What does living a #NoMatterWhat life look like? It’s a big question we’ve been asking ourselves and others to get to the heart of what really makes a difference for people. Of course, there are those big goals and highlight reels we want to share when we reach them… but more importantly, what does the day to day look like that got you there?

Survival of the fittest! An evolutionary truism for animals, businesses and even each of us. But instead of the binary (and somewhat ominous) option to survive or not… There's more to the book of evolution that we can take a page from if we want to truly evolve ourselves….

Perseus famously cut off the head of the snake-haired demon, Medusa, while cleverly avoiding the Gorgon’s direct gaze that turned all who looked into stone. It’s a Greek myth many of us have heard, but how can we use this approach to vanquish what stands in our way?

If you want results, you have to commit. Even more important if you’re a leader (or want to be a leader). There just aren’t any ifs, ands or buts about it. When you commit in a way where there’s no going back, we call it…

New year. New goals. New opportunities. Welcome to 2022. What separates the high-achievers that actually reach what they strive for from those that don’t? Even in the face of assuredly new challenges, limits and obstacles…

“I have enough discomfort in my life! Whenever I introduce the concept of ‘Hunting Discomfort’ there is always someone who initially bristles at the concept and insists they don’t have to hunt discomfort, they’re already surrounded by it, thank you very much! And…

The last month of the year is almost upon us. Even without a calendar, I can tell we’re pushing into December from all the motivational end-of-year rally cries from companies and influencers. Can’t you? “Make the final push!”, “Keep going!”, “Don’t give up!”. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but…

“Grateful” and “Gratitude” seem to be a buzzwords this time of year, at least in the U.S. with Thanksgiving approaching. As popular as it is to say, “I’m grateful for…” it doesn’t always…

Challenges aren’t merely challenges, however much they might seem that way. And problems aren’t merely problems, even if they present themselves as such. There are stages that challenges or problems go through, evolving each step of the way. And as they evolve, there’s a way to discern the best type of action to deal with them to get the best result….

You might be shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to the innovation, positive change and even the growth you’re looking for. By that I mean, you may be making those results you’re looking for even more difficult to achieve. Results of…

Did you ever wonder why the stories of George Lucas and Stanley Kubrick are so captivating? Or why Bob Dylan’s music is so engaging?

Emotional, physical and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress is better known as burnout. 75% of workers have experienced it and 67% of people think it has worsened over the last 20 months. If you’re not…

“It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves,” Sir Edmond Hillary famously said after the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953. I got thinking about…

The highest skydive “drop zone” in the world is on Mt. Everest; my friend and colleague Mike Sarraille is about to make an attempt at it to honor Extortion 17. I want us all to go along for the ride (virtually anyway)…

I wear a lot of black. Maybe you’ve noticed all our gear is in black and it’s a major branding theme; it’s not a mistake. Don’t worry, this isn’t the next fashion blog…

We’re literally in the middle of the Amazon Jungle. No cell phones, no restaurants, no emergency services. Just a small camp surrounded by forest as dense as you can possibly imagine and all the countless creatures that live in it. I’m with the Shipibo people, an ancient indigenous group in the Amazon Rainforest, primarily in Peru…

You could win the lottery. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. And there’s always crypto. It seems like it’s easy to achieve success, at least the financial kind. And happiness is an inside job, right? Why then, would you need to hunt discomfort? Those ways seem much more palatable. You’re right. There might be…

Breakthroughs are often seen as the result of small iterations, consistent effort, and little steps forward. After-all, it’s usually hard, time consuming and maybe even expensive, to fight the status quo of your company culture to change and/or deal with existing market conditions and/or challenges that come up every day.

Some things can’t be changed. They’ve either already happened or they’re immovable, immutable things. Maybe there’s something about yourself, your situation or your history that you’re convinced makes your true aspiration a seeming impossibility. And when challenges look unsolvable, that probably stops you from taking steps towards them, right?

A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in the nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled.