How to Challenge the Status Quo and Drive Growth Through Innovation
New ideas can be tough to swallow, and change can be hard to accept. But we can’t grow without unless we challenge the status quo. I recently heard a story about researchers who put five monkeys in a room with a ladder. At the top of the ladder was a bunch of bananas,...
How to Create Clarity and Achieve Your Goals: 6 Steps to Move from Vague Ideas to Meaningful Action
I just got back from a fundraising conference last week. If you’ve ever been to a big professional conference, you can probably picture the exhibit hall. It’s a seemingly endless maze of booths filled with shiny, happy people. They greet you by your first name as you...
Take the Swing: How Action Beats Fear When Pursuing Big Goals
Pursuing big goals is never easy but sometimes we like to make it even harder. Here’s what I mean. I can’t remember where I heard this the other day—maybe at a conference I was attending or from someone online. They were talking about baseball great Babe Ruth, who was...
Why Success Isn’t Always Satisfying: What Scottie Scheffler Gets Right About Success vs Fulfillment
“This is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from a sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from the deepest places of your heart.” These powerful words came from a Scottie Scheffler interview offering a rare glimpse at how even top-level professional...