The Most Difficult Thing in the World
About a week and a half ago, one of my long-time friends came over to shoot the breeze and chat about life. Our conversation was centered around the ability to focus. Focus is such a simple word and such a simple concept, yet it is so very difficult to maintain. Anyone can focus for an hour or a day on something they are very excited about, but what happens when that excitement wears off? The focus goes out the window. Novelty is the biggest turn on for the brain, so once the
Absolute Relativity
There is the absolute reality. Then there is the relative reality. They are both real. Your reality is your world. But your reality is not all that exists in the world. Your time here is finite, but your impact might live on for ages. You might be relatively strong in the gym, bench pressing 300 pounds. But is that all that’s possible? I’d say not, the world record is absolutely a few multiples of that. We live in a physical world that is a mental creation (I’ll let you pon
Give Thanks You Turkey
If you are reading this on Thanksgiving, then we’ve already had our annual Thanksgiving morning workout. It's a morning I always look forward to, full of fun, positive energy and love. And despite these ‘weird’ times we are living in, we have much to be grateful for. Use the force of negativity that the MSM and social media bombard you with to access the power of gratitude and love. At the very least, those mediums can open the door for you to look at something else, to focus
Have You Ever Rode in the Rain?
2 weeks ago, it was Wednesday. Indeed it was. And on Wednesdays, I am on dad duty. It’s a nice change up for us all. Part of our normal routine is to go for a nice bike ride, stop at a playground, play, then ride back. Brax zooms off on his dirt bike or racing bicycle and I ride with Emma and Tank in ‘bumblebee’, their little cart behind my bike. Well, on this particularly day, it was raining pretty good out, but we didn’t let that stop us. My initial gut instinct was to f
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