Leading with purpose—podcast interview
Leading with purpose is a key topic in Peter’s podcast appearance on the Beyond Your Why podcast. Listen here.
Courage
Death really gets in the way of living
The only thing better than seeing a local stand-up comedy show about grief and death is when your partner takes you to see it on Valentine’s Day. Yes, that was the date she took me on last Friday. The comedy was better than I expected. But I’m not here to talk about that. Today I’m … Read more
New mistakes are the key to lifelong learning
Learning from your mistakes isn’t so you stop messing up. It’s so you can go out and have fun making new mistakes.
Three simple tools of resilience
Three simple tools of resilience can help you have confidence, clarity, and calm in a crisis. Do these today to make tomorrow easier.
Stop planning and execute already
Stop planning and take action. If you’re stuck in a planning loop, here are four questions that can help you break free.
Create your lifeline to the future
We all need a lifeline to the future, a future story, to help us get through the problems that seem insurmountable today.
We are not talking about an itchy sweater.
You can either destroy the thing you don’t understand, or destroy your fear of that thing. We are not talking about an itchy sweater.
There is no bad weather, only bad clothing
There is no bad weather. Only bad clothing. This is a useful metaphor for most of life, and something to remember on this Election Day.
Personal boundaries matter. Here’s how to enforce them.
Enforce your personal boundaries because if you don’t, no one else will. Here’s why it’s important, and how to get better at it.
Stuck in a web of bungee cords: ambivalence in decision making
Three ways to clarify your decision making when you feel like you’re stuck in a web of bungee cords pulling you in different directions.