Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

My psychologist friend says the most dangerous part about being a gambling addict is that you have hope. You always maintain the obsessive belief that you’re just one bet away from turning it all around, solving all your problems and getting back on your feet. That’s right man, after this last big score, it’s smooth sailing from here on out. No more hemorrhaging cash, dragging my family into debt…

Some people have a straight vector line, right out of the womb. They don’t waver and wrestle with those identity doubts that plague the most of us. All they know is, there’s this thing that sticks inside of them that says, you were born for this, and so, they never even consider doing or being anything else. Palnik, one of my favorite cartoonists, was showing his books and prints…

What if you were independent of the outer world as your primary source of satisfaction? What if you were not burdened by the weariness of all those externally generated demands? Calm and content, that’s what you would be. Imagine if your mechanism of fulfillment was your own. It would become this priceless possession nobody could take away from you. It would become lever you could pull to transform your…

Once we learn to forgive ourselves and accept our own humanity, we can awake from the sleep of guilt and start using it as fuel. We can transform guilt into an emotion that fuels our growth. It starts by noticing the feeling and asking it what it wants from us. Is this feeling inviting me to connect with my moral compass and values as a person? Is this feeling…

Clemens, at the tail end of his pitching career, negotiated a contract where he only played in home games. That way, he could drive to work and not go on the road. No coping with changing time zones or climates, no dealing with the rigors of travel, and no working through the idiosyncrasies of other ballparks and their moronic, hateful fans. Houston or bust. This sounds like an extreme…