Weekly Newsletter
Tag: good life
Week #27, 2025
It is a very difficult skill to master, living in the present moment. But, it is likely the most important. In fact, there is no other moment.
Week #25, 2025
Strength, courage, integrity, honor, humility, bravery, selflessness, empathy, love, kindness… these things are contagious, so catch them… and pass them on.
Week #17, 2025
It seems so simple to understand that other people have hopes and dreams too. You want to be REALLY happy? Help them achieve those hopes and dreams.
Week #15, 2025
Instead of living an off-the-shelf life, where your house looks the same as all the people you are trying in vain to impress, have the courage to listen to your actual preferences, and do the work to be different. Sure, it's less efficient, but it is so much more fulfilling!
Week #7, 2025
Week #7 of 2025 has arrived. The world is changing. But then again, it always is. What doesn't change? The seasons, the sunrise, the truth that the world is a place of abundance, if you would only start to see it. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? Last week on the podcast I mentioned that I was curious who listens... I said I would consider 10 emails that said "I'm listening" a success. We received 6. So, this week on the podcast I joked that it was the last week of the podcast. Likely there was at least one person who, in the pregnant pause, thought, "Dang, I should have sent...
Week #4, 2025
Week #4 of 2025 has arrived. The polar vortex has sent super cold weather to the Great Plains. My hands hurt it's so cold. The polar vortex is cyclical. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? Cycles. Everything cycles. And yet, cycles don't exist in a vacuum. We are imprisoned in the cycles of: the universe, the earth, human history, our country, our culture, our politics, our family, etc... but we aren't imprisoned by those cycles. And while as individuals we can't remove ourselves from the cycles we find ourselves in, our actions do affect the trajectory and duration of the cycles. You do have agency. However, it is often not the agency that...
Week #49, 2024
Every person, every thing, every idea in our lives weighs on us in measure to how dear we hold it. Some are worth carrying forever, some only for a while, and some were never worth carrying.
Week 39, 2023
One of the most valuable lessons I have learned in the last decade of focus on "being better" is: It is perpetual. There is no moment of nirvana. The cavalry isn't coming. Some days are harder, some days are easier, but love and be grateful for the struggle, because it will be there when you wake up in the morning.
Week 11, 2023
Big heroic gestures really get our juices flowing... they make great movies and, with the right soundtrack, are usually home run heart-string-tuggers. And yet, all the durable wins are in daily actions, repeated over years... the rest is just background noise.