Contribution Is The Key
Recently I was teaching a webinar for our Radical Brilliance One Year Program. These are a group of professional coaches who have been working together for close to a [...]
The Golden Secret to Having Original Ideas
I am writing this little love letter to you from a windswept forlorn beach town on the north shores of New Jersey. I traveled across the country from my [...]
The Extraordinary Potential of Failure and Regret
I had the exquisite pleasure of having dinner the other night with my old friend Mark Thornton. We have known each other since the 90’s. We have developed the [...]
For Your Next Great Idea, Take a Creation Vacation
The following is an excerpt from my latest book, Radical Brilliance. Enjoy! The creation vacation is a wonderful way to initiate a project. In my experience, it is the [...]
How A Busy Hedge-Fund Manager Clarified His Vision With Radical Brilliance Coaching
Carl was a banker, working in New York, when he asked me to coach him. He was working for a hedge fund, managing a very large portfolio designed to [...]
Five Tips to Have the Best Holidays Ever with your Parents
Listen to this post as an audio here Right click or control click to download, and select "save link as" I made a video a couple [...]
How To Increase Your Energy
As we get into the winter months, many of my coaching clients — and students in our one year program — complain about low energy. This is not so [...]
Cruisin’ In Nice and Slow
For more than a year now I have been a member of a co-coaching group called ACT (Action Coaching Teams). It is really great, and I recommend it. ACT [...]
The (Essential) Neurochemical Path to Burnout and Breakdown
The longer you stay a state of productivity, the longer you find yourself faced with impossible choices, which is otherwise known as the “double bind.” Daniel Schmachtenberger, founder of Neurohacker, explains: [...]
Forgive Yourself
The Brilliance Cycle, described in my new book Radical Brilliance, describes four movements, where the seed of each germinates in the blossoming of the previous phase. It forms a [...]