Month: October 2026

Have you ever noticed that once someone gets on your nerves, everything they do seems to be irritating? The way they talk. The things they say. The decisions they make. At some point, even the way they say “good morning” feels like nails on a chalkboard.  Suddenly, you have an endless...

I saw something on social media this past week that made me laugh, and then it made me think. There’s a Photoshop request group whose posts pop up in my feed all the time, and many of the requests are pretty amusing, especially once you dive into the comments. (That’s usually where the gold...

Lately I've been thinking about how quickly disappointment can turn into discouragement if we aren't paying attention. Something doesn't go the way we hoped. The opportunity doesn't come through. The turnout isn't what we expected. Someone doesn't respond. The thing we poured ourselves into...

We are professionals at disaster. Give most of us a stressful situation and we'll run the worst-case scenario in full HD… every conversation that goes wrong, every deal that falls through, every version of tomorrow where it all falls apart. We rehearse it. We refine it. We give it hours. I hate...