“Belief in yourself is overrated. Generate evidence.” — Ryan Holiday What does your personal scorecard look like as we crossed off the first 100 days of 2022 earlier this week? What were your highlights? What hasn’t met your expectations when we began the year? Doesn’t that inform us of what needs to change immediately?
To be nobody butyourself in a worldwhich is doing its best day and night to make you likeeverybody else means to fight the hardest battlewhich any human being can fight and never stop fighting.― e e cummings “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment…
“A master is in control. A master has a system. A master turns the ordinary into the sacred.” – Ryan Holiday “The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every day. He goes to the job, does his work, pays his bills…
Mother’s Day 2021 seems to be trending back towards where we were before the pandemic, if forever different. Before you just showed up with flowers or a gift, broke some bread and tried to sync with siblings to be there at the same time. Now there are things to consider, beginning with who’s vaccinated and…
“a small change in rudder affects both the journey and the destination”– Kat Lehmann, Small Stones From The River There is no doubt that the year brought unprecedented storms that have collectively altered our course. But what of the set of our sail? What of the rudder? The world in all its maddeningly unpredictable ways…
“If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.” – John McPhee Now and then I re-read that quote to shake myself out of my own head. The implications of that McPhee sentence are profound…
“You’re alive. You have one very short life. When your life ends, it goes to zero. To you its indistinguishable, from your perspective your death is indistinguishable from the end of the world. As far as you’re concerned the world has disappeared. Because when you came into existence the world appeared. When you go out…
“What’s the me in ten years going to think about what I did today?” – Hugh Howie, TKP Interview I wrote a 500 word post Friday night about what I was going to do, read it and tucked it away in the drafts folder. I won’t write about what I’m going to do, I’m just…
It seems I don’t meet the criteria for high risk with COVID-19. That’s a blessing isn’t it? Or is it a curse? Depends on how you feel I suppose. Personally I feel fine, outside of some lung irritation that’s either allergies flaring up or the virus that dominates our lives. Who knows? Maybe if our…
This might go down as my favorite year of reading. I made it a goal to read more the last two years, and the momentum from 2018 definitely carried over into 2019. Reading inspired my travel to new places and offered side trips of meaning in places I’ve been many times before. It kicked me…