Intend and love what is I’m salmon fishing on the Kenai River in Alaska. My intention is to catch a lot of fish. And then we also have to deal with what life brings us. Sometimes there aren’t many fish moving up river. Sometimes fish get away. I’ve fished many more hours today than I […]
(dis) R…E…S…P…E…C…T
August 6, 2016 by Leave a Comment
(dis) R…E…S…P…E…C…T There are two flavors of upset: you hurt my feelings and you dissed me ~ disrespected, dishonored, disapproved, discounted, disregarded, devalued, wasted my time, disloyal. This Dose addresses being dissed. Being dissed usually creates resentment and anger. It can also easily lead to a decrease of action and a “why bother” attitude. We […]
It isn’t about choosing between hard and easy
August 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
It isn’t about choosing between hard and easy Because people typically look at things from a very short term view point, they often think that the choice is between hard and easy. And then, people are inclined to choose easy. But when we expand that view point, we see that the choice is between hard […]
Puncture wounds
July 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Puncture wounds This year for the first time, they mulched the trees around the sand volleyball courts with wood chips. Of course the kids bring the wood chips into the sand. So every time that I play, I clear wood chips out of the sand. On Saturday I gave a handful of rescued wood chips […]
Circus expectations
July 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Circus expectations We saw Toruk by Cirque Du Soleil this evening. Toruk trades the breathtaking acrobatics of every other Cirque Du Soleil performance that I’ve seen for breathtaking special effects and set design. Toruk was almost like a play with some acrobatics thrown in. Based on my previous experiences, it was not at all what […]
The Other Shoe Meets Rube Goldberg
July 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The Other Shoe Meets Rube Goldberg There’s a common bit of head trash about waiting for the other shoe to fall (expecting that something bad will happen). If you happen to suffer from this bit of head trash, here are two ways that you can twist it to your benefit. What if the other shoe […]
Deer Conversations
July 6, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Memories
July 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Memories Anne and I attended Sweet & Lucky earlier tonight (Denver Center for the Performing Arts largest immersive show to date). The performance’s theme is memory and memories. From the playbill, “Our memories shape who we are. There are moments that we want to remember forever, and those we cannot seem to forget. As we […]
Top 3 qualities of an Entrepreneur
July 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Wise Advice
June 27, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Wise Advice I heard Dr James Jackson speak tonight. He is an author, speaker, humanitarian, cultural economist, and the founder of www.projectcure.org. His father taught him and his brothers to “take what you have and turn it into what you want.” This advice launched him on a fabulously successful entrepreneurial career. However, this advice will not work […]
