Recently I interviewed Jozef Frucek from Fighting Monkey on a podcast*. One of the things he talks about is bringing someone into a group setting in his workshops and “opening up the space”: “OK, you are into “movement,” let’s see you move.” No constraints, no starting point, just go. Obviously, for most of us, we’d...

You can’t. You can automate your emails, your blogs, your client on boarding processes… You can use social media to keep up with friends and family… You can even send a video of your dog to a friend in a message. But you still aren’t coming close to the emotional effort that is required (and...

When I was young, growing up I did a lot of skateboarding. “Skate or die” basically. We would practice a trick, over and over… and over. Eventually kinda getting it. I went in two contests I think, but was never very good. I was too hit or miss. We had a friend though, Nick Lister....

I know a guy who was right there at the beginning of ultralight sailboat design. When they started creating fast, fiberglass boats instead of heavy, lagging timber hulls. He would literally “shape” the boat hulls by hand, by sight. He was a prototyper. He also designed the original O’Neill logo  designed the original O’Neill logo....

This weekend is about innovation. To innovate, is to create. And to create, we like a few ingredients – a certain environment. A big part of this is the crew, cohort, or collective – the people involved, “the meeting of the minds.” On Saturday, We have a one day sprint/marathon on Energy Generation and Business...

Resistance is born from seriousness. When we stall on our project, when we hold back on calling that person, when we avoid showing up the way we could, we do so ultimately because of fear. There might be a lot of other ways of describing this fear – I’m too tired, I got distracted, I...

So your car maybe can go 180km/hr… Maybe 200.. So 200 is maybe a little shaky, but that’s the potential. But to go from 100 to 200*, you need to push the accelerator down. The extra 100km/hr doesn’t deliver itself. We need to engage in order to access that potential. Well, it is kind of...

“Hey, want to go out for dinner on Wednesday?” “That sounds fun! Let me get back to you…” Sure. Sometimes we need a little time. But for a lot of people, this continually blows out. You see, we can choose to make a decision. And, we can choose to not make a decision. In the...