February 6, 2026 | Read Online “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” - Peter Drucker 6,000 Wiener Dogs Can't Be Wrong “I feel like I’m on a rocket ship and I’m having trouble steering it.” This was my friend Alex Hopes’ reply when I asked him how his business was doing.Alex is the founder of ZilkerBark. I met him in Zilker Park where he would roam and take photos of random puppies. He captured my dog, Taco,...
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January 30, 2026 | Read Online “The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step.” – Brandon Sanderson. There’s a Lot Between All and Nothing When I was a grad student at NYU, I was struggling to see where my thesis was going. I had a good start, but no destination. I stopped writing and commenced ruminating. My professor, novelist E.L. Doctorow, gave me some invaluable life advice. “Driving at night, you can go the whole way and...
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January 23, 2026 | Read Online “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry One Room. One Book. Radical Simplicity In April, I'm taking my first trip to Japan. While planning, I stumbled upon a business that blew my mind. Morioka Shoten is a one-room bookstore in Tokyo's Ginza district. They only sell one book. Not one kind of book. One book. Morioka sells a single title each week. That's it. The store...
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January 16, 2026 | Read Online “‘Should,’ is a shame-based statement that creates stress and anxiety in your body and mind.” – Suzanna Newsonen Switch Off Your Should-O-Meter Earlier this month, I went for a walk with my friend Juanpablo. He’s in a career transition and shared how easy it is to slip into “should” self-talk. I should have started my next thing by now. It’s a trap. “Shoulds” are almost always about the expectations of others. They reflect impossible standards that would require...
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Quick Note: Today's email is about the battle for your calendar. If that battle feels real to you, the First Domino is designed to help. Doors are open until January 14th, with just a few spots remaining. Learn more here → January 09, 2026 | Read Online "Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One person gets only a week's value out of a year while another gets a full year's value out of a week." — Charles Richards Sliding Doors, Time...
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Before you set another goal for 2026, there's something you need to know. Most of what fills our calendars won't matter three years from now. But ONE thing will. On January 6th, I'll show you how to find it – and build a plan to make it happen. Register free for "Finding Your First Domino" → January 02, 2026 | Read Online “You live life looking forward; you understand life looking backward.” — Søren Kierkegaard The Only Question You Need to Answer for 2026 On my last day in the office before...
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December 26, 2025 | Read Online “The enemy echoes what we're afraid of until fear feels familiar and peace feels peculiar.” — Jeremy Johnson Permission to Pause My friend Jen Davis led one of the largest coaching companies in real estate. She was great at it. Then, in June 2024, she stepped away. When I asked her why, she shared a question that had stopped her cold: “Would you rather be special or happy?” Jen realized she'd spent her entire career chasing special — titles, milestones,...
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December 19, 2025 | Read Online “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter Drucker Year-End Inventory & Reflection For the past three years, I’ve shared year-end reflection questions here.* But I’ve skipped an important step. If you want to set better goals for next year, reflect on this year. If you want to have a more meaningful reflection, take inventory. Taking inventory primes your reflection process and helps...
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December 12, 2025 | Read Online “The way that we express love to people through gift-giving is by reflecting who they are back to them, and also by showing them who we see them as.” – Helen Rosner Show Them You Know Them In a LinkedIn post, McKinsey partner and bestselling author Carolyn Dewar shared a snapshot of a laminated card she'd found in her father's wallet. He meets the same group of friends for coffee every Monday morning. He likes to arrive early and order for everyone. So he made...
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