Week 13, 2024

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. 

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Week 12, 2024

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. 

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Week 11, 2024

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)...

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Week 10, 2024

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.

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Week 9, 2024

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.

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Week 8, 2024

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...

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Week 7, 2024

Week 7, 2024

Sometimes a thing just has to be done in less than ideal circumstances. And if it has to be done, just do it, and try to smile. The second you realize that you have choice, then the question is: "Who do I want to become?"

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Week 6, 2024

Week 6, 2024

Nearly everyone overestimates what they can get done in a day, and underestimates what they can get done in a year.

Expect great things for yourself... we're all counting on you

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Week 5, 2024

Week 5, 2024

I've worked hard on things that didn't pan out, and I've worked hard on things that did.  The only unifying theme in my life is that I have benefited from, and learned to love hard work. (Most kinds.)

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Week 4, 2024

Week 4, 2024

You can choose to be tougher. You should value toughness over ability. You always have a choice to endure, to push yourself a bit farther than you prefer.

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