Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #165 — Wise Elder OR merely older? Aging makes no promise save an increasing birthday cake fire hazard. One more candle for one more trip around the sun. Age marches on regardless of our desire. But knowledge, wisdom, serenity, peace-of-mind? Age gives no guarantee of their progression. All progress…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #161 — Learn, Break, Serve! I live a dichotomy … As a life-long learner and mastery-junky I am constantly diving in and always willing to dive deep. I’m even prone to over-YESing leading to some seriously overloaded stretches on my calendar (ask me about 2016!). I even chose to…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #137 — Breathe. “That’s not right!” That”s literally what I said when I heard it (I’m glad my mic was muted). But I already knew better. My friend Matt Chavlovich — a former pro athlete and recovering overachiever — was sharing what he had learned over a lifetime of…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #116 — The journey makes the outcome all the richer.In 7th grade, my aunt gave me a framed Gollum quote (from The Hobbit) that remained on my wall through graduation: "It is precious to me though I buy it with great pain." It got me through some gnarly emotional…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #113 — To be you, let you go.Once upon a time I was young, I was single, and I had black hair. OK … that was a long time ago. But how different would my life be if I still approached the world as I once was.Don't get me…
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 #094 — "May I be I" … It's easy to be what is expected. Well, actually, it's soul crushing. And I know you get that. We've all had times in our lives where we've tried to be who we should be or must be or need to be or…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #061 — Keep learning to slow aging!Over the years I've heard people attribute the end of a partnership – in marriage or in business – to "we just grew apart." From my experience, that's not true. People don't grow apart. One person outgrows the other.People tend to fall into…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #058 – Comfort zones are everywhere!And the most common comfort zone, the one that requires fierce intention and consistent effort to break free of, is the vacuum chamber we all-too-often create by surrounding ourselves with people who always agree with us. Frank A. Clark drove this point home nearly…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #056 – Escaping is cheating.Upon first reading this quote by Thomas Carlyle, I was torn:"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."On the surface, the conversation would be about the things we miss out on while we are dealing with something…
