Ever have a serious moment where you realize you may be dead wrong?

biggest mistakes
the highest hand up is ours, he’s 12

 

I could be making one of the biggest mistakes of my life – and missing an incredible Family opportunity – based on traditional, long-held paradigms.

Yesterday I wondered if Boy Scouts is the best way to teach our son confidence using the outdoors and citizenship as the classroom.

Why wouldn’t it be? That’s how I, and countless others, accomplished it as young adults.

And then I asked, why?

(tomorrow)…

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The paradox of a simple question that is hidden from most humans

meaning of life
we have bus loads of questions in life, there are only a handful of answers that matter

 

Life is full of questions. Some easy, some difficult. Some complex, some simple.

I have found the simplest questions are also the most challenging to answer… until they’re not.

If we relentlessly dog the question, it will eventually tire, and we will catch it and discover an astonishingly simple answer.

And our lives will never again be the same.

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The amazing paradox of effort in tackling our biggest demon

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writing provides a comprehensive enlightenment that no other activity can touch

First of all, Happy Saturday. New Year’s Eve is two days away, the world’s biggest party night. It transcends nationality, religious, age, and ethnic differences.

This leads us to thinking seriously, or ignoring completely, New Year’s resolutions. The amazing paradox of effort in tackling our biggest demons is that effort and reward are almost always directly proportional.

Work life balance involves our holistic commitment to five simple themes and it’s surprising how few of us have the guts and determination to focus on this correlation by clicking through to the Next Blog (our “physical health” blog)

 

Two huge reasons why should we do everything differently

Two innocent photos taken while up on the roof the other day…

doing things differently

Doing things differently usually doesn’t require much…but the difference is striking…

doing things differently

Two huge reasons why we should do everything differently:

  1. Nothing new is discovered doing it the normal way
  2. How do you teach a child wisdom, without experiencing both sides?

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Was Elvis the ultimate failure?

Elvis - the ultimate failure?
Elvis - the ultimate failure?
Jack - the ultimate success?
Jack - the ultimate success?

Traveling through Memphis yesterday and remembering when Elvis was king of rock and roll, a famous movie star, and quite literally, a world icon.

Near the end of his life something happened. And I wonder if it had anything to do with the price success plays on our perception of reality and our humble place in the world.

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