In his latest post, Jonathan Fields talks about you and your gear.Read it here: http://www.jonathanfields.com/the-killer-app-is-you/ Your gear is not what makes you special. Your gear is not what makes you able to do what you do. Sure there are times when a little function on a camera lets you do something special or those skis … Read more
Photo by beeki I work in an IT office where we talk about maintenance, service level and projects a lot. Like, all day sometimes. Maintenance is the work you do on an ongoing basis. It doesn’t change much, it can be repetitive. It’s basically keeping the lights on and the email running. Service level is … Read more
Strongman Training by thereeljames It’s Thanksgiving in Canada today. I’m going to add my 2 cents to the slew of other blog posts that probably came out today about what I’m thankful for. Everyone writes about that on Thanksgiving. I guess there’s a reason for that. I’m always thankful for my friends and family and … Read more
Photo by PublicDomainPictures Being intentional is one of the best ways to make your life meaningful, satisfying and have impact. If we drift around, letting life, friends and family make all our decisions for us, we probably have an easy life but not one full of meaning. By choosing our friends, our work, our hobbies … Read more
At the World Domination Summit in Portland this year, Michael Hyatt took the stage and told some stories about his alcoholic father. The stories started out depressing but he got to his main point: his father was drifting through life.Michael couldn’t handle the thought of doing the same himself and so set himself on a path … Read more
Resolutions? Ick.January is a time for resolutions. I’ve always hated resolutions, but not because they aren’t a challenge or they don’t make your life better or they aren’t fun. Resolutions just seem to have such negative connotations for most people. Making a commitment at the beginning of the year to make your life better in … Read more
It’s done!It was actually done in September 2 years ago but I pushed the post aside and totally got distracted with other things.My buddy, Ryan and I competed as a two person team in the Cumberland Momar September 2010. We did the Enduro course that was 50km long. There was a 10km kayak, 15km of running and … Read more
This #trust30 post is about the long prompt by Matt Cheuvront.Matt dares us to be bold. To get out of the flow of normal society and do something you’ve always dreamed about doing. You have to forget “being realistic” and start to move the other direction. The crazy one, the childish one, the mad one, … Read more
I started writing with the #Trust30 group on May 31st. It’s a fantastic initiative to get things moving when you’re blogging and really make you think about what you’re doing with your life. Even if you don’t want to blog about them, you can write them out in a journal or just spend a day … Read more
2010 was a great year. I learned a lot. A lot went well.That said, I felt like I didn’t have much direction. It was fun trying to get involved with everything that came along but in doing that I was stretching myself thin over what I was already doing. Overall the year felt like I … Read more