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Kicking the Can Down the Street
Life is about action. It’s that simple, yet that hard. If you want big change, it starts with little things. We as humans have a natural desire to take the path of least resistance. Our innate reaction is to choose immediate pleasure over any kind of uncomfortableness. Rather than make our bed right now, we’d…
Read MorePersonal Development
originally published 5/2019 The key to a better life is through a better you. Personal development is a lifelong journey. My experience has been that compensation is highly correlated with personal development. Great people do great things. Sure, sometimes people get rich without the work, but it’s a short term inefficiency that is usually short…
Read MoreWhere’s Your Focus?
The power of thought is our greatest asset, or our greatest liability. It’s not what happens to us in life that dictates the kind of life we’ll live, its how we handle those things that happen to us, and how we handle these things depends on how we think about these things. The only…
Read MoreComparison
Comparison is an ugly thing that feeds the wrong one within us. It comes in many forms; gossip, sarcasm, materialism, and just good old “one-upping”, to name a few. It is a futile game with no winners. Once “we win”, we seek the next person or thing to compare ourselves to, finding ourselves in the…
Read MoreDreams
In no other time in history has it been easier to let our lives run us, rather than us run our lives. We get so caught up with making a living, that we forget about making our life. We don’t just not make time to set goals anymore, we don’t even make time to…
Read MoreThe Right Field Fence
The life we are living between our ears can be vastly different than the one we are actually living. I remember one time in college, our baseball coach set up a camera in the left field parking garage. He had one of the assistants focus on just one player for an entire practice, following him…
Read MoreAwareness and Control
LIVING SIMPLE Weekly thoughts from the forklift…(originally published in Jan 2019) We might not be able to control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we feel about the things that happen to us. The late Senator John McCain came to see me while I was recovering from my climbing accident years ago, he shared…
Read MorePersonal Development
The key to a better life is through a better you. Personal development is a lifelong journey. My experience has been that compensation is highly correlated with personal development. Great people do great things. Sure, sometimes people get rich without the work, but it’s a short term inefficiency that is usually short lived. Wealthy people…
Read MoreState of Mind
KLARITY LIFESTYLE CO – SIMPLE LIVING Weekly thoughts from the forklift… ….originally published December 2018 How do people get off track? How does someone become a workaholic? Go from grace to an addict? Become an over-eater? We weren’t born this way right? Well, somewhere along the way we forgot that we were in control of…
Read MoreTake ownership and regain your power…
Originally published in 2018, while walking the Camino de Santiago. Please excuse the grammatical errors. As a 22 year kid, I was secure and confident. Life so far had been full of success, the attitude of “if its going to happen its up to me” was ingrained into me through my youth. My efforts were…
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