Zen Warrior Class

If you can get through doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness.” ~David Goggins I woke up this morning with the usual pain I endure on a regular basis. This time it was prominent in my foot, no doubt Plantar Fasciitis flaring up again, as my wife usually diagnosis…

Our soul is sometimes a king, and sometimes a tyrant. A king, by attending to what is honorable, protects the good health of the body in its care, and gives it no base or sordid command. But an uncontrolled, desire-fueled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king into that most feared and detested thing –…

The image of the Zen philosopher is the monk up in the green, quiet hills, or in a beautiful temple on some rocky cliff. The Stoics are the antithesis of this idea. Instead, they are the man in the marketplace, the senator in the Forum, the brave wife waiting for her soldier to return from…

Maybe it was time to think of happiness as something that I had gained and could never lose. It wasn’t something that I had to re-win over and over again.” ~Tom DeBlass, “How You Bear It” I just finished Professor Tom DeBlass’ book, How You Bear It, and I’m glad I made it through this…

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~T.S. Eliot Disclaimer up front, if you thought you were going to get a hunter-fisherman fix clicking on this reflection, I apologize in advance. The theme of this week’s reflection is centric around the number of events going…

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~Aristotle It doesn’t matter how much you know if no one else wants to listen to you. I learned a lot about patience and expectation management this week. A lot of the lessons I learned can be found in the…

You all running away from the obstacle when it’s the obstacle that will take you to the next level. ~Dr. Eric Thomas The conceptual planning phase is over. I know what needs to be done. I defined the problem, and identified the operational variables that will impact the desired outcome. Now it’s time to move…

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.” ~Tom Waits Unicornomics: The Foundational First 15%, 2019, p. 15 It’s 5:30 a.m. Central European Time when our plane touches the tarmac at Frankfurt International Airport in Germany. We push through customs, grab our baggage, retrieve our car, and make our way home to…

So no kidding, there we were, a day away from a family vacation to Paris, France for the long Thanksgiving weekend. We were going to stay at the Novotel in downtown Paris and were planning to get the kids to the pool shortly after arrival then I received my COVID-19 Test results … COVID Detected.…

I’ve often looked at life with a scarcity mentality and didn’t even know it. There are a million reasons to look at your current circumstance with a glass half empty lens, but it will not get you anywhere. As a matter of fact it will inhibit your ability to not only be grateful for what…