The Daily Journal

The Daily Journal By the Ocean Partly Cloudy 77 Degrees 7:21 a.m. Are you chasing your dreams or are you embodying the state where they “chase” you? These are two very different approaches to achieving the same result. If you chase, every day on the journey is a day of not having what you want. … Read more

The Daily Journal By the Ocean Mostly Cloudy 75 Degrees 6:16 a.m. If you can deal with the pain that often comes in the moment, martial arts can teach you an enormous amount about life and business. When I started training, I thought it was about fighting. And while that’s true, it’s more about moving … Read more

The Daily Journal By the Ocean Cloudy 77 Degrees 6:19 a.m. What if you just try to be helpful? Not a lot of business books out there about that. We’re supposed to learn about marketing and selling and customer lifetime value. What about just helping people? What if THAT was the priority? What would shift … Read more

The Daily Journal By the Ocean Cloudy 80 Degrees 7:50 a.m. Yesterday, a certain Angry Elf on this list responded to my newsletter with a simple and direct message: “F*** off.” In an age where time is short, you have to congratulate him on his brevity! I usually don’t respond to communications like that, but … Read more

The Daily Journal By the Ocean Sunny 82 Degrees 9:02 a.m. This morning I had a LinkedIn account for about 20 minutes. I created one for some work I’m doing with a client. About 20 minutes later I was forwarded to a security screen to check some boxes next to pictures of bicycles. After I … Read more

The Daily Journal By the Ocean Sunny 83 Degrees 8:56 a.m. Something shifted with the advent of algorithm-driven social media. Objective reality took a hit. In the “old days,”” industries had structures. There was a lineage. There was succession. It didn’t take long to discover the elders, the experts, the veterans. Those were the folks … Read more