by Scott A Stonehouse | Sep 22, 2025 | Maxims, Personal Growth
This maxim is another soundtrack I heard from Jon Acuff. I love it. It can be applied to so many different things: Working out. Playing the guitar. Learning to juggle. Writing. Whatever goal you want to accomplish, habit you want to establish, or skill you want to...
by Scott A Stonehouse | Sep 18, 2025 | Maxims, Personal Growth
On the bottom of my habit tracker card (you can see an image on this post) are the letters MTET, which stand for Make Tomorrow Easy Today. It reminds me to take a few minutes and think about tomorrow and ask, “What can I do today to make tomorrow easier?”...
by Scott A Stonehouse | Sep 15, 2025 | Personal Growth
Who is the richest man you know? It might be me, if you know me. I can have bad days. I can get discouraged and frustrated. I can look around and see all the craziness and evil in the world and get overwhelmed like anyone else. But most of the time? Most of the time I...
by Scott A Stonehouse | Sep 8, 2025 | Habits, Maxims, Personal Growth
Would you like to be able to tell Younger You a few things? Warn them of some mistakes? Encourage them to take some risks? Kick them in the pants? Give them a hug? All of the above? Is Current You more understanding and gracious of Younger You? Has a little distance...
by Scott A Stonehouse | Sep 4, 2025 | Maxims, Personal Growth
At zero dark thirty this morning, I was out doing a 4 mile ruck with 30 lbs. on my back. It was close to 6 am when I was coming back to the house and I felt tired, but great. I remembered an old US Army commercial that said, “We do more before 9 am than most...
by Scott A Stonehouse | Sep 2, 2025 | Christianity, Personal Growth
I believe things that aren’t true. I know I do. I am sure of it. If nothing else, it is a matter of the odds. I have thousands upon thousands (millions?) of beliefs about lots of different things. Surely I am wrong about some of them, right? The problem is that...
