Our book, The Well-Being Bucket List: 29 Mindful Choices is a sort of written podcast of twenty-nine conversations between us in which we explore possibilities for living that could better serve our well-being (and that of those around us) each day. One of our favorite conversations unpacked the meaning underlying the quotation from Pierre Teilhard […]

Co-authoring two recent books and tag teaming on leadership, coaching, and life posts with my friend and colleague Will Keiper has been a major factor in my decision not to retire from my career, just yet. I was all set to watch sports, play my guitar and laze around with family for a “living” when

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain, By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I- Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. ~Vladimir Nabokov (Pale Fire) As my talented editor, Chris Nelson, and I were selecting the short pieces of writing for my latest book,

What holds a lot of people back from money is just the fear of asking for it. This happens on many levels. Including asking for more of it. There’s fear that if you have a business or offer a service and you raise your prices—and we encounter this constantly with business owners we coach—people will

Pay close attention whenever you are frustrated by anything. The things that are frustrating you about your business, and the things that are frustrating you about your life as a consumer, could be the very things that cause a wellspring of success. Frustration is where attention needs to be paid, rather than wishing that part

“You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones that do what you do.” ~Jerry Garcia When you can specialize in something you’ll speed up on your road to success. A lot of people are coaches today. And recently we went to a

Your teammates don’t do good work when they surrender and become unhappy. They don’t think of fresh ways to help you. They don’t make the customer want to come back. In fact, if you get enough unhappy players on your team, the whole mission can fall apart. So their happiness comes first. Before money, before

I was once the owner of a company, decades ago, before I became a coach. And due to poor leadership, it eventually went bankrupt and so did I. Among the many lessons learned the hard way, was that I was not a good listener and I didn’t listen to my people. I thought leadership meant

Will Keiper is a prosperous and internationally known business consultant and on-demand leader who has worked with clients all over the world. He is so gifted in taking companies in distress and turning them around that he doesn’t have time to serve all who need him. Yet Will is so dedicated to his own craft,

As a coach who often coaches leaders, I benefit from reading the best and most current and enlightened books and articles on leadership from people who have the real-life experience to back up what they are recommending. I have benefitted from my regular brainstorming sessions with Will Keiper (the Leader in our book The Leader