Weekly Newsletter
Tag: choose growth
Week #29, 2025
Maybe all the meaning is in doing things that are hard, and the harder they are the more they mean to you.
Week #28, 2025
Why are we so afraid of being alone with our thoughts? Why is it so easy for phones and apps and social media to distract us? Why are we drawn to the porch light of contrived drama and cheap conflict? Why are we so ready to be distracted?
Week #21, 2025
If you are stuck, think about the system and start at one end, confirming each link as you go.
Week #20, 2025
The hardest work you can do is the work of controlling the five and a half inches between your ears. It's difficult, thankless work.
Week #19, 2025
Week #19 of 2025 has arrived... Astronomers have discovered chemical compounds in the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years away that may hint at biological activity. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? Nearly every part of that sentence will blow your mind if you let it. Astronomers: Humans can actually study the universe. Chemical compounds: Humans can understand the building blocks of life. Atmosphere of a planet: Humans understand what an atmosphere is and what it means for us and other life in the universe. 124 light years away: The light that is arriving from this planet today is older than airplanes. Biological activity: Imagine for a minute what it would mean for humanity to...
Week #18, 2025
Let yourself be overwhelmed by the beauty of existence and barf that overwhelm out on those around you. Life is too short not to be amazed.
Week #16, 2025
By starting now, at whatever capacity you can manage, you have already tilted the stars in your favor.
Week #13, 2025
Week #13 of 2025 has arrived... And we have safely passed the Ides of March... Just incase any of you Caesars were worried. Et tu, Brute! Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? This week is all about my back. It was bothering me this week... Who knows why... but that meant that a few times this week, instead of barreling through my agenda like an unbridled force of nature, I needed to lay on the ground for a few minutes. Each time, our wonderful 100 lb, loveable mutt Walter came over, laid nearly on top of me, and rested his head on my chest. When he does that, I often wonder...
Week #12, 2025
Week #12 of 2025 has arrived... Spring is here! Spring is here!... if only for a minute!!! Death and rebirth... it's glorious when it comes! Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? Are you in a season of saying no, or a season of saying yes? I recently realized that it was time for me to stop saying no to everything, and start saying yes a bit more... No was useful for a while. There were too many things... Focus was essential. But, it is easy to get all caught up in your perfectly curated situation, and not notice as things get stale, novelty dries up, and growth grinds to a halt. Everything...