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Beyond Either/Or: How Holding Tension Creates Transformation
The tyranny of either/or follows us everywhere. Through career pivots, relationship crossroads, and those 2 a.m. moments when we wonder if the life we’re living is still the one we meant to live.
But what if the most meaningful breakthroughs don’t come from choosing sides at all?
The Quiet Abdication: On Guilt, Sovereignty, and the Slow Return of Authorship
Many leaders mistake guilt for goodness. This essay explores how we hand over authorship of our lives—and how reclaiming it becomes the foundation for significance.
When Focus Becomes a Standard: The Hidden Key to Living with Intention
When focus becomes a standard, life shifts from scattered attention to intentional presence. Learn how standards—not productivity hacks—shape the person you’re becoming.
The Gift of Nothingness
In the dance of leadership, the moments of stillness can feel like a void, but what if we reimagined this nothingness as fertile ground for renewal rather than a harbinger of failure? It’s in these quiet interludes that we can gather our thoughts and rediscover our purpose, allowing the pressures of constant output to dissolve. Rather than seeing the blank page as a threat, let it be a canvas for creativity, an invitation to reflect deeply and cultivate ideas that resonate with our truest selves. Embracing these pauses nurtures resilience, transforming what once felt like an absence into a powerful opportunity for insight and growth, reminding us that even in silence, we are preparing for the next great leap forward.
Why Successful Leaders Are Secretly Dying Inside (And How to Wake Up)
Aliveness is what wakes us up from autopilot.
You remember when the work felt electric. When every project sparked something new. That aliveness brought the recognition, the awards, the kind of success most people dream about.
But then, slowly, what once felt alive became… routine. The systems that served you started running you. Autopilot isn’t the enemy—there’s a time and place to just do. But when autopilot becomes the only mode, success turns beige.
The Burden and the Gift of Being Skilled
When Being Good at Something Becomes a Role You Didn’t Mean to Keep
There’s a particular weight that comes with being highly skilled. Not just capable—but trusted, leaned on, counted on. You do something well—maybe better than anyone else in the room—and over time, it becomes expected. Natural. Automatic. You show up, and without even offering, you’re tapped.
When the Metrics Don’t Fit
This post is an excerpt from The Significance Project. If this resonates with you, I’d love for you to be part of the community.. You can sign up here.Why ambitious visionary leaders need a different kind of measurement at this stage of growth.There’s a rhythm many...
A Reflection on the Tension Between Greatness and Safety
“A new world calls across the sky. A new world whispers in the shadows. Time to fly.” —from Songs for a New World
The Collaboration
This post is an excerpt from The Significance Project. If this resonates with you, I’d love for you to be part of the community.. You can sign up here.When Success and Significance build something real—together. Part 5: There comes a point in a high-achieving life...
Significance Doesn’t Perform, It Provides
This post is an excerpt from The Significance Project. If this resonates with you, I’d love for you to be part of the community.. You can sign up here.A new kind of presence for a new kind of chapter.Part 4: Let’s be honest: Success was always easier to measure. It...
When Success and Significance Become Co-Creators
So far, we’ve named the two siblings: Success—the magnetic, outcome-driven, high-achieving force who built the world you live in.
And Significance—the quieter, inward-facing part of you who’s now asking deeper questions about meaning, alignment, and legacy.
When Success Gets Bored
This post is an excerpt from The Significance Project. If this resonates with you, I’d love for you to be part of the community.. You can sign up here.The touch point between what used to matter and what matters now.Part 2:Let me start with a quick disclaimer: I’m...
