Christmas... That time of year when we gather, often with people we haven't seen in a year or more.  That time when so much joy can be experienced.  So much good can happen. And so much CHAOS!...

Ever have one of those questions that haunts you? The kind that you keep hearing over and over that causes you to start really pondering the answer.  You hear it enough that you know it is...

Who likes getting called out? Raise your hands high for those in the back.  I'll wait.  Anyone?  Bueller?  Couldn't resist that reference. Anyone? Right.  No one.  I don't either.  I don't like...

Houston... we have a problem. I'm so busy.  I am stressed. I think I'm sick. I'm depressed. My life is so disorganized. I need to get my weight under control.  I need to get control of my schedule. ...

I have failed... More times than I care to count.  I have failed as a father, as husband, as business owner, as dentist, as a writer, as a speaker, as a triathlete, as a friend, and countless other...

The ability to fly. Every single time.  That was my answer.  How would you answer the superpower question?  If you could have any superpower in the world, what would you choose? I always chose the...

How are you? Busy.  So Busy.  Yeah, tell me about it.  I am so busy too!  Sound familiar?  My guess is that it does.  Because busy has become the new fine.  Not that long ago, I remember the...

I don't know where you are today... I don't know where you are on the mountain of life.  Are you at the base of the mountain staring up thinking it looks way too high to climb? Is the stuff in your...

No one knew... Not a soul.  Not a single person.  Amy didn't know. My team at the office didn't know.  My mentor didn't know. I didn't share it with my inner circle, which was much smaller at the...

Four short years ago... There was no dream.  Just survival.  Moving from task to task and day to day in a gray, monochromatic fog.  There was no color.  There was very little excitement.  No...

Lying on the floor... In the server room.  In the basement of my dental office.  After the server had crashed.  Seriously?  Of all the times it could crash, why did it choose now? I was thirty...

3 years and two days ago... I had it all figured out.  Why?  Because I had had it.  I was done.  Torched.  Burned out.  Fried crispy.  I had experienced all that burnout had to offer and I made a...

We all learned it... Do you remember hearing this in school?  What to do if you are on fire... stop, drop, and roll.  While I am super thankful that I haven't had to use that strategy when it comes...

My coach calls it... Packing eight pounds of nuts in a four pound bag.  Sound familiar?  Or am I the only one that has seen a timeframe and shoved everything under the sun in that amount of time? ...

Backslide Verb.  To revert to a worse position.  Sound familiar?  Unfortunately, it has become all too familiar for me as of late. I was doing what I would consider a good job of managing my life,...

Quiet and Christmas... For many of us, those two words simply don't go together.  There is nothing quiet about the season.  The preparation.  The gift buying.  Cooking, cleaning, second-guessing,...

Take a step back if you will... Actually travel back in time to ponder a memory of receiving a great gift.  Maybe you were a little kid.  Maybe it was your last birthday.  Was it last Christmas? ...

Most of you have experienced at least one of these... Allow me to back up a little.  My story is one of bullying, striving, chasing, and burnout.  And those of you who have spent some time with me...