Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #036 – Trust yourself?How many of us have, at some time or another, chosen to imitate or model our behavior after someone else? I know I have. And every time I have, it's been a disaster. And the last one cost me dearly. On the bright side, the learning…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #035 – Clean your lens.After spending a day in Santa Barbra with my coach this past Sunday, I am clearer than ever on two things: (1) I work better near water, and (2) my thoughts shape my reality.I have always been clear that my perspective is the lens through…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #034 – "Please sir, I'd like some more."Like Oliver Twist, I'd like more. Don't you? What currencies do you want MORE of? Time? Energy? Impact? Income? Travel? Wine? Alone time? Adventure?For every one of your currencies, the key questions to answer are: What must you become in order to…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #033 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #033 – White-knuckles vs open hand …I once heard that "suffering begins when expectation diverges from reality." Holding onto an attachment to a *specific* outcome almost guarantees suffering. It certainly increases the chance that you'll miss the beauty and power and reward in…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #032 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #032 – I won't get fooled again!My most effective form of sabotage is fooling myself. And that "skill" has two forms: fantasy and denial. Søren Kierkegaard captured the distinction perfectly: "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to BELIEVE what isn’t…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK Ep #031 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #031 – Step Up!Sometimes we are called upon to rise to the occasion, to muscle through, to put on a brave face, to suit up & show up. After all, the show must go on, right? And, hopefully, we rise to more that that….
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep -#030 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #030 – Your inner child knows the truth.A firefighter? A doctor? An astronaut? President? What did you want to be before the world sold you the lie that anything is possible?When I was 5, I wanted to be Speed Racer! Am I foiling…
Mindset Mondays w/ DTK – Ep #029 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #029 – Be Bold … Begin!There is a dusty file cabinet in my office filled with years of amazing ideas – and there sits all of that brilliance, to this day, unexecuted.So many plans, so many ideas, so many dreams died while…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #028 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #028 – It's time! But for what?It seems like a simple question: "What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"What's your answer? Move to a new city? Run a marathon? Climb a mountain? Get up on stage? Propose? Come out?…
Mindset Mondays w/DTK – Ep #020 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #027 – Nothing more, nothing less.In elementary school, I believed was invincible, indestructible. A few losing battles with gravity (along with a few emergency room visits) recalibrated that belief. That dose of reality left me with a personal understanding of the truism from…
