I've had many opportunities in life to be vengeful. I've been broken up with, screwed over, and wronged just as many times as the next guy. I've had a front-row seat to moments where people have attempted to extinguish my flame, but I've never seen anyone succeed at finishing the job. In the end, I […]
A vision quest can mean a couple of things. Back in the day, when Native American boys would go through puberty, they would go on a vision quest where they would starve themselves to see a vision of the future. They used these visions to chart their course into adulthood. It's also an amazing 80s […]
If you have never had to look your children in the eyes and tell them that you “lost” your job, then you have never truly lived. You search for the right life lesson as you are explaining to them that life sometimes deals you a bad hand and you didn't do anything wrong to deserve […]
Are you living a defining life? If you let it, your life story could be defined simply by the actions you take in certain pivotal moments. You should not be defined by one moment, but your navigation of a series of opportunities that are strung together over the course of a lifetime. Then again, your […]
Don't get me wrong, New Year’s resolutions are fun. They give you something to keep track of or to do with a friend, but most tend to fade out by March (and then you’re stuck making that gym payment for the rest of the year). Like "no shave November" or Lent, it's always good to […]
The hunt in life is better than the kill. Two things tend to happen when you are chasing your life’s dreams. 1) You are so fixated on the goal that you forget to enjoy or learn from the journey. 2) You hit the goal and think to yourself “now what”? I grew up in a […]
When I was a kid I would take a cardboard box, decorate it to look like a car, and then have my older brother and sister whip me around a tile or hardwood floor. When you're 5 or 6 years old, you're small enough to fit in a box, and once you get moving and […]
When I was a kid, you couldn't pull me off my bike. I would do everything on my bicycle! I'd even take my PBJ outside with me, just to eat it while sitting on my bike. When I wasn't riding my bike, I was saving money to keep it going. Buying patches and new tubes, […]
My 9 year old daughter Erin is the best swimmer in the family. I would know this because I watch her swim every Saturday morning at 8am. I get up, get her ready and take her to swim. Where many parents use Saturday morning as a time to sleep in; I'm up and running […]
I've been moving forward my entire life. I've kick boxed on and off, for the past 10 years. Nothing gets your heart pumping or relieves stress like beating the hell out of a heavy bag hanging from the ceiling and I try to do this around 3 times a week. Occasionally, depending on the trainer, […]