• I Made a Mistake

    I Made a Mistake

    For the past 23 years, I’ve been a coach in the health, fitness, and sports performance fields. For 13 of those years, I owned my own gym – Coaching For Glory.  For 5 years, I’ve run a company that teaches people how to coach – The Refined Art of Coaching. And yet, just last month,…

  • Science Fair Lessons, Part 1:

    Science Fair Lessons, Part 1:

    I spent a lot of time at the skating rink growing up. That eventually led to me joining a speed skating team, something I’d long dreamed of doing.  In preparing us for any race or meet we had, my coach Sam Johnson would always repeat the phrase “Skate through the line.”  Most adults know what…

  • My Dad Struck Out Pete Rose in the 1980 World Series

    My Dad Struck Out Pete Rose in the 1980 World Series

    On three straight fastballs. If that’s crazy to read, think about how crazy it is for me to write. What’s stranger is that I didn’t even know that until sometime in my teenage years, around high school.  Even now, more than thirty years after finding out, I know the broad brush strokes…the highlights, but not…

  • 100 Days

    100 Days

    As of today, September 22nd, there are exactly 100 days until this year is over. What can you do with 100 days?  There’s nothing particularly special about 100 days, but then again there is something about a nice round number like that.  This time of year is usually when business owners put together their annual…

  • Success Framework

    Success Framework

    While onboarding a new client recently, we put the finishing touches on his success framework, which helps define what actions need to be taken in order for him to meet his goal.  It’s the bridge that helps him get from where he is to where he wants to be.  I wanted to share the general…

  • Margin

    Margin

    When I first opened my gym, I remember that as we grew, and demand for session times went up, I was enthusiastic about shoe-horning as many things back to back as I possibly could. Ditto for when I started taking clients at Two-Brain. I set up my calendar with wide-open, reckless abandon and couldn’t wait…

  • All About Asheville – Part 2, What to Do

    All About Asheville – Part 2, What to Do

    Asheville sits in the heart of the Blue Ridge mountains with plenty to do. This isn’t an exhaustive list by any means, but these are all things we’ve done with the whole family over the years – with new borns and big kids alike. Fun for the whole family, if you will. First on the…

  • Values and Priorities

    Values and Priorities

    After my recent post, ‘Sacrificing My Family At the Altar of My Business,’ I had folks reach out for a few different reasons, one of which was to ask questions about the values and priorities piece in there. Specifically: Before we get to that, I do want to highlight the importance of establishing your values…

  • All About Asheville – Part 1, Where to Stay

    All About Asheville – Part 1, Where to Stay

    In 2009, after two trips to Vegas (once for our honeymoon and one more for our anniversary), Mandy and I were looking for somewhere different to go. She wanted to go somewhere tropical, but I didn’t. I wanted to go somewhere with snow, but she didn’t. This is partly how we decided on Vegas for…

  • Sacrificing My Family at the Altar of My Business

    Sacrificing My Family at the Altar of My Business

    Just the other night, Mandy and I were doing a favorite parenting past-time activity – fondly looking back through photos from when the kids were much younger. Now I don’t claim to have the greatest memory, but a few caught my eye because I didn’t recall anything about a succession of photos from a few…