Category: Growth
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Day 5
To help ring out the year and to get a jump on the next my soon to be wife and I are doing #75 Hard. It is day 5 and I am tired, sore and loving every minute of it. I’m understanding the statement “embrace the suck” considering I was hardly working out prior to…
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Love and marriage love and marriage…
It’s T- about 6 hours till the civil union and I find myself reflecting on a few things. The first and foremost is just how different life has turned out for me than what I was told I would amount to (which was south of 0 according to some members of the family). I have…
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Lonely at the top?
I was listening to a podcast the other day talking about the process of leveling up your life. Real AF is the podcast in question. The host noted two things, that the process of becoming the 2.0 version of yourself if you will leaves you in a middle ground as your old friends leave and…
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The changing of the seasons
Today is an odd one. School starts again next week, no one is in the office and I struggle to get anything off my plate. In short I feel off and I am not sure what will help. It’s an odd feeling, like I’m a couple of degrees off center. But I can’t explain why…
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For love of a good woman
So I broke an old vow of mine last week, one that remained from my childhood. I swore early and often that I would never wed. Be it misguided nuance or a real sort of fear it is hard to state how unfair marriage is for men in the US. The deck is stacked against…
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Will you revive from the chaos in my mind?
Seems I struck a cord with myself in the previous post. After a conversation with a bearded badass regarding the last post got me thinking a bit more in depth. Then I heard this lyric and something shifted in my mind. As we grow we look towards our elders for many things. Our parents we…
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The Tao of Hard Things
In about a week I will be starting 75 Hard. For those that do not know it is a mental and physical challenge lasting 75 days consisting of the following tasks: If you fail any of these tasks for the day you start over on day 1. That is the Hard in 75 Hard, no…
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Post Maine Reflection
It has been about a month since the Maine Event and I thought I would take a moment and reflect. The month afterwards was a bit crazy, with Cyber Security Awareness Month being in full effect at work and my recovering from a nasty cold turned sinus infection I didn’t really get to sit down…
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Signed and Sealed in Blood
Today is a Murphys sort of day, Rose Tattoo currently playing. I am considering my next piece of ink, debating between a couple of options. It caused me to pause and reflect back upon my previous works and the how and why of each piece. I won’t go into all the details as some are…
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Youth and Lies
A thought was posted to my men’s group this week that spurred some conversation. I thought it might be fitting it include it here as well. The question I posed is simple, what are the lies that you have told yourself since when that you used to explain bad or unfortunate things that happened in…
The Half-assed Taoist 