I’m currently reading a great book called Wild Success by Kevin Vallely and Amy posey.  If you have an adventuress spirit, highly recommend. Summarizing an anecdote below and exercise from the book called my attention this week.  Prior to becoming one of the best ocean water rowers in the world, Roz Savage worked for a corporation for 15 years, when she answered this question. What will people say when you die? She wrote down two outcomes. The first one would be the obituary she wanted to have.  The second one was what she would have if she just kept doing what she was doing.  You can take an example from this parable.  There are three bricklayers in a yard and someone asks each of them what they are doing. The first, answers, I am laying brick. The second answer, I am building a church. The third answer I am building the house of God. One has a Job, one a career, and the third has a calling, his purpose.  I encourage you to take on the exercise when …

Crisis Creates Opportunity You have 40% more left in the tank. Right now. You Do. Trust Me. Science proves it as well! In 2013, I ran 45 miles over and through lava fields, a torrential downpour and along the North Atlantic Ocean to finish a 160-mile Ultra Marathon. After running 4 marathons back to back the previous 4 days, I was battered and bruised. My ankle was swollen and my spirits were down. How did I make it through? 1. Taking it one step at a time, literally. 2. Having the support of amazing tent mates who pushed me up into that first step. 3. Using a mantra (Strong, Relaxed & Grateful), that I must have said 10,000 times 4. Believing I had another gear because I had seen it in others. These are challenging times. I feel the weight of the moment. We all do. Trust me, you have that next year. Guess what, there is another gear beyond that one too. Once you find it, it never goes away. Like driving a stick shift, …

Crisis Creates Opportunity At this time, it’s very clear, people are watching and leadership matters. People will remember what you did when it matters most. Remember, your brand is built by people watching not what you say, but what you do. It’s built but what people are saying about you when you are not in the room. Character is built in these moments.   How would someone you really admire, recommend you respond in crisis? Follow that advice. What you do today and everyday matters. No matter if you lead other people or lead yourself. You influence so many people around you.   Get moving, get going. What is your potential at this moment? Defeating Average. Colin

If he can do it I can do it  He showed up every day, whether he felt good or not. In 1980, when I was six years old, a young man named Terry Fox who had his leg amputated due to cancer captivated a nation. He was a regular guy who did something extraordinary. He was a young and vibrant 18-year-old University student in Canada. While recovering in the hospital he saw the impact cancer had on other young kids.   He said “coach, I didn’t understand cancer affects young people and they are giving up. They are not trying. While I was there, kids my age and younger, passed away. What can I do to give these people hope to keep fighting?” He asked himself “what can I do with one leg?” Powerful Question Terry heard about a man who ran the NYC marathon with one leg and that was the spark. Famously he said, “If he can do it I can do it.”  He created the Marathon of Hope and trained to run near a marathon …