Week 17, 2024
It is easier to tolerate conflict when you are wound up and expecting it. It requires a much more skillful touch and a stronger constitution to be easy, free and geared up for peace, but competent and ready for battle.
Week 16, 2024
Everything is always a struggle. And in light of that truth, the truth that the path ahead is murky and overgrown at BEST, your mindset and your intention are likely more important than the choices you make moment to moment.
Week 15, 2024
I think of The Great Sadness as the hole that none of us can fill. No matter how hard you try... you just can't fill it. It's something you just have to hold, awkwardly...
Week 14, 2024
Our daily lives are full of routines that provide opportunities to build community. You have to notice and then act.
Week 13, 2024
Be earnest! It's more vulnerable, but infinitely better for all of us, and one of the best ways to make the most of your 4000 weeks.
Week 12, 2024
Give something nearly all that you have this week. Somehow, in some way, ask yourself to do more than you think you can, and then just ask again for a bit more.
Week 11, 2024
Week 11 of 2024 has arrived. I. Love. Spring. She isn't quite here yet, but I can hear her whistling as she comes into town. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? I ripped a scab off my knee today at basketball while diving for a loose ball. A scab that had formed over a scrape I got while... diving for a loose ball. I'm 46.5 Most of them are 20-35. One of the guys on another court laughed after. He had seen the bloody tissue on the bleachers and said he knew it was me. I think they all think I am a bit insane. I'm a little ashamed (just a little)...
Week 10, 2024
None of us is perfect. The goal should be to be great in act 60 % or more of the time. That is when you will see growth, and start to build habits to put that 60% on autopilot so you can get to the remaining 40%. Sometimes I remind myself that everything is a trend... make sure your good habits are trending up and to the right.
Week 9, 2024
Once you realize that you are facing that much change in the future, it becomes clear how important it is to be intentional about how you want to change, and what world you want to live in when you get there.
Week 8, 2024
Week 8 of 2024 has arrived. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? I am not usually despondent. I am a problem solver at heart. I usually only need a second to flip from anger/disappointment/surprise, etc, over to "We can fix this..." So It broke my heart a bit on Valentine's Day when I reacted to the shooting at the Super Bowl victory parade with an unsurprised, unengaged, despondent sadness. Everyone in Kansas City knows someone who was affected. It's the biggest small town. Gun companies have spent the last 2 decades gloriously profiting while cranking out as many firearms as possible, driving the price down to essentially nothing, with immunity from liability...