LifeBlood

2641: Number Your Days: You've Only Got So Many of Them

LifeBlood: There are only about 50 Saturdays in a year. An 80-year life contains roughly 4,000 weeks. Your kids will only believe in Santa for a handful of Christmases.

2640: Shop Different with Ron Johnson

LifeBlood: We talked about Ron's career journey from Target to Apple to JCPenney, the current state of physical and omnichannel retail, go-to-market strategy, relationshi

2639: The Fiction of Instant:Why Everything Takes Longer than We'd LIke

LifeBlood: We've been sold the fiction of instant. Next-day delivery. Food on demand. Buy now, pay later. Endless entertainment at our fingertips. We've engineered waiti

2638: Raising Strong Sons and Daughters: Preparing Them to Holdout When Necessary

How do you raise children who are strong enough to stand alone? Someday, your son or daughter may find themselves in a room where everyone else believes one thing—and th

2637: How to Find World Peace: It's Easier Than You Think

LifeBlood: World peace feels like one of humanity’s biggest and most impossible challenges. But what if we’ve been starting in the wrong place? Mother Teresa is widely c

2636: Faithfulness Over Success: Become a Good Steward

LifeBlood: What if the goal of your life isn't to become great? We're encouraged to dream big, achieve more, build something extraordinary, and make our mark. And there’

2635: The Right Person to Lead: How to Stop Electing Morons

LifeBlood: Who is actually the right person to lead? The smartest person? The strongest? The most empathetic? The toughest? The most experienced? Maybe we're asking the

2634: What's the Way Forward? How to Take Action in Uncertain Times

LifeBlood: What’s the way forward? For starters…it’s forward. You cannot change the past, reclaim lost years, or undo what happened to you. You can forgive, learn, accep

2633: The Town that Ate its Seed Corn: EVERYTHING Compounds

LifeBlood: There was once a prosperous farming town with a peculiar tradition: every harvest, they took some of their very best corn and locked it away. They called it s

2632: This Ends Here: When to Draw a Line in the Sand

LifeBlood: There comes a point when keeping your mouth shut stops being prudence and starts becoming self-betrayal. We live in an age of tribalism, outrage, intimidation

2631: Deadly Serious: Are You Protecting What Matters Most?

LifeBlood: Not everything deserves to be taken deadly serious. But some things do. Your family. Your health. Your work. The people who trust you. The responsibilities you

2630: Undeniable Ambition

LifeBlood: Every civilization must answer one timeless question: What should we do with human ambition? James Madison believed ambition should check ambition. Ayn Rand b

2629: Bridges, Seeds, or Garbage

LifeBlood: Not every contribution has to change the world. Some people build bridges that future generations will cross. Others plant seeds they'll never see grow. And s

2628: Overcoming Shame with Dr. Frank Spinelli

LifeBlood: We talked about overcoming shame, the distinction between guilt and shame, common sources of shame across demographics,the shame spiral and its link to addicti

2627: Tolerance is Overrated

LifeBlood: Tolerance is often treated as an unquestionable virtue. But should it be? You get what you tolerate. That's true with your children, your relationships, your

2626: Have You Asked?

LifeBlood: When we see a big problem, what's our first instinct? Do we ask who should pay? Or do we ask who is best equipped to help solve it? This episode explores a si

2625: Return Maxing

LifeBlood: Most people believe success comes from doing more. More work. More saving. More exercise. More planning. More learning. But life doesn't reward endless effor

2624: Achievement and Self-Worth

LifeBlood: Should your self-worth be separated from your achievements? Maybe…but only if we're talking about outcomes. Money, promotions, awards, and recognition don't de

2623: That Which Feeds Me, Destroys Me

LifeBlood: What if you lost everything tomorrow? Not your family. Not your health. Just...your stuff. Your house. Your furniture. Your closet. Your garage. Everything. W

2622: What If It Works?

LifeBlood: Is getting what you want actually what you really want? We often imagine the moment of success without thinking about the life that comes after it. We picture