Everything has a dichotomy  A balance point  Or rather - a counter balancing act  Because life is dynamic and rarely - if ever - is anything “perfectly balanced”  And because of that, we have to determine which side were going to lean on and when  How much to learn vs do  How much time to … Continue reading 167. Dichotomy

Fears - we all have them. Most though are conquered by their fears  Their fear causes them to retract and become tense and tight.  And some don’t even know they fear things stating, “I fear nothing”  Yeah right.  But, it's not a zero sum game  It’s not “I’m fearful or I'm not.” It’s “I may … Continue reading 166. Tame the cobra of fear

Life is simply a collection of experiences.  And our goal should be to increase the frequency and the intensity of the good experiences we have.  So set a timeline: once a week, month, quarter, year  - and create an experience that has some memorable intensity.  Snowboarding, mountain biking, hiking, date to a new restaurant - … Continue reading 165. Life is experience

Growing up, I thought people who were together, they were just ‘meant for eachother’  Whatever that means…  Maybe that’s why the divorce rate is so high in America Because low and behold, relationships, especially romantic relationships, take work. This exercise that couples could do on a weekly basis takes about 15 minutes. Corie and I … Continue reading 164. Weekly Relationship Review

 We talk a lot about controlling what we can control  That’s ourselves and what we do and say, how we act, what we do  And that’s what is being touched on, what we do.  Things happen that we could have never planned for every day “Things come up”  But there’s something that happens everyday without … Continue reading 163. Morning and Night Routines

When we're attempting to break old bad habits, and create new ,healthier ones…  We must remember to not be so hard on ourselves.  Maybe we’ve spent 5, 10, 20, 40 years repeating the same behavior that we’re trying to change We’ve got to expect that there is going to be some level of difficulty in … Continue reading 162. Breaking old bad habits, creating new ,healthier ones…

We can’t.  In life, if we don’t know what we want, how can we achieve it?  We can’t.  This question is so simple, yet it gets glossed over.  Maybe it's because we don’t take a second to smell the roses and ask ourselves this question and others like it.  Or maybe it's because we don’t … Continue reading 161. If we don’t know where we are going – how can we get to our destination?

A teacher and a child were walking through the forest and stopped before a small sapling.  Pull it up the teacher said, and the child did - easily - with just their two fingers.  Now pull that one up, said the teacher and the child did, pulling up roots and all And that one too, … Continue reading 160. So Big We Hesitate

I didn't know - how many times do we hear that? Ignorance is not an excuse though  Because if we back into someone, running them over and killing them - I didn’t know they were there, isn’t going to hold up well.  Because if we discriminate when we’re in a business that has set discrimination … Continue reading 159. I didn’t know

Is it safe to say that our life is the result of all the past decisions that we have made?  Yeah, because it's true.  Every decision we make has led us to exactly where we are now.  To go to college or not  To go to that party  To drink that beer   To read that … Continue reading 158. Is our life the result of all the past decisions that we have made?