Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #110 — Comfort makes for magic!The chance to be myself. Though that's what I longed for, I held back so much of who I was, who I am, for SOOO many years. I was afraid of being judged, or misunderstood, or mischaracterized, or rejected. All it took to open…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #109 Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #109 — Perspective check!Challenging times come in two flavors: chronic and acute. What's happening now, the upheaval due to COVID-19, is definitely acute. The change and the impact have been intense, far-reaching, and quick. But the external conditions, as real as they…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – 𝙀𝙥 #108 — 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜.For the first two decades of my professional life, my job was to have the answer. And if I didn't know the answer, I was expected to figure it out (or make it up). That means that the asset for which I was rewarded was, effectively,…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #107 — Authenticity is Countercultural.Our world is hungry for authenticity. We seek it in our friends, we seek it in our partners, we seek it in our leaders. And when we feel it missing, the hunger pangs can become unbearable. Yet despite that hunger, the homogenizing cultural forces that…
@Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #106 — Life looks fabulous on facebook.In 2005, my company had just celebrated its 10th anniversary. I'd been married for 13 years to a woman I'd loved since we were pre-teens. We had the big house, three kids in private school, two dogs. And everything looked fantastic … on…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #105 — Spoiler alert: We are all equal in death.Roman poet Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis, known in English as "Juvenal," drove this message home simply over 19 centuries ago:“The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was.”Ryan Holliday recently captured it quite simply: "[Death] makes…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #104 — It takes all three.Many years ago I had a client whose hobby was woodworking with a particular passion for building furniture. One specific life-lesson he took away from his hobby was that a three-legged stool never wobbles. That reminds me of another truth shared by Wallace D…
@Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #103 — It actually IS all about you! *** SOUND SATRTS AFTER 8 MINUTES! ***@Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #103 — It actually IS all about you! This week Elaine and I are in Santa Fe working on ourselves and our businesses. We spent a day exploring Presence…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #102 — Be Intentional About Your Attention.Many years ago a friend in the investment industry complained that every time the market shifts more that 1% he spent the rest of the day talking a number of his clients off the ledge. It wasn't the time required that bothered him….
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #101 — Doing your work is it's own reward. Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #101 — Doing your work is it's own reward.Yes, you're going to be unappreciated. You'll be challenged and sabotaged. You'll encounter epic failures. Your expectations will be unmet. And you will lose.Given that, how…
