7.6.2010

3 Clues to Achieving the Impossible

There is no one secret formula to doing amazing things – to achieving the impossible.  Timing, a lot of effort, and good old-fashion “luck” have a way of making what someone else has already done pretty hard to reproduce. Which


2.3.2010

Seth Godin Inspires Indispensable Edginess.

Is what you doing right now something the world can’t live without?  Are you the difference between success and failure?  Are you truly indispensable?


1.27.2010

No. I'm Not Like That.

We hate to be misunderstood. Better yet, we can’t stand over-hearing (in someone else’s casual conversation) that our motives or intention suck. How many times have you been in a conversation with a bunch of people when you thought you


1.5.2010

Yep… Your New Year Resolutions are Worthless.

It’s that time of year again where we take stock of our poor performance from last year and write down blissful wishes for what we want to make happen this year. It actually a pretty worthwless activity…


12.22.2009

Can I just pretend I really, really care about you and send you an e-card for Christmas?

This weekend, the missus and I wrapped up our shopping for family for the holidays.  I have to say: “We were more thoughtful this year than any time previously…” (at least I thought so) We really thought through the whole


12.16.2009

Unscientific Research: Fix your wallet to fix your head to fix your wallet…

Do you have big dreams? For 2010?  For right now? What you do, how far you succeed, what you achieve — they all come from what you think about. They all come from what you are thinking about RIGHT now…


11.25.2009

Obsessively Searching for Stellar…

Many thanks to the dozens of you who have sent me kind messages over the last two weeks asking where The DEW View! had gone.  Nowhere. I just didn’t have


9.15.2009

Stolen Shoes and Bad Movie Mojo.

Two stories. One central theme. It all started on Friday with a call from my friend, Jill Stelfox…


8.20.2009

Attacking the hill.

  Last year as I trained for a UFC fight I spent time in the gym pretty much every day running on the treadmill, pushing some weights, and hitting the heavy bags (The speed bag is still a challenge…).  After


8.7.2009

Myth: Thinking Actually Helps

High-performers in the world of “deal making” share the universal quality of self-assessment. It’s an internal process of strategically measuring the inputs and outputs of a process or idea (or just “what went down…”) and deciding if it could be


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