Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

During new employee orientation at my old hotel job, all staff were trained on a standard called lateral service. The hotel cross trained all teams to support each other by pitching in on various tasks that were outside of our responsibility, regardless of job description. Doing so not only promoted a culture of teamwork, but also eliminated the usage of the phrase, it’s not my job. William, the veteran…

First you write the book, then the book writes you. This universal law can bring us peace along our creative journey. Because although end user of whatever it is we’re working probably won’t appreciate or reward or even notice our diligence, we certainly will. That soothing sense of fulfillment we gain from the experience is something that nobody can take away from us. It’s like when a comedian, who…

My actor friend approaches auditions in an incredibly healthy and sane way. Here’s his process. Prepare well, show up fully, assume you’re not going to get the part, and the moment you walk out the door, never think about it again. This reveals a posture of wholeness that difficult for many performers to find. But after a dozen years in showbusiness, my friend knows that if he’s looking to…

In the fifteenth century, most of the world believed that the sun revolved around the earth. But then the unspeakable happened. Copernicus, the legendary mathematician and astrology, stumbled upon the realization that our planet wasn’t the center of the universe. Shortly before his death, the publication of his model became a major event in the history of the scientific revolution. Not surprisingly, it also royally pissed off the church….

We assume that something has to be hard for it to work. No wonder there is no shortage of bumper stickers, business books and novelty shirts with slogans that reinforce this fallacy. If it’s easy, then it’s not worth doing. If it isn’t hard, then it doesn’t count. If you’re not struggling, then you’re doing it wrong. f it’s not painful, then you’re not trying hard enough. Protestant work…