What do you want to accomplish?

“You vs You” might sound like a good mindset, but it creates unnecessary internal conflict.

The only acceptable answer to fear is action. Where fear casts its shadow, action must shine its light. Inaction allows the shadow of fear to infect and spread. Action is the antidote to fear’s poison. Action is the light that pushes back the darkness fear needs to survive. When you find yourself...

Disciplined people make decisions. Confident people make consequential decisions.

Where your power ends, so does your freedom. Increasing your power expands your freedom. Discipline expands your freedom because it increases your power.

My wife and I are raising two kids—one boy and one girl. Beyond the basics of keeping them alive and healthy, our chief responsibility is to prepare them to care for themselves. Because one day, they will leave the structured freedom we provide and enter the environment of full freedom. Adults like...

What does integrity have to do with freedom? Everything. But not how you might think.

You are responsible for what you do with your freedom. Responsibility does not mean you must do or not do anything in particular. It means you are responsible for what you do with your freedom, where it leads, and its consequences.

Let’s discuss freedom and our relationship with it.

I want these messages to influence not only your discipline but also how you think — not what you think, but how you think. Because bad thinking is a big problem.