Learning

The Hardest Part is Starting
Transcript: Three years ago this summer, we went on an adventure. My friend Hobbit and Erich, we got together and we took our four teenagers and we flew to Seattle, Washington with our bicycles and we unpacked our bicycles on the front lawn of our friend, Jason and Jorji’s house, and we assembled them and ...

Growth After Crisis Is Possible
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning. —Viktor Frankl Most people say they don’t like adversity. If you ask, many of us would say that this Covid19 situation, right now, sucks. And the last thing we want to hear is, “You’ll grow from this.” Please. Don’t start ...

Raising Your Resiliency – Start Small
Things are sideways right now. We know. It won’t last forever, it’s not someone’s fault and you can make a difference in someone’s life each and every day simply in how you show up with discipline and faith that we will endure and see each other through. To help us work through this strange time, ...

Gratitude Is Not About the Past. It Guides Our Future.
We think gratitude is about the past. It’s not. Gratitude feels like an emotion in which we reflect on a past event, or previous moment, or sometimes a specific person, and what they did for us or how they made us feel. We think about that past place and time and person and feel a ...

Win or Lose. Never Stop Learning.
The USWNT is exactly as unapologetically spectacular, or arrogant, as you perceive them to be. If you find team captain Rapinoe to be brash and cocky then you can find lots of articles out there that might agree with you. And if instead, you find her and the U.S. Women’s team to be confident, cohesive, ...

A More Powerful Way to Build Habits
I’m trying to play more guitar. So I took the guitar out of the closet, tuned it up, and keep it by my desk, within reach. It works. I play more. It’s a small, simple habit stack that helps me achieve a small goal. But what about longer term goals, bigger goals – the kind ...