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“Do you know how proud of you I am?” With those words, something changed. The Backstory I have been doing some informal coaching for a friend of mine that is struggling with some [...]

What if you were to start off today with the mindset that this Monday was going to be the start of the best week ever? Do you think your attitude would be at all affected? Would it be your best [...]

Alignment Alignment is one of those topics that most of us are spending very little time considering but probably should if we want to have more satisfying lives and careers. For instance, when [...]

The Courage Was In The Clicking So as many of you know, I created a new program called The Virtual Ripple Coaching Program. I spent the better part of last summer developing it, iterating it and [...]

Are you stuck in the exact same position you were in last year? Maybe you started the year off with big goals and aspirations and now as we enter the 4th quarter of yet another year, no progress [...]

Hard to believe this post was originally published in February 2008 when my now, high school freshman, was still in pre-k. Crazy how time flies! I revisit this because I just booked a speaking [...]

I am often my own worst enemy. I bet you are the same. Whether it’s evaluating how I delivered a training, gave a keynote speech or how I look in a video or picture, I have this tendency to [...]

So as we come to the conclusion of our first month of the new year, how are you doing on the resolution front? I’m a big flipping failure on a few of mine. First, I intended to clean up my [...]

My good friend Julie Truesdell aka@TruesdellClass sent me the following Facebook message after last Sunday night’s NFL game: I have the very best Rippler friends in the world to send me [...]

  I was probably 10 years old. My soccer coach had arranged for an “exhibition match” with a superior team from the Lubbock area. The team was billed as the area’s all-star [...]