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 to help high achievers (a.k.a over achievers) reach their potential and make a difference. Read this on my website... Did you know that 92% of people give up on their goals by January 12th? Pretty shocking, right? I used to be part of that statistic. Every year, I'd write down my goals with excitement, only to find them collecting dust by February. It was frustrating and, honestly, a bit embarrassing. But then I discovered something that changed everything. The problem wasn't my...

A weekly to help high achievers (a.k.a overachievers) reach their potential and make a difference. Happy New Year! We all want to enter the New Year on a full tank, not an empty one. One indicator I need to recharge is when I’m no longer excited to write these weekly emails. That’s how I’ve felt over the last few weeks, so I’ve been recharging. Here's a simple REST framework I use - it might help you design your own recharge strategy: R for Relational: spending quality downtime with family...

A weekly e-newsletter to help you reach your potential and make a difference. Read this on my website... My entire work life can be reduced to just three core responsibilities. Last week, we discovered that eating elephants isn’t possible if your plate is already full. Sometimes the answer isn't doing more—it's doing less and simplifying things. That’s why I’ve simplified my work down to three primary responsibilities: Abide - keeping my faith and personal relationship with God at the center...

A weekly e-newsletter to help you reach your potential and make a difference in the world. The end of the year brings a unique kind of exhaustion. It seems no matter how hard I try to minimize and simplify, I still feel bogged down this time of year. I call it the holiday malaise. It's not depression (though if you're dealing with that, I have deep compassion for you). It's more like a fog that settles in when: Trying to wrap up important work and feeling the "deadline" of the end of the year...

A weekly e-newsletter to help you reach your potential and make a difference in the world. Read this on my website... Working alongside AI feels like having a good intern or assistant who never sleeps, constantly learns, and can accomplish certain large tasks with amazing speed (with some caveats). In our series so far, we've explored AI's history, key terminology, common fears, and ethical concerns. Today, let's discover how to effectively use AI in your daily work. This will be my final...