Week 22, 2024
We should be looking for high leverage activities. Levers that, when we pull them, make a much bigger impact than the effort it took to pull them.
April 21, 2024
When a person is set against adversity, where success is improbable, either as a team or an individual, and they rise to the occasion, it fills us up and makes us proud to be human... regardless of the skill level.
Week 20, 2024
There are myriad opportunities each week to inch towards the goal of being a better version of yourself. All it takes is a tiny bit of preparation. Be ready to reclaim your stolen time, don't be a chump.
Week 19, 2024
Maintenance isn't fun, usually, and often seems like a waste of time. But if you stop thinking of these things as your possessions, and start thinking of yourself of a caretaker, the relationship becomes richer and more meaningful. And it also helps sort the wheat from the chaff with regard to your stuff. If you aren't willing to have a relationship with it, it probably owns you.
Week 18, 2024
When you start focusing on how someone else isn't on the right path, you take your eyes off your own path. As long as they aren't telling you how you should live, let them fly their flag.
Week 17, 2024
It is easier to tolerate conflict when you are wound up and expecting it. It requires a much more skillful touch and a stronger constitution to be easy, free and geared up for peace, but competent and ready for battle.
Week 16, 2024
Everything is always a struggle. And in light of that truth, the truth that the path ahead is murky and overgrown at BEST, your mindset and your intention are likely more important than the choices you make moment to moment.
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 14, 2024
Our daily lives are full of routines that provide opportunities to build community. You have to notice and then act.