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Welcome to the archives. These articles represent many different seasons of my career. You’ll find posts written during my doctoral studies, years of marketing consulting, entrepreneurial experiments, and the occasional reflection on whatever happened to be capturing my attention at the time.

Blogging looked very different when many of these posts were published. Rather than removing them or fixing broken links from now defunct themes, I’ve chosen to preserve them as a snapshot of where I was, what I was learning, and how my thinking has evolved over the years.

Some ideas have stood the test of time. Others reflect the questions I was wrestling with at that particular moment. Either way, they tell part of the story.

Fight for it

by | Feb 4, 2014 | Uncategorized

Every one of us striving for a better future will hit a point that deeply tests our resolve.

Life has currents that push against our dreams.

And these currents cause us to doubt ourselves, to doubt if we have anything to offer.

Stuck with the painful indecision that lies somewhere between uncertainty and lack of clarity, we find ourselves waffling.  Making gains one day only to hit a setback the next.

You have to forget how unreasonable your dream is.  You have to give yourself permission to be irrational.

You discover talent hidden deep within when you push into the place where you feel you should have given up long ago.

This is where you discover your greatness.

So, go down the rabbit hole.  Chase those dreams of yours.  Yes, you will look crazy.  And someone, or many someones will try to talk you out of it.

And you may even fail.

But you have to go “all in”.  You have to unpack for us everything you have to give.

Some people get their dreams handed to them.

For the rest of us, there comes a time when you have to fight for it.