My long-time editor will retire from editing my blog in two weeks. I want to take a moment to discuss what it means for people to believe in your message and you. I also want to thank you to a stranger who became a friend and made me a better writer and storyteller over our seven-plus years working together.

Sometimes, the light bulb goes off, and you realize you understand who you are in greater depth in real-time. I had one of those moments this past week.

I return to my roots this Sunday, writing about emotions and how we should linger in our feelings long enough to understand what they communicate.

Leadership is tricky and we make it a lot harder when we lose focus on the whole point of leading. I do my best not to, by following two rules I was given by Theresa Jones as a young professional. It’s pretty on character for me to still think frontline work leadership is the way to go, my advice is more leaders should follow that model.

if you only conduct yourself to pursuit of leadership roles, you over looks the work it takes to be a good leader. And those type of leaders are making the workpalce harder to navigate.

The Issues facing us and complex and have great depth, yet for some reason we think quick social media posts are the medium to find understanding these issues. I know first hand they are not!

We need to figure out a way to linger in life’s good moments longer. We always rush to the next and it has never made sense to me to move so quick through the good moments. Maybe they wouldn’t feel so little and so few if we did.

How having two imaginary friends as a young kid running around in his coutnry backyard shaped how I interact with with world? Well I can tell you one thing, I rarely look at a problem they way others do.