Men Want It All Too: Work And Family
“I wanted to be able to change diapers.” That’s what Tim Donohue told me when I asked him about the life-altering choices he’d made regarding the elusive work/life balance. We had both just read the...
View ArticleBoomer Esiason: NFL Great Turned Life Insurance Advocate
“Today is your day to go out into the world. You’re going to be great!” This affirmation is one of a precious few memories that National Football League great, Boomer Esiason, can vividly recall...
View ArticleRevolutionary Retail: Test-Driving Warby Parker And Dollar Shave Club
Eyeglasses and razors are two notoriously high-margin personal commodities for which we’ve been overpaying for decades, but two companies have declared war on these monopolistic product lines. Using...
View Article7 Steps To Creating The Best Personal Task Management System With Trello
I have tried more productivity systems and tools than could possibly be productive. Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits are deservedly legendary, and I’m better for every habit I’m able to employ. David Allen’s...
View Article5 Things The Most Successful People Do In The Bathroom
Please don’t feel misled or manipulated by this parody title—I’d have clicked on it too. But before you read another three-to-three-hundred bullet points on how you can be more successful, please...
View Article20 Lessons We Can Learn From 20-Year-Olds
It’s become enormously popular to publicly lecture 20-somethings. I’m not a 20-something, but my regular interaction with the Millennial generation as a college instructor leads me to conclude that we...
View ArticleTop 5 Posts of 2013
One of the great blessings of my career—heck, my life—is the opportunity I’ve had to communicate through the written word. Thank YOU for reading my work. In 2011, my bucket list daydream of having a...
View ArticleIn 2014, Accomplish More By Doing Less
Instead of bullying yourself into adopting new practices that are designed to overhaul your life for the better in 2014, consider finding the path to success by simply doing less. The arctic blast of...
View ArticleDon’t Balance Money And Life, Integrate Them
We got the subtitle of my last book wrong. It reads, “Balancing Money and Life.” And while the book is still substantively solid and its aging content remains mostly relevant, the subtitle, I now...
View ArticleA 4-Step Process to Integrating Money and Life
Once you’ve abandoned the pursuit of balancing money and life in favor of integrating the two, the question still remains: Now what? How the heck do I better integrate money and life? Like most...
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