Weekly Newsletter
Tag: living well
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 #25, 2025
Strength, courage, integrity, honor, humility, bravery, selflessness, empathy, love, kindness… these things are contagious, so catch them… and pass them on.
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 #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 #9, 2025
It's fine to take a share of what life offers to you. But don't chase it, in fact be happy to abstain from it. That is the path to contentment and wisdom.
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 #5, 2025
The thing about cycles is this. While inevitable and heroically beautiful, they are simultaneously tragic and sucky.