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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. I  intended to  clean up my potty [...]

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 [...]

No matter when your life ends, how do you want to finish up? Will you have lived the life you wanted to live or simply lived the life that you allow to happen to you? You still have a good bit of [...]

Sometimes we need a wake-up call.  Someone to shake us into reality and remind us to refocus on what is important. Consider this post just that – your wake-up call. As we head into the [...]