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"Where is the rescue squad?" Two Delta snipers. One crashed Black Hawk. Hundreds of enemy fighters. They knew the odds. They went anyway. Leadership is not what YOU say when the room is safe. It is what YOU do when someone needs YOU and the cost is everything. Love shows up. Becoming BTL. Black Hawk … Continue reading Send ME

Got through 20 chapters of Theo yesterday. The early theme was the power of being interested, sincerely interested in the world you occupy and the people around you. After 20 chapters that theme holds with some nuance. Theo, while a newbie to the town of Golden, is building community. He’s creating community, not waiting for … Continue reading Go giver > go getter…

3PP done. 40 mile ride in the books. Peej hooking my Apple Watch (glorified heart rate monitor) to the Pelly. Done so. Breakfast done. Coffee down the hatch. Video chat with Vivi done. Video chat with Andrew and Aedán done. Chill time with Miss in process. Reading Theo of Golden in process. Four pages in. … Continue reading Theo…

When someone stops believing, someone will soon be leaving. You don’t have a retention problem. You are not being held hostage against your will. Losing teammates you don’t want to lose or working for a dude who doesn’t deserve you? You have a belief issue. Someone will soon be leaving. Maybe, just maybe, there is … Continue reading When someone stops believing…

After a day of wait my hour finally arrived around 4pm. Wheeled me back to do the quick shock. Getting ready to put the old dog under and the nurses looked at each other and then me with puzzled faces. "He's back in sinus or something like that." I'm thinking what does my nose have … Continue reading All that wait…

Not all days are the same. We all know this. The Greeks helped us here. Chronos and Kairos. Chronos is the measurement of time. Kairos is the season of time.  June 24, 1982. Wedding day. Kairos. September 23, 1984. Jordan is born. Many more both good and not so good. August 19, 2026. Not sure. … Continue reading Days…

S+R=G or Stress + Rest = Growth. Shared this equation (that I learned from Brad Stulberg) with a team in a practice recently. Too little stress without adequate rest leads to chronic fatigue, burnout, sickness, injury, etc. Too little rest without enough stress leads to chronic boredom, stagnation, lack of growth. You want the sweet … Continue reading S+R=G

I heard the term “messy middle” about 10 years ago at one of the first leadership events I was blessed to attended and I have thought about that term almost every day since. A lot of people, especially parents, look back on a decade and say, “wow that flew by, where did the time go” … Continue reading A Decade (Part 2)…