A couple of Fridays ago, my parents took the kids for an overnight trip which meant Devon and I planned a nice night out. It began with car shopping for her, since her car has been on its last leg for a while. We went over to see our friend and NS client, Andrew, who did a fantastic job. He’s a true pro at what he does. And, as being natural for me, I was more interested in the sales process and the business systems that they use over at his dealership. It wasn’t long befor

Way back in 366 BC, when Socrates was being tried by the government, he famously said, ‘The unexamined life isn’t worth living’. He was a free thinker, refusing to accept dogma and orthodoxy just for the sake of it. He decided to off himself with poison rather than becoming a ‘good little zombie citizen’. Examine and question your flaws, your shortcomings and your different roles in life. It makes life a lot more challenging, but that’s the name of the game. Growth. Or you c

16 years ago, I began studying marketing. I fell in love with it, just about as much as I fell in love with strength training. I actually have a lot more books and resources on marketing than training. Imagine that. Anyways, even though I love it, I can’t devote as much attention as I need to towards it with all the other aspects of Newell Strength that I am currently investing my attention in. In life, where your attention goes, energy flows and results will follow. What t

A week and a half ago, Devon and I had our second at home date night with the kids in the house. We set the kids up with ‘kids’ night downstairs with a kids movie, popcorn, candy and the like. They seem to like ‘date night’ as much as us. It was my time to plan this go around and I decided to go with a breakfast theme. Which meant that part of the night was watching the Breakfast Club, one of my favorites and one that Devon had never seen in full. In the movie, you have 5 tot

25 years ago, basketball rose to the forefront of my mind as my favorite sport to play. At that time, I was a good athlete in multiple sports. Yet, I got this itch that basketball was the way to go for me. In hindsight, maybe I should have stuck it out with the other sports too, but who knows, my path is my path. I still play, in fact, I just played this past weekend. One of the things that I have always loved about basketball besides the multitude of ways that I could apply