I wasn’t ready. I’m never ready. November is National Novel Writing Month and somewhere in the midst of choosing costumes for kids, helping my wife turn a garage into a haunted house for a 7-year-old’s birthday party, and yet another round of client-based travel, I realized that it was high Read more…
My wife loves horror movies. LOVES THEM! I do not. I’m not talking about the gory Saw, Hostel, Human Centipede fare. Oh no, she likes the creepy, let-me-haunt-you, possess-you stuff. The crap that freaks me out. Her favorite is Halloween or anything Wes Craven has done. It’s her father’s fault, Read more…
I lost my battle with the Day Job Dragon. Lost badly. For the last 3 weeks I have been embroiled in a life-or-death war with clients and commitments, added value value adds, phone calls and emails, meetings and travel. And laundry! Oh so much laundry! Entire mounds of it, overflowing Read more…
Somebody once told me “Know your limits.” I think that’s bad advice: as soon as you start believing in limits, you start believing in what you cannot do, in what you cannot achieve. Limits are for suckers. Anything is possible.
Well, not exactly. I remember where I was when it happened. I remember getting off the train in downtown Cleveland and jumping a bus to work, and having my receptionist ask me if I’d heard someone flew a plane into the World Trade Center. I remember responding “On purpose?” I Read more…
I have long toyed with the idea of writing a business book that focused on the management strategies of Darth Vader. I mean seriously, though “more machine than man now, twisted and evil,” Vader was the quintessential executive. Consider this: He had a well-documented low tolerance for failure—this pursuit of Read more…
Hi, my name is Chris and I’m an addict. See, I have this horrible addiction to food and shelter, heat and light. It’s made me do things I’m not proud of, this addiction. It’s turned me into someone I never thought I’d be: a person with…a Day Job. Writers are Read more…