Weekly Newsletter
Tag: Everything is a choice
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 #11, 2025
The people around you are having a huge effect on the expression of your personality.
Week #2, 2025
Week #2 of 2025 has arrived. And just like that the starting pistol has sounded, all of the anxiety about starting the race is over, and now we are in the middle of the beginning of the New Year. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? I love the holidays, but I’m not sad that they’re over. This year especially felt more fraught than usual. I heard a similar refrain from a lot of folks my age. A break in the routine is important, but you know what is more important? Loving your routine. If you don’t enjoy your day to day… if you NEED the escape of weekends, vacations and holidays… changing...
Week #52, 2024
You often don't have a choice about the first arrow. You ALWAYS have a choice about the second.
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 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 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 48, 2023
The reason for the season, regardless of which flavor your tribe celebrates, is to be generous and kind with your time, attention, and treasure.
Week 8, 2023
Everything is a choice, even if you deny that you are choosing. Everything is changing, even as you struggle in vain to keep it the same. So, acknowledge that you are choosing... and know that with each choice you step closer to that person. Every time you choose to do the hard thing, you are stepping towards being the person who isn't afraid of hard things.