Category: Personal Growth

  • Maxim #4: Future You Is Calling…

    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…


  • Maxim #3: Win the Morning, Win the Day

    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…


  • I Believe Things That Aren’t True

    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…


  • What I Read in August

    Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards (Non-Fiction) — I saw her interview on Craig Groeschel’s podcast, watched several of her YouTube videos, then watched both of her interviews on the Diary…


  • Maxim #2: Do Hard Things

    I don’t like hard things. I like easy things. Seriously. I am someone who naturally values comfort and ease. That is true physically, relationally, commercially, whatever. I just want things…


  • Maxim #1: Discipline Equals Freedom

    One of the first and most important to me, I learned “Disciple Equals Freedom” from Jocko Willink, retired Navy SEAL, author, speaker, business owner and all-around rock star. It is…


  • Daily Motivation

    This is a picture of the current version of my maxim card. It is something I look at each day, sometimes multiple times, to remind me of maxims I want…


  • Discipline & Grace

    I want to be a disciplined person. On the whole, I often am. I have morning routines and evening routines that I follow. Habits that I have developed. They were…


  • A Bad Day Working Out is Better Than No Day Working Out

    This principle applies whether it is working out, writing, studying, or [insert your desired habit]. I am not sure if I got the phrase from James Clear and Atomic Habits,…


  • What I Read in July

    How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu This is a fiction book about a global pandemic. It spans generations. Each chapter moves further along the timeline and…


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