Movements aren't only started by the crazy person who stands up first--they play a role. But movements start when the crazy person get someone to come behind them and say, "I'm going with you." In my new book "Anchored - The Discipline to Stop Drifting" I share a story of the Shirtless Dancer [...]

It is easy to hide in a group, or a system, and pass the buck to someone else, to give excuses why YOU didn't take action to help others--or fight for your own dreams. There is always an excuse. And as we float through life in our "groups" we find the our responsibility [...]

In all the years of the Tour-de-France, France had never won their nation’s own competition. That is, not until 2010, when the French cycling team hired a man named Dave Brailsford to coach them. Cue the Rocky soundtrack over a montage of Brailsford yelling and encouraging his team to train harder, to give [...]

Vilfredo Pareto was a leading economist, sociologist, and engineer in the 1800s. He is best known for the Pareto Principle, which is now known as the 80/20 Rule.[i] In short, the Pareto Principle explains the unequal distribution of wealth, income, land ownership, and production. Pareto stumbled upon this principle by observing how eighty [...]

In my early twenties, I looked at leaders around me who, so I thought, only needed four to six hours of sleep per night. I envied them, so I decided to give it a try. After a week of getting only six hours of sleep a night, I wound up sick, and it [...]

It was the summer of 1910. Virtually the entire world had been explored, and in the minds of many, only one frontier remained—the South Pole. Thousands of miles away from civilization, Antarctica remained one of the last places untouched by the modern world. Robert Scott from England and Roald Amundsen from Norway led [...]

As a global culture we are flooded with information, and with the more information we gather the more prone we are to paralysis. It is through repetition and continuous action that we are able to develop our skill set, our taste, and our ability to do great things--reading another book, watching another youtube [...]

We all have dreams. And we all like to talk about them. It makes us feel good, warm and fuzzy. But sharing your dreams with others is a baaad idea. There are one of FOUR things that will happen when you share what you plan on doing, and only one of them is [...]

Do you have a skewed view on adventure? Are you seeking the next high but are continually left disappointed? In my new book, Anchored the Discipline to Stop Drifting, I share how we have idolized adventure into so kind of selfie snapping vacation on the beach... when true adventure is about hard work [...]

Six years ago, 2013, my whole life changed. My western culture was confronted and I set out on a process, a journey, to better understand my culture, the culture of the Middle East--and how to life a focused life that wasn't merely busy, but a life that allowed me to achieve the results [...]