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It's challenging to maintain progress in endeavors that matter (never mind sustain progress).

Why?

Entropy.

What's entropy?

Entropy is the inclination for untended things to decline into disorder.

For instance, if you don't maintain healthy eating and exercise habits, your body (along with your...

What is the power of identifying a purpose for your life?

Purpose has incredible health benefits (for instance, it lowers incidences of stroke, dementia, and heart disease).

For difference-makers like you and me, however, purpose also boosts motivation, productivity, resilience, and focus. 

To set yourself apart as a difference-maker, you must define, embrace, and share the unique perspective, exceptional talent, or signature process that sets you apart.

Is identifying what sets you apart, your distinctive edge, as a difference-maker a challenge? 

Totally understand, I've been...

Are you ready to stop settling for less and start living the life you truly want? Follow these principles to learn how to identify and achieve what you really want from your life's next chapter.

What do you want in life?

It's the first question I ask a new or prospective client.

Most find it a...

How do you navigate the inevitable uncertainties and adversities that come with making a difference in your life’s next chapter with greater clarity, confidence, and peace of mind?

The best way to find my way is to help others find theirs.

Of course, everyone’s “what’s...

In the second half of life, we may feel uncertain and vulnerable.

You have an intuition that you can be and do more and better, but you need to figure out how to develop and step into that potential.

What to do?

It begins with trusting yourself enough to take small bets on yourself.

Be open...

How do you get clear about and closer to what you want in your life's next chapter?

Force multipliers and leverage.

Embracing your unique experience and perspective informs idiosyncratic insights and skills that provide leverage to ratchet yourself forward into possibility.

Force multipliers are...

What’s the first step toward a second half of life filled with more joy, purpose, and peace of mind?

Receptivity.

There’s a moment when we realize there’s more living behind us than in front. It can be depressing and even triggering.

But the second half of life is also an...

What’s the most effective way to get closer to what you want in the second half of life?

Restraint.

The first half of life rewards you for chasing more.

More money. More status. More stuff. More, more, more…

But has this relentless pursuit of happiness actually made you happy?

The...

The second half of life can be a time of high anxiety due to uncertainty and fear about what the future holds.

And...

It can be a time of reflection, introspection, and a renewed sense of purpose.

But how do you reconcile these competing dynamics and create asymmetry to the upside of a second...

The game of life is played in two halves. 

The first half of life is spent in a relentless and undisciplined pursuit of more.

More money. More status. More stuff. More, more, more…

Whether due to a crisis or an epiphany, some of us wake up to the false promise of the “pursuit of...