I’m Jeff.

I’ve spent a lot of my life building things—businesses, churches, teams, woodcarving, and occasionally things that probably should have come with better instructions.

I’ve also had a few things fall apart.

Somewhere along the way, I began noticing that some of the best lessons I had learned about life and leadership weren’t coming from leadership books. They were showing up in ordinary places—in a workshop, around a campfire, sitting with my grandchildren, recovering from a hospital stay, or watching an old cartoon on a Saturday morning.

That’s really where this book came from.

I’m not trying to convince you that I’ve figured life out. I haven’t. I’m inviting you to pay attention with me—to the stories, people and little moments that have something to teach us if we’re willing to notice.

We grew up with these characters.

Charlie Brown kept running toward the football. Pooh somehow understood the value of an ordinary day. Geppetto kept working with his hands. Moana learned to find her way when there wasn't a map.

Saturday Morning Leadership looks again at those familiar stories—and at the lessons about resilience, contentment, responsibility, wisdom, creativity, persistence, craftsmanship, showing up, wayfinding, and the story we're still writing.

This isn't a book about cartoons.

It's a book about what happens when we start paying attention.