This one is a little vulnerable.

It's a mirror I didn't love looking into at first, and some of you won't either.

Prioritizing your partner's happiness above all else is a bad idea, for both of you.

"Your chances of dying over the next year are cut in half by joining one group."

An analysis of 148 studies concluded that social isolation exceeds obesity & physical inactivity as a mortality risk factor, & that prioritizing social connection was comparable to quitting smoking.

In the past two weeks, I've played eight rounds of golf with my youngest son.

Several of them were with the whole family, with almost daily trips to the range in between. I expect to play another five rounds this week, which is the last week before school starts. 

Yes, this is a flex post.

"I hate you, Dad," and "You're the worst dad ever" were two things said to me on an almost daily basis six months ago. His comments were in response to me finally choosing hard and uncomfortable over keeping the peace.

Let's Retire Retirement has been out for a year.

I'm proud of the book Sara Stibitz and I wrote. And it has me rethinking how impact works in 2026.

Have you ever considered that one reason your kids don't seem to enjoy spending time with you is that, in their eyes, you're living a boring, uninspired life?

You probably prepared for your last client meeting. You organized your thoughts. You defined the outcome you wanted.

When was the last time you did any of that before dinner with your kids?

When I hear about your goals, you almost always share tidy round numbers. $5M net this year. $100M in sales. Where do the numbers come from? Why not 3? Or 60? Most of you haven't actually thought about it. The number showed up dressed like ambition, and you've been chasing it ever since.

Most people think I'm a little crazy when I tell them I go to 25 concerts a year. I get it. But I won't apologize for it, especially after a 2018 study confirmed that attending live music regularly is associated with living up to nine years longer.

In his essay "The Tail End," Tim Urban showed us that by the time your kid graduates from high school, you've already used up 93% of the total in-person time you'll ever spend with them.

I shared this gut punch in my book. Unfortunately, it's also a generous version of the math.

The concept of retirement was established in the late 1800s, and 65 was chosen as the age to begin receiving benefits because that was roughly the age people were expected to die, but it’s still the de facto retirement age despite higher life expectancy. Why?

My father was 61 when he started showing signs of dementia. Over the next nine years, my family watched the disease slowly take him from us. That's the emotional reality of dementia. But there's a financial reality most families don't appreciate until they're living it.

I am a little delayed in selecting my word of the year for 2026. I've had the feeling for a while but couldn't come up with a name for it. Then I saw my friend share that her word for the year was “curate”, and like most of her ideas, it really landed for me.

The best person to get advice from is not a coach, speaker, or me, it's you! Rather, the best, most optimized version of you.

I’d like to invite you to pause and think about any regrets you may have from this past year and any potential regrets you may have a year from now if you continue on with business as usual. Instead of focusing on small goals, I want to challenge you to aim for significantly better outcomes in the important areas of your life.