"You think you're the only superhero in the world?

Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe.

You just don't know it yet."

- Nick Fury – Iron Man 2

I have spent a lot of time, months really, trying to convince you to become the best version of yourself. I hope you...

“My whole plan is to get recharged, redirected, and rested…

I’ve got to figure out where all this passion, energy, and inspiration goes. I don’t want it to be on a football field. 

I’m excited to see where this takes me.”

- Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson shocked the college...

“I didn't know I was broken

'til I wanted to change,
I wanna get better.

Better, better, better,
I wanna get better”

 - Bleachers – I Wanna Get Better

I’m starting to think that I should write a self-help book. A quick online search indicates that there is a massive market...

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. 

In that space is our power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

- Victor Frankl

Victor Frankl lived an amazing life, and his story should probably be the subject of its own message. In a...

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince

What do you care most about? I spend nearly every work day meeting with people who are interested in becoming a better version of themselves, and...

“You gotta keep livin’ man. L-I-V-I-N”

- Wooderson – Dazed and Confused

Wooderson, the iconic, scene stealing character played by Matthew McConaughey in the classic coming-of-age film, Dazed and Confused, existed in a state of perpetual (though likely chemically-induced)...

Hermes:  Course, there is another way, but I ain't supposed to say it.
Orpheus: Another way?
Hermes:  Yeah, around the back. But that ain't easy walkin', Jack.

It ain't for the sensitive of soul, so...You really wanna go?

Orpheus: With all my heart.

Hermes:  With all your...

“You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world”

- The Beatles, Revolution

Written by John Lennon and released as the B-side to Hey Jude in 1968, the lyrics to Revolution were inspired by political protests, expressing sympathy with the need...

“What is honored in a country will be cultivated there”

-Plato, The Republic

In his book The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner examines clusters of genius throughout history. It’s a fascinating read that uses Plato’s quote as a central theme and posits that locations that...

“Are you ready for some football?”

- Hank Williams, Jr.

Every once in a while I write an email that really resonates, and based on the comments I received the past two weeks, THIS email about mentors was one of them. Many readers even were kind enough to say that I was o...