A good lesson from the 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest — By now we’ve all watched The Last Dance. At least once. If you haven’t yet, then I’m curious to know if the rock you live under is big or, you know, medium-sized. Is it comfortable under there? How do you sleep? What happens when it rains? What about spiders? But…

And why it’s the most important life skill we all need — “Always take away a lesson from every experience you have.” That’s what they say (side note: has anyone figured out who “they” are yet? No? Ok, me neither). I get the sentiment, though: No matter if you had a good experience or bad experience doing whatever you did, it’s only…

We all need it. We all can still do it. — It seems as if people assume we have all this time on our hands now. I mean, I guess a lot of us do, but a lot of us really don’t. Time that was usually spent on one thing is now being spent on four other things and honestly, that’s…

Raising a glass to a bumpy start — I wrote last year about fighting the tendency to start a new year with a clean slate. I stand by that. But apparently 2020 read that blog, didn’t like it, and has asked someone to hold its beer. …

He knew something about success that no one else did. — We all try to not take things for granted, I get that. The human race has been able to accomplish a lot of incredible things and sometimes those incredible things — although always incredible — start losing their perception of being incredible. You know what I mean? Yeah, that was…

Remember what got you here. — I recently returned from a long weekend in Nashville, TN where I caught up with some old friends from college. They both live in California now, so they made the journey out and I drove the four and a half hours to get down there. …

It had to be said — Yeah. There. I said it. Someone had to. I’m a parent, a business owner, and a lot of other things…and I’m saying that the mantra “always be hustling” is just plain stupid. For real. I get the hustle, and how it separates the great from the “just good,” but it’s…

Before you launch figuratively, do it literally. — I’m chalking it up to yet another thing I learned about work while not working. That list is getting kind of long and I don’t know what that means just yet. A few days ago, I launched a rocket. No, it’s not a metaphor for another business I started or…

Gunga Galunga — It’s cliche to say that it’s one of the all-time best movies, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. Sorry, but it’s kind of not even debatable at this point: Caddyshack is one of the all-time best movies. We’ve all quoted that movie about 2 million times. That number goes…