Travel

It’s natural to think about ourselves all day long but rarely helpful to do so. Whether our ego is inflated or deflated, self obsession blurs our vision, preventing us from clearly seeing the world around us. To those self obsessing with a inflated ego: It’s great to be proud of yourself and your accomplishments. Don’t…

Jim Rohn has a great quote “don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.” I love this quote, and would extend it to “don’t wish it was easier, make yourself better”. It’s a call to action to improve yourself in response to that obstacle you’re coming across. You don’t have to just wish you…

I’m not a great writer. WRONG. I’m not a great writer YET. My chances improve every day that I put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). If you are committed to something and you aren’t where you want to be yet, don’t condemn yourself. You’re just not there yet. Keep working and you’ll get…

Failure isn’t not being accepted onto the team, failure is not showing up for tryouts. We let fear hold us back from trying new things, telling ourselves if we don’t succeed we’re failures. Fear lies. Failure is to success as an empty glass is to a full one. Filling it halfway isn’t failure – it’s…

Someday doesn’t come after Saturday or Sunday. It isn’t coming at all. Start doing what you love today. Take a small step towards what you’ve always dreamed of. Or towards fixing something broken. You’ll thank yourself when you look back at this day that you got started. Someday isn’t real. Today is. We don’t need…

In the Spring of 2019 I traveled for two weeks around Eastern Europe. It was a last minute trip, as I was about to max out my vacation accrual at the public accounting firm I worked at. I’m not much of a travel planner, but fortunately my sister-in-law Veronica is, and she set me up…