What Mark are you making in the world? What Mark are you making in your family?
We all have the privilege, opportunity, and even responsibility to make a mark in the world and in the lives of others.
Interestingly, we are alw...
"Just because you've been with yourself for your entire life, doesn't mean you understand yourself." This is true about your spouse too. Just because you've been married to them for ___ years, doesn't mean you understand them...
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#148 What Wives Need to Understand About Their Husbands' Sex Drive, and What Men Need to Understand About Themselves
Every day we have a choice. In fact we have many choice moments throughout the day. Choose to be a champion, or by default we can choose to be a chump.
The champion chooses to do things in a great way, even the little things...
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#147 Choose To Be a Champion, Even In The Little Things.
We all have little corners in our lives where the dust and the dirt and the stuff begin to gather. This is both literal and figurative.

It may be the corner of your closet or your garage, or the corners of your mind or your ...
While I was climbing a big peek in Ecuador with my wife we met a man who we quickly connected with. In just a few minutes he told us the short version of his life story and how he totally transformed his life.
His story is p...
Failure hurts. A lot. It’s not some thing any of us want to do, but I think it’s something we all need to do.
We attempted to Summit Orizaba and failed. Epic story. But in that failure were many successes—if we look for them...
If you’re on the right path and it’s the appropriate time for you, find a way to make it work or make a way to make it work!
Too many of us give up too often and too soon. We give a first attempt or maybe a feeble second and...
Formidable
-very strong, especially in character; producing respect and a little fear in others:
-Worthy of respect
- tending to inspire awe or admiration because of great size, strength, excellence, etc.
-If you describe...
Serendipity: the Occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way
I believe that God and the universe are conspiring in your favor and are presenting wonderful opportunities to you all the time! Bu...
What is the greatest tragedy in life? If we look at the whole picture of life, it seems to me that the greatest tragedy is when an amazing human being fails to live a life that is meaningful, fulfilling and maximized. Each pe...
“The second most deadly instrument of destruction is the dynamite gun; the first is the human tongue. The gun merely kills; the tongue kills reputations and, ofttimes, ruins characters. Each gun works alone; each loaded tongu...
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#135 Your Word Reputation—Making Your Words Matter
Every single day I condition myself to be at my best!
I recently asked a friend how often he hast to tune his musical instrument. “Every time I pick it up.“
The same is true for you and me. Your mind is your instrument. You...
Are you living an expanding life? Or perhaps a shrinking one? Are you growing, improving, progressing, and really living? Are you moving at a pace that makes you feel alive? Or do you feel like you’re just existing, or merely...
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired ...
Every person I have ever met wants more freedom! We were born to be free. We were created for freedom. Freedom from guilt, pain, poor health, debt, addiction. We want money freedom and time freedom. We long to be free enough ...
There are two ways to experience life. You can let it happen to you or you can make it happen for you.
For most people, the only things that happen in their lives are the things that happened to them. They live like puppets,...
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#126 Letting life happen TO you or making it happen FOR you
Do we have to have trials in life? Do challenges make us stronger? What if we could choose our challenges and trials? Is that even possible?!
What if we told you that there is a way to avoid trials and embrace challenges tha...
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#125 How to Choose Your Trials And Challenges w/Rachel Denning
What do you do when life gets crazy? What will you do when life gets crazier? The answer is that we all fall back to our training! Archilochus said, “we do not rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of ou...
Winning requires a different set of skills and a different mindset! Anyone can show up to play or to participate, but if you want to win you have to think and act differently. You have to be more strategic!
And so we must as...
Are you progressing? Really progressing? We are made to move! We are created to create! When we are not moving, creating, progressing we feel empty and blah. And we feel that way if we are not moving at the right pace. We hav...
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#121 Progress IS Happiness. Happiness is progress.
We all have a relationship with ourselves. Sometimes we like ourselves and sometimes we don’t. There may even be parts of us that we like and parts that we don’t. But there is a simple formula to liking yourself more and for ...
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#119 How to like yourself For the rest of your life
Imagine losing your ability to speak.
Many good people are going through life without discovering and cultivating their unique voice, the special message they want to share with the world. This could be your life purpose, y...
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#118 Finding your life purpose, (& possibly business)
Most of us are just too stoppable. We stop at every obstacle, every inconvenience, every time we get uncomfortable, or every time we doubt ourselves.
We make excuses, we justify, we rationalize, we tell ourselves stories abo...
Today my teenage boys and I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit two different elderly women who are living on their own. What a privilege! We were so fortunate to sit and bask in their life stories, their unique lifelo...
