lifestyle
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Good News, Bad News
My day job, or my Clark Kent life as I have taken to calling in recently, can be pretty rad sometimes. One of the coolest things about is that I get the opportunity to travel all over the country (and occasionally internationally) and experience different parts of this world that we live in. Paired with… Continue reading
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Anticipation
The anticipation of discomfort is always worse than the thing itself. I first heard that from Kelly Starrett a couple years ago, and it’s been a recurring thought, living rent free in my own head ever since. The anticipation of discomfort is ALWAYS worse than the thing itself. Let that sink in for a minute. And now… Continue reading
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Public Eye
“Those of us who are writers work out our stuff in public, even under the guise of pretending to write about someone else. In other words, we try to teach what it is that we really need to learn.” The Second Mountain by David Brooks I started a new book recently, The Second Mountain by David… Continue reading
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Disaster
Tell me if this sounds familiar. Everything is going great. Your job is more than manageable, it’s going strangely well, not extra stressful, and everything you do seems to land just right. Your relationships are firing on all cylinders, you and your partner are clicking in a way that you never have before. You physically… Continue reading
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Love. Not Fear.
“I realized that I was walking the trail to complete it. Not to experience it.” A few weeks ago a friend was telling me about a hike he went on and the realization he had a ways in. I’d been on that hike, both metaphorically and literally. I can look back at so many actions… Continue reading
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Lies
“Think warm thoughts. Think warm thoughts. Think warm thoughts.” I still remember my offensive line coach in 9th grade, walking up and down the sidelines, chanting (screaming) at us. It was the end of the season and below freezing. And here was this man, a former Olympic bobsledder, coaching us, in his way, through a… Continue reading
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The Grind
To grind is to reduce something to small particles or powder by crushing it. Think of all the things in your life that grinding is a part of. You grind coffee beans so that you can make your life giving morning brew. You grind peppercorns or sea salt crystals to season food. You grind herbs… Continue reading
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Buckets
Work-life balance is the unsustainable pipe dream of people who are too cowardly to acknowledge where their true priority lies. Balance itself is a thing that’s not practical outside of athletics like gymnastics and skateboarding. The pursuit of balance in our life, work-life balance, balancing caring for ourselves and maintaining our relationships, balance between spending… Continue reading
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Excellence
“We are what we repeatedly do, therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle Anybody that’s lifted weights long enough knows that you never wake up one day, look at yourself in the mirror and go, “Oops, I made muscles.” Athletes don’t get to the pro-level by accident. Artists don’t open galleries… Continue reading
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Do It For You
Early on, right after I first started working with one of my mentors, I remember him saying to me, “I care about your success. I care about you achieving your goals and realizing your dreams. But I shouldn’t care more about it than you do.” It’s a phrase that both took a while to fully… Continue reading
About Me
Writer | Fitness enthusiast | Comic book lover | Helping others find their path in life