Sometimes you just got to talk things out. Can you? Are you willing to accept that you are potentially wrong or not thinking right? Are you willing to accept that the other party has a point of view that is legitimate? I notice that we spend a lot of time and energy avoiding conversations, and […]
Letter Writing
I keep coming back to letter writing, the lost art form. It is rather amazing what you can accomplish by writing a letter. Nothing says, “I mean it,” more than a personal letter. Give it a shot. Take the time to craft a letter and send it to someone that helped you in a major […]
My First Pheasant Hunt
A brisk and cold fall afternoon. My grandfather pointed to the old shotgun hanging on the fireplace mantle and told me to take it down. “I think I see our dinner outside, let me show you how to use that thing,” he says. He then directs me to grab a few shotgun shells out of […]
Everyday
There is something really powerful about doing something everyday. I have done seven things everyday for 1,327 days in a row. There are few things that I have learned in this process. Here are a few of those things. Progress is Obtained through Repetition – You may think you gain a lot of improvement by […]
The Acceptance Requirement
There are many essential human requirements for survival. We easily think of food, water, shelter against elements. Those are the easy ones. Lately we have become acutely aware of the need to have a healthy immune system. However, there are other human requirements that are not so easy to identify. However, these other requirements are […]
Perfect is Actually Progress
In the strive to be perfect, those perfectionists out there, need to understand that perfect is not an outcome. Perfect is actually just making progress. Think about it. Is there any end to possibility? Is there any end to the Universe? Is there any end to limitless potential? If things go on forever, there can […]
Make Your Own Ladder
Sure enough after writing my blog last night – guess what – I hit an achievement badge on my blogging tool that are started using a few months ago. 5K visitors since I started using the tool. I got a badge! I climbed the ladder! Ok so this is not so bad right? I mean […]
Ladder Climbing
We all love to climb ladders. If you were like me growing up, everything you did seemed to have some ladder associated with it. Good job Guy, you are reading at a 3rd Grade level! Wow, your math skills are at 5th Grade level! Here is your Boy Scout Badge and your advancement ranking pins […]
Intelligence is Deliberate
I think there is a false assumption in evolutionary science. The concept that things evolve to be better naturally. This has not been my experience. I think more often than not, things evolve to be worse then better. The fact that things evolve to be better, is not just a natural thing, it is caused […]
Lengthened Perspective
I have often reflected that if you have an eternal perspective, like let’s say God would have, then you really would not have problems per say. Problems indicated a temporary state of inconvenience, or pain that you are currently suffering but that will eventually end. An eternal perspective, one in which there is no end, […]
Plateau Jumping
The thing is that we jump from plateau to plateau on any successful journey. No climb up is a long continuous uphill. You do not gain progress with each and every step. There are some ups and downs, but for the most part there are a whole bunch of long plateaus. Long stretches of just […]
The Holy Place
I am convinced that part of a healthy, thriving lifestyle is to have a holy place that you visit frequently. This is the place where you pray more fervently, make commitments with earnest and work out the issues that haunt you. Without this holy place we find it difficult to differentiate the day to day […]
Are You Experienced?
Jimi Hendrix asked this question to his fans many years ago. If you can just get your mind together. Maybe this was a drug reference, maybe it wasn’t. Who knows. The music is actually amazing. Try to play rhythm, bass, and lead all at the same time and do it backwards and look cool doing […]
Head Down
Sometimes you just have to put your head down, grit your teeth and just get it done. Like today. However, I do have a realization to accompany this obvious thought. The first 1 minute of the head down approach REALLY SUCKS. However, the 2 minute only JUST SUCKS. After 20 minutes, 30 minutes, and hour, […]
The Unobtainable
The unobtainable is actually the most motivating. This is not a conventional way of thinking but it is a correct way of thinking. Humans gravitate toward inspiring and unobtainable goals. If you set an obtainable goal, people will nod their head, agree and then do nothing. Set a really high, impossible to reach goal and […]
Disclosure is OK
Just a note on this uncomfortable topic. Many times the path to improvement is to let people know what you are feeling, what you are struggling with and what you want. You would be surprised how many people get what they want by simply letting others know. People also tend to trust other people that […]
Shutup and Call It Meditation
So meditation continues to be all the rage. I certainly agree, and have proven to myself with a few tests that it is a good practice to get into. I will not get into all the reasons why. However, this little blog note is intended to help people, like me, that struggle channeling the feminine […]
Diffusion
When you purchase something you are paying for 100% of the features. The challenge is that when you actually introduce this innovation into your life, you will only use a small percentage of it. For example, you buy that shiny new Apple iphone 12 for $1000 bucks it is loaded with lots of cool features. […]
Sacrifice Precedes Benefit
There some universal laws that apply to us, just as concrete as any law of physics. When we drop an object, we expect that object to fall towards the earth. Einstein blew our collective minds when he tried to explain that these laws were universal, but relative. When you drop an object outside of the […]
The Right Amount of Crazy
So there is this fine line between doing something that other people think are crazy and actually being crazy. Not sure where the line is at, but I will say that I think it is important to push the limit enough to where people start calling you crazy, but not so far that you actually […]