need help. Initially, at least, it might not be … Continue reading Day 118: Domain specific…

Today was one of those good, long days.  It started at 8:30am with a BTL team practice and ended with my daughter's high school band concert just after 9pm.  Not a minute wasted in between.  I’m tired, the good kind.  I don’t have much energy left, so I’ll just share a few Passions from my … Continue reading Day 117: The gold standard…

I have very little will power when it comes to doing things I don’t want to do. Viktor Frankl helped me work on this. In his book, Man’s Search For Meaning, he articulates the will to meaning is the one you want. Let me explain… Frankl was a neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author and Holocaust survivor. … Continue reading Day 116: What the hell…