My Second Pillar of Sustainability: Happiness

My Second Pillar of Sustainability: Happiness

In my previous two posts, I described my three pillars to a meaningful life: health, happiness, and connection. They are 3 lenses that I use to evaluate everything I do in life and see whether it’s contributing positively to my life or not. Then I went into a bit more detail about how I use the lens of health. Now […]

My First Pillar of Sustainability: Health – How Living Healthy Creates Meaning While Also Positively Impacting The Planet

My First Pillar of Sustainability: Health – How Living Healthy Creates Meaning While Also Positively Impacting The Planet

In my previous post, I described my three pillars to a meaningful life: health, happiness, and connection. They are 3 lenses that I use to evaluate everything I do in life and see whether it’s contributing positively to my life or not. Health is the first and most obvious one to understand why I include it. Why health is foundational […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #12: Feedforward

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #12: Feedforward

Exercise 12 of Leadership Step By Step was “Feedforward”, an exercise developed by Marshall Goldsmith to ask for advice instead of asking someone to evaluate something you did in the past (AKA “feedback”). In short, the exercise asks you to pick something you want to improve at, ask for advice using a specific script, ask some clarifying questions if necessary […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #11: Avoid Imposing Values

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #11: Avoid Imposing Values

We’re at the halfway point of Leadership Step By Step’s exercises! This week’s exercise was to avoid imposing values on other people. What exactly does that entail? To start, avoid using the terms “good”, “bad”, “right”, and “wrong”, but with a stretch goal of also avoiding “should”, “appropriate”, “better”, and “worse”, among a few others. Not forever, but just for […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #10: No, But, However

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #10: No, But, However

For the tenth exercise of Leadership Step By Step, I had a deceivingly simple task: do not start responses with the words “no”, “but”, or “however.” The goal of which was to become more self-aware of how you interact with people and specifically, whether you are communicating in a way that is detrimental to relationship-building. What does a good conversation […]

Blackout! Lessons Learned From a Night Without Electricity

Blackout! Lessons Learned From a Night Without Electricity

January 26th, 2025 – 8:12pm: CRACK-BOOM! It was like lightning had just struck our house. All the lights go out as we’re dropped into darkness. My wife, step-mother, and daughter scream as both the baby and dog come running terrified. I go to the window to check how many of our neighbors are affected by the blackout. Total darkness. It’s […]

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