Climbing is easier than what you are trying to accomplish in your life every day. Think I’m crazy? I honestly believe this for several reasons. Number one is that climbing demands a unique clarity of purpose and an outright declaration of focus. In the mountains, you must Declare a Current Climb or you will get … Read more
“Once you finally get that summit, that’s it then, right?” I was shocked! This simple question from an audience member revealed a major gap in my content and message until that point. How had he missed that the summits never end? (Well, at least until we summit our last summit of life, which of course … Read more
Celebrating our achievements is a crucial key to one’s success. I believe we “summit” more often than we realize in our lives. Some days, it’s all a grind. The climbing never stops, or perhaps despite our best efforts and all the energy we have already invested, conditions erode our spirit and we feel like we … Read more
A question I often get is: “What is the one thing you have seen that has made the biggest impact for people?” When this question comes up, people are really asking about how to have a greater impact in their work, their professional life, their personal life, or even climbing mountains. People want to know … Read more
Do you ever have a day when you get home and you say to yourself, “Man this day rocked. I really had a good day. I got all of these things done I wanted to do and I had some meaningful interactions.” Let’s call that Scenario A. Or, do you ever have the opposite happen? … Read more
In my last post, Get On Belay!, I wrote about the importance of the belay process in climbing. When executed consistently in your day-to-day life, the On Belay lesson will have a dramatic impact on your results. I invite you to get into action with the Belay principle in just five minutes a day, leveraging three simple steps. Every day … Read more
In climbing, the belay process is absolutely critical. It is the difference between life and death, safe passage to the summit and utter disaster. It is the foremost element of trust in a climbing partner; if you have a shadow of doubt about your belayer, it undermines every thought and move you make in The … Read more
It was June 9th, 2015, in Denver, Colorado. After a two-day meeting as part of a strategic advisory board for an association, I sat down with my friend Vance Brown, co-founder and CEO of Cherwell Software, who was also attending. In the sunshine of the Colorado mountains, we started working on ideas regarding how we … Read more
Which of these two scenarios describe you? Are you feeling what I call emotional gravity? That is the scenario when life is just weighing you down. Maybe things aren’t going your way or you just don’t feel like you have your mojo. Perhaps you’re not as productive as you once were, or you’re not as … Read more
