7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 12 There's a story about an arts professor who split his pottery class into two groups. The first group only had to produce one piece for the entire year. One shot at perfection. The second group was graded on volume — they had to produce as many pieces as … Continue reading The Volume Group
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Never Ring the Bell
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 10 I'm reading Admiral McRaven's Make Your Bed this week. In Navy SEAL training, there's a brass bell. If you want to quit, you ring it. You're done. No more cold water, no more impossible runs, no more being pushed past what you thought you could take. McRaven's message: … Continue reading Never Ring the Bell
What Twenty Minutes Will Tell You
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week It’s 80 degrees. I’m in jeans and a black shirt, walking downtown in full sunlight with a balding head, talking into my phone passing a bus stop at 12:45 in the afternoon. I’ve got about 14 things on my to-do list and I’m trying to unload my brain before it … Continue reading What Twenty Minutes Will Tell You
Not All About Me (Fourteen Years Later)
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week In 2012, I wrote a blog post called “It Is Not All About Me.” I was writing about collaborative leadership — about casting a vision and then letting other people help shape it instead of dictating every step. It was a good post. It was also about half of the … Continue reading Not All About Me (Fourteen Years Later)
The Beauty of Routines
Most writing about habits frames them as productivity tools. Build the right habit, do the thing, become the more efficient version of yourself. The vocabulary is discipline, willpower, accountability, consistency. That’s not why I built mine. I built mine to give my brain somewhere to go when it would otherwise reach for food, wine, or … Continue reading The Beauty of Routines
