The Catalyst Newsletter

Thursday, May 11, 2023 Twenty seconds of insane courage can change your life. Last week, I shared about 5 Ways to Use Fear to Your Advantage where I touched briefly on courage. What is courage? Courage is action in the face of fear. In the movie, We Bought a Zoo with Matt Damon, he takes his two children to the restaurant where he met his now deceased wife. Walking by on the street, he suddenly spotted her through the window and stopped dead in his tracks. He thought to himself, All I need is...

A weekly newsletter to help high achievers (a.k.a over-achievers) reach their potential and make a difference. We overestimate what we can accomplish in the short term and underestimate what we can accomplish in the long term. Watch the video on YouTube >> Every quarter, I take a day to reset and reconnect with my life plan. This dedicated time allows me to evaluate my performance on previous quarterly goals and thoughtfully plan for the upcoming quarter. It's a powerful opportunity to...

A weekly newsletter to help high achievers reach their potential and make a difference. How Are You? Your answer to 'How are you?' reveals more about your future success and well-being than any strategic plan. We often wear busyness as a badge of honor. Ask ten people how they are doing, and nine out of ten times the answer will be, “busy.” That’s not the way things ought to be. What if instead of answering, “Busy,” your answer was, “I’m well rested and feeling great!” Or “You know, despite...

A weekly newsletter to help high achievers (a.k.a over-achievers) reach their potential and make a difference. If time is like gold, then attention is like rhodium. Never heard of rhodium? You're not alone. As of December 2024, rhodium was worth $4,575 per Troy Ounce compared to gold's $2,599. It's literally the most precious metal on earth. Attention works the same way—it's far more valuable than even your time. We've all heard Warren Buffet's famous quote about being able to buy anything...

A weekly newsletter to help high achievers (a.k.a over-achievers) reach their potential and make a difference. Like butter scraped over too much bread… That's how many of us feel these days—stretched thin and racing from one thing to the next. I know because I've been there. The constant push for more, better, faster left me feeling like I was sprinting on a treadmill that kept speeding up. But here's what I've discovered: Nature never rushes. Everything in nature has a rhythm. A cadence. A...

Helping high achievers (a.k.a overachievers) reach their potential and make a difference. You don't have to choose between dreaming about the future and living in the present. When we push too far one way, life has a way of pulling us back. That's my story - a future-focused visionary who needed to learn the art of present living. There’s nothing wrong with dreaming, except when you live in the future instead of the present. For future-focused leaders, there is always a tension between...