
You Don’t Have to Choose Between Your Kids and Your Commission
A client of mine — John — once told me, almost as a confession, that he’d missed his daughter’s school assembly for the third time that term because a…

A client of mine — John — once told me, almost as a confession, that he’d missed his daughter’s school assembly for the third time that term because a…

I once told a stressed-out client — John — to spend ten minutes each morning just writing down whatever was in his head, no structure, no goal. He rolled…

A principal I coach — call him John — ran a thriving office and told nobody that he hadn’t had an honest conversation about how he was actually doing in…

I had a client — John — who kept running his business the exact same way through a boom and then through the downturn that followed it. Same spend, same…

In 2019 I spent ten days in complete silence on a Vipassana meditation retreat — ten hours of meditation a day, eighteen hours of fasting, no talking, no…

In May 2019 I trekked to Everest Base Camp with a group of real estate professionals. None of us summited anything technical. What broke people wasn’t the…

A principal I coach — call him John — used to measure his office’s health by how late the lights stayed on. Longer hours felt like commitment to him. To…

I once asked a client — John — why he kept jumping strategies every six weeks. He admitted it: the moment something stopped feeling immediately rewarding…

I sat in on a leadership review once where a principal proudly told me his team felt fully supported. I asked his team the same week. Almost none of them…

I once coached a principal — call him John — running a multi-million-dollar agency. Business: flawless. Everything else: quietly falling apart. His…