Question four of twenty-eight  No. Not at all times.  Sometimes I lose my temper, get frustrated for holding an expectation or numb and don’t want to do anything  But these are all things I can control.  I can choose to be cooperative in my actions  I can choose to be positive with my attitude  It … Continue reading 407. Have I been positive and cooperative at all times?

Are you willing to do whatever it takes?  Will you not let anything stand in your way?  Ever had that feeling? Being so sure that X is going to happen because that’s the only option.  This business has to work, I have all my savings in it.  This baby has to come out alive.  I’ll … Continue reading 406. How bad do you want it? 

Question three of twenty-eight.  There’s a story that rings a bell when I hear this question.  Two pianists play the same song but sound different  What’s the difference?  One is playing the notes, the other is playing with his heart - giving everything he got.  There is a difference.  Have I played with my heart … Continue reading 405. Have I given all I could give this year? 

Social media  It takes up a lot of our time  Yeah we can “connect” with others - but is it really a connection?  And sure, we can meet some interesting people or rekindle past friendships - but how’s that going?  Now - it seems social media is a way to distract ourselves, to take us … Continue reading 404. Loving every second

Question two of twenty-eight.  This year in review: bought a duplex, ran a 50-mile race, spent the summer in Florida (tried to move there), became a fine dining server at the bluebell inn (high paying job), bought a single-family house, maxed out my retirement accounts, have a 24-hour race coming up… Pretty great year for … Continue reading 403. Have I given my best this year? How can I improve? 

More Money? A healthy life? Happy marriage? Helping others? To be famous? Spiritually sound? To express ourselves? To create? To leave the world a better place than we found it?  Go deeper.  How are we prosperous? What is our relevance?  The beauty? Our answers will change with time. That’s fine.  But can we keep a … Continue reading 402. What is success to us? 

Did I achieve my goal this year?  We should work with a definite yearly goal  It’d help if this goal was a ‘subsection’ of the larger goal  Someday I want to have total mind control (an ideal to always chase)  In 5 years I can run 5 BIG foot races. (Because I believe running is … Continue reading 401. Question one of twenty eight 

  Books are intentionally put together  Acknowledgments, table of contents, beginning, end - chapters  It may take a week, year, or even a few to write a book But our life book takes YEARS to assemble. from our first chapter: birth to our last chapter: death  What’s in between is everything else that happened.  Some … Continue reading 400. The book of life

Maybe our mom just died Or a close friend got diagnosed with some life threatening disease  Even if we had the worst day ever  How would we act?  Maybe we act level headed, that’d be great  But what if we lose that level-headedness? What if we have a bad day and then end up expressing … Continue reading 399. What if we went through that?

It seems like I’m stuck on a sick-ass merry-go-round. We make mistakes - let’s own them though, not pass the buck.  Make amends and move on because guilt and regret killed more people than ever before their time was up.  We can get off the ride; whenever we want.  We’re the author of our book … Continue reading 398. Ever been in a rut?