A parlor game we play in my circle is What's the Title of Your Autobiography? My husband: It's a Steve Thing, You Wouldn't Understand. My friend Jon: Can We Stop Here First? The J.D. Story. My father thought his memoir should be called The Man Who Couldn't [Dance the]...

Self-confidence battles self-loathing, self-criticism, and/or self doubt in most of the entrepreneurs I know. That takes a lot of energy, and it robs energy from these entrepreneurs doing what they do best: Their life's work. I am speaking for those I talk to on a...

I. The mechanics of getting out of bed in the morning are fairly simple, at least, for those who have full use of their limbs. You can do something fancy if you like, but rolling onto one side and sticking your feet over the edge of the bed have always worked for me....

It's nearly 7am. I've been awake and sitting at my computer for an hour. If you look at my browsing history, you can follow my attention (or inattention) span. I won't bore you with the details of bouncing around between my bank account, Facebook, and articles about...

What I really want to do is make something that matters, something bigger than myself. I want to make something that matters to me and find the other people to whom it also matters. And I believe if the thing matters to me, I can find others to whom it also matters....

I'm creating a contract with a friend. This is not a contract about friendship, it's a contract about work. I often work with friends, or make friends with people I work with, or pay people I come to consider my friends (I call them "paid friends," but not to their...