Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! Two years ago this week I had one of my worst travel days ever. y flight got delayed for an hour. Then two. Then four.... And in the end - we departed the airport nine hours after the originally scheduled time. There was lots to complain about that day, but it actually turned into one of the most encouraging days Iāve ever had. And the reverberations of what happened that day continue to impact my life to this day. FROM WORST TO BEST...
8 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good afternoon! Last week we traveled across the country with our kids. There were great memories made - and the whole trip felt like a Worthy Win. On top of that, there was a particular memory from one of our travel days that will be forever burned into my memory. Anyone who has traveled with youngish kids knows that there are invariably lots of things that come up and make the trip interesting. With the current ages of our kids one of those...
about 1 month agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! Three years ago this week I was soaking in my last days as a Nike employee. At that point there wasnāt much work left for me to do. It felt like I was retiring and getting to slowly say my goodbyes. On my second to last day I had five or six coffee (tea) chats with dear friends catching up and bidding my farewells. As that day was coming to a close, my team threw a party for me on patio outside the Serena Williams building. (I'm so...
about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 5 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! Do you ever have days where you feel like you are SUPER productive? Almost like the world has slowed down but youāve sped up and are crushing it. I do know that feelingā¦ but earlier this year those days were feeling few and far between. Finally, two months ago I was at my wits end. I couldnāt string together any consistent deep work time. The meetings were endless. I was constantly being bombarded by the urgent over the important....
about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 6 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Hi friends, Five years ago this week I received a phone call that altered my life forever. I wasnāt expecting it. I wasnāt planning for it. I definitely didnāt want it. But āthe callā came regardless. And the only thing I could do at that point was embrace the circumstances and make the best of them. MY LIFE-ALTERING CALL It was about 8:30am on a normal Thursday morning when I looked at my phone and saw my stepmom, Jan, was calling me. That was...
2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 5 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Hi friends, This may seem like a strange question - but bear with me. Who remembers using VHS players to watch movies? What used to be required to watch a movie I know there are a variety of ages on this email, and Iām dating myself slightly here, but Iām okay with that. (For the Gen Z / Alpha friends hereā¦ we used to have watch movies on video tapes that required rewinding before returningā¦ not just clicking a button and streaming on demand....
2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 6 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! If someone with hundreds of thousands of followers started mocking you online, how would you respond? It feels like there are a few optionsā¦ Reply back defending yourself or tearing them down Get your homies charged up and have them go into attack mode in the comments Ignore them publicly but skewer them privately Do nothing at all Befriend them I can tell you which of the options I would be least likely to do - and it would 100% be...
3 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! Are you a person with BIG goals for your life? Or even, do you know someone or an organization with a gigantic ambition? When I first left Nike, there was a team I started consulting with that had huge dreams. They had a very aspirational ambition they were chasing as a company. It sounded good coming off the tongue and it looked amazing on paper. And the initial trend line was tracking for incredible revenue growth. But truth was...
3 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 5 min read
Get Clear. Take Action. Win Where It's Worthy Good morning! Yesā¦ Iām baaaaaaack. And Iām incredibly excited to be writing again. Where have I been? It's felt like everywhere, except writing. The last six weeks of summer were chaotic and I didnāt make writing a priority. There's some lessons I learned that will help me course correct for next summer when the inevitable chaos happens, but for now I'll just say I had a great summer with my fam that was full of Worthy Wins. In the meantime, there...
3 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 5 min read