Category: Uncategorized
-
Go Slow Before You Go Fast
We want to go fast from almost the moment we’re born. Once we’re through our newborn phase, we are on the move, fast. We roll to our bellies, learn how to crawl, cruise on furniture, stand up, balance, and then learn how to walk. Walking becomes running, running becomes sprinting, and then the fun begins…
-
Failure Is Only Feedback
Failure doesn’t conjure good thoughts. It means you’ve fallen flat on your face, stopped in your tracks, lost money, or missed that game-winning field goal as time expired. When you have witnesses, it’s double the fun. Michael Jordan said, “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times,…
-
Set Your Own Standards
What springs to mind when you see and hear the word standards? Is it A level of quality Things used as a measure Something accepted as typical or average Or is it none of those? The above are definitions of standard. There are standards we set for ourselves, societal norms, and standards we have to…
-
How To Spot Truth in a Sea of Misinformation
Information comes at us thick and fast. Some of it is good, but a lot of it is B.S. Estimates indicate that we generate approximately 402.74 million terabytes of information per day. One thousand gigabytes make up a terabyte. Experts estimate that a single terabyte could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica. 10 terabytes…
-
5 Ways To Keep Getting Back Up
If someone falls down and then gets back up, it’s a comedy. If someone falls and doesn’t get up, it’s a tragedy. Life is a mix of both, but wouldn’t you prefer your life to be a comedy, not a tragedy? Ponder this for a moment. We all fall; someone or something knocks us down,…
-
3 Ways To Empty Your Stress Bucket
People get the wrong idea about stress because of the negativity surrounding it, which happens when you have too much of it. If you’ve read this far, it’s likely that at some point your stress bucket overflowed. Flipping the coin, if not enough stress is applied, you will stagnate and decline. If you don’t move…
-
Do Less of This And More Of That
Do less of this and more of that could refer to anything. It could be eating less candy and more fiber, but it’s not. Who really wants to eat less candy? The headline refers to an abstract idea, similar to something Dr. Phil might say, but more on that later. Navigating life and the world…
-
How To Get A Fitness Mindset
Are you familiar with the term ‘own worst enemy’? Some of that comes down to your mindset. Mindset is the set of attitudes a person holds. Oh, attitude — I have plenty of that — but there’s no need for me to derail this post so early. All of us have an internal dialogue running…
-
Autism: A Parent’s Viewpoint
When my son was born, he came out hungry, pudgy, and smiling. Those big gummy smiles didn’t just brighten my world; they lifted the hearts of everyone around him. Being a stay-at-home father gave me the priceless gift of witnessing that joy every day, along with looking forward to all the milestones that came with…
-
Carrying Baggage
Who hasn’t carried baggage? Whether you’re traveling by plane, train, or car, you’ve packed a suitcase or three. If you’ve ever been late for a flight and had to dash with your baggage, you know how much fun it is. Baggage, we all carry it. But it’s often the internal baggage we carry around that…