Harbingers of Life
“Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth. That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.” – Jordan Peterson Ever talk about life as though it’s […]
Bargaining With Life For a Penny
“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.” – Napoleon Hill Did you know that rewarding yourself for doing important […]
The Sport of Progress
“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.” – Barbara Hall Success is a funny thing. If you’ve ever felt the high of achievement, […]
The Madness Gene
“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.” – Elizabeth Kolbert At some point, our ancient ancestors did something they did not […]
Training Wheels
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson Last week I bought my daughter her first “big kid” bike and we took it for a ride in the park. I got her geared up with all the fittings — a helmet, knee pads, and […]
Handwriting Health
“Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.” – Natalie Goldberg I spend most of my time writing on a computer. But recently, I’ve started hand-writing in a notebook every morning. I find that it slows me down and makes me really think about the words I’m putting on the page. In our […]
Your Curiosity Trigger
“When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.” – Andy Andrews Did you know those big wigs men used to wear in the 17th century were originally used to hide the signs of syphilis (one symptom of which is hair loss)? They eventually […]
Life Lasts a Lifetime
“To know how to wait is the great secret of success.” – Joseph DeMaistre A watched pot never boils. That’s an easy lesson to learn when you’re doing something with a clear finish line. On a run, the less you check your progress — and the more you allow yourself to get distracted by the […]
There’s a Book For That
A house without books is like a room without windows.” – Horace Mann You’ve probably seen the now famous 2009 Apple “there’s an app for that” commercial. Well… just as there’s an app for doing almost anything, there’s a book for learning almost anything. I believe there are some things that transcend money and finances […]
Hope Molecules
“If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll probably have to make time for illness.” -Robin Sharma Imagine you could snap your fingers and protect yourself from future physical and mental health illnesses. That’d change everything, wouldn’t it? Well… it turns out you do have an “internal pharmacy” you can access anytime you want with […]