From the category archives:

Core

What is Worth Doing? Smurfs and Schwarzenegger.

We have thousands of choices to make everyday. While the little ones may seem unimportant and nearly irrelevant, they aren’t. Because they come in limited supply. Sooner or later (hopefully much, much later) we’ll all be dead and gone. Some of our choices will outlive us. Some won’t. But they all matter. So how do you chose? How do you decide what’s worth doing?

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How to turn Sweat into Gold

Ask a coach why a kid should join a sport and he might say ‘It builds character.’ While true, that’s a pretty lame and generic answer. I say generic because I believe the reason people say it because they heard someone else say it once and it sounded good so they decided to use it. Us humans are funny like that.

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How to Know Your Goals Suck….And What to Do About it

I’m a big fan of accountability. Especially public accountability. Some of the things I am most proud of accomplishing were achieved simply because I told so many people what I was doing that I felt huge pressure to deliver lest I lost face. But that sort of thing only works on good goals. And by good goals I mean goals that don’t suck. And by goals that suck, I mean goals that never will and never can get done.

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Motivation

I’ve been thinking about what makes people do what they do. Specifically, what makes people do great things. Difficult things. Things that are impressive. Things that make people stop and say ‘Holy Crap!’ What makes people with those big, audacious goals stay on course when the going is so rough that it amounts to torture? What is the difference between those who identify such a goal and those that achieve it?

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