As I sit down to write today’s post, I am fondly remembering the experience I had last night watching my son play baseball. To be completely honest, it took some convincing for me to consider letting him play baseball. I was not looking forward to Little League at all, but as she always wisely does, Rachel convinced me that it would be a good idea…
Burning The Midnight Oil
Last week I had the pleasure of going to Miami to have a week-long strategic planning session with one of my favorite clients. We had meetings from 9 am to 6 pm each day and accomplished a lot of important planning and work for the upcoming 12 months. I always love being face to face with clients and helping them solve the problems that really…
Picking Dandelions in The Outfield
There is one job that I hold in life that trumps all other jobs, and that is fatherhood. It’s something that I’ve dreamed about since being nine years old, and the experience has not disappointed me at all. I think what is interesting about it is that the universe let me practice raising sons when it gave me the gift of raising my younger brothers….
Slow Down to Speed up (the tale of two stallions)
I remember the first time my grandfather told me this story I didn’t fully understand it. Now I when I hear it, it makes me chuckle, and it’s one of my favorite memories that I have of him. My grandfather didn’t finish the third grade and struggled to read or write very well, but he never let that hold him back. He founded a construction…
The Magic Power of Puppies, Routines and L.W.M.A.P.O.W.S.
You’re probably wondering “what the hell is L.W.M.A.P.O.W.S. Gabe!?” I’m going to tell you because it’s pretty magical. This morning I woke up excited at 3 am. It’s Saturday morning, a day where I have traditionally slept late in past years. This uncontrollable excitement has been happening more and more over the past 4-6 weeks. Today I want to share with you why I believe…
Can I Help You?
As I was walking down the aisle of the bookstore last month, a friendly older man walked up to my son and me and asked: “Can I can help you find anything?” What seemed like a simple common occurrence isn’t that mundane when you dig into it more deeply. Often when we’re asked that questions we say “no thanks, I’m good,” but in reality, we…
Extreme Ownership
If entrepreneurship were easy, then everyone would be a millionaire. It’s not easy because to find success as an entrepreneur you have to take total and extreme ownership. You can’t blame others. You can’t blame your past. You can’t blame your lousy mindset. You have to take total and extreme ownership of where you are and what you’ve got. You have to take to heart…
Tattoos, Synchronicity and The Rhythm of Life
Do you believe there is a natural order in the universe? I recently read an incredible story about the Dutch physicist who in 1665 was lying sick in bed and watched two pendulum clocks synchronize their pendulums over time. In a book I just finished titled Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza he mentioned, and that’s how I discovered it. There are some scientific explanations for…
What Elton John and Tech N9ne Can Teach You About Creativity And Business
In case you didn’t already know, I’m a rabid music fan. I listen to hundreds of hours of music every single week. This morning I was listening to one of my all-time favorite shows on Beats 1 called Rocket Hour. It’s one of the shows that I absolutely love. Elton is someone I’ve listened to for years and today’s episode reminded me of why I…
The $50,000 Book I Just Read
This morning I just finished reading a great book by Ryan Levesque called Choose. It reminded me of a saying of mine that I created a few years back, and it goes like this: “Every book I read makes me $50,000.” I was getting ready to speak at a small marketing conference, and someone asked me to recommend my favorite books. I ended up writing…