by Shawn | Feb 9, 2019 | Discipline, Habits, Personal growth, Self-Care
We all know what it looks like when a totalitarian regime takes over a country. We’ve seen pictures of Nazi Germany, Communist China, the Soviet Union – soldiers marching in lockstep, human beings in abject poverty, piles and piles of bodies from genocidal...
by Admin | Feb 2, 2019 | Personal growth, Self-Care
My wife and I joined a gym that kicks off its membership with a six-week challenge to lose 20 pounds and get a refund of the cost of the six-week challenge. Neither one of us hit the 20-pound goal, but we did lose 17 pounds and we both felt great at the end of the...
by Shawn | Jan 26, 2019 | Discipline, Personal growth, Self-Care
I’ve never been a big routine guy; I would much rather spend my days doing exactly what I want when I want, and not doing anything I don’t actually want to do. But I’ve discovered that this kind of living doesn’t add up to much over time; sure, I’ve had fits and...
by Shawn | Jan 19, 2019 | Encouragement
Even if you’ve never done it before. Even if you’re scared shitless. Even if you have no experience. Even if you think you’ll look like a fool. Even if you have no idea how it will end. Even if you think you can’t afford it. Even if you think it’s...
by Shawn | Jan 12, 2019 | Discipline, Personal growth, Self-Care
No, I’m not talking about weed, which has at times had a positive, and other times, a profoundly negative, impact on my life – but that is a topic for a different blog post on a different day. I’m talking about the time of day that my alarm goes off so I can get...
by Shawn | Jan 5, 2019 | Discipline, Good news bad news, Personal growth
“The best things in life are free.” We’ve all hear it said a thousand times. It’s been sung by Janet Jackson & Luther Vandross together, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby separately, and Coco Chanel famously said it, followed by “the...
by Shawn | Dec 29, 2018 | Discipline, Good news bad news, Personal growth
I just had my first child at 45. His birth has brought into stark relief the necessity for getting my body in shape, my finances handled, and setting myself up for long-term success. I want to be able to keep up with him as he grows, to wrestle with him and play and...
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