by John Macdonald | May 24, 2021 | Failure, Mindset
And Why the “Doing Your Best is Always Enough” Myth Might Be Killing Your Success The toxic positivity movement, growing over recent years from parents to tee-ball coaches to life coaches, will tell you otherwise. The movement will tell you...
by John Macdonald | Mar 17, 2021 | Leadership, Mindset
Being The Change You Wish to See You want to be on the hook. We need you on the hook. Only those on the hook make the difference, make a change, make an impact. And when a group of people on the hook come together, the sky is the limit. A group of people on the...
by John Macdonald | Mar 10, 2021 | Mindset, Personal Investment
A Year Unlike Any Other (Or Was It?) One year ago, we received the agonizing phone call from our daughter, Maddie, that we wouldn’t be traveling to the University of Michigan that weekend. Gymnastics season was officially over. The last three meets of her senior...
by John Macdonald | Jan 21, 2021 | Mindset
Passion in Your Work is a Choice, Not a Calling “Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, ‘Don’t follow your passion, but always bring it with you.’”- Mike Rowe, Dirty Jobs Mike’s right. ...
by John Macdonald | Nov 18, 2020 | Business, Mindset
And More Importantly Taught Me About Myself That’s right. At 50 years old, by learning more about marketing, I learned quite a bit about myself, and in some ways, I’m not at all who I thought I was. I’m an engineer and software developer. I’m a...
by John Macdonald | Jun 22, 2020 | Action, Activity, Mindset
The Science of Saying Yes and the Art of Saying No You and I have a yes/no problem. Specifically, we’re not saying one of them enough, or to the right thing, or at the right time. This group over here says we’re supposed to say “Yes” more....
