I want to take this opportunity to welcome you to the Smart Snares community. There is something special brewing here, and I know it. I wrote the book Smart Snares because I know I’m not the only one who has been tripped up by matters of my own making and my own intelligence. Sometimes it can be the very things that make you gifted that cause you to fail to live up to your full potential. It’s time to recognize it, push through it, and make the choices that will promote long-term success.
If you stay tuned here, you will find conversation, updates, more about me, and sometimes even a few snippets from the book itself. Every day is a new opportunity to reach people and create more connection, and I can’t wait to see where it will go and all the ways it can reach others through encouragement and the sharing of ideas.
When you visit the Smart Snares website, I hope you will participate and find yourself challenged and uplifted. This is a place where I hope to promote positivity, even in the tough and negative conversations. I would rather address elephants in the room and places I struggle than keep everything in the dark. If we can have honest, forthright discussions about the things that create the biggest struggles, we will be more likely to encourage others through issues and make changes that can make a difference forever.
Smart Snares is all about discussing all the things we say to ourselves or each other that cause us to fail to do our best. Recently I was discussing the book with someone and they asked me what it was about. It’s sort of silly when you have been working at something for so long and then have trouble summing it up, but after a few seconds I felt like I had an idea.
“If you put off a big essay until the last minute every time because you knew you could get a high grade on it without even trying, why would you ever change?”
That’s really what is at the heart of Smart Snares. People who don’t have a reason to change their habits don’t, and that’s why so many smart people underachieve. Eventually the bad behavior festers and creates issues in every area of life. Some of the issues I deal with in my life are issues no one would ever expect me to face because I’m that “smart guy.” I would argue that not only do I deal with them, but it’s likely that the habits I deal with were worsened because I was that guy.
As I got older, it was time to face these habits and issues for the sake of my wife, my children, and everyone around me. It was time to quit underachieving and start trying to lead. Although there is a long way to go, the book Smart Snares also takes a glimpse into times in the past where I have met my mark, as well as steps I’ve taken in the last year to make things better.
Join me as we explore these issues together and face our own smart snares!