I’m not interested in earning my fire safety badge and I don’t always come prepared. Sometimes I take too much for granted and I have to scramble to get things done. While the end result may differ from my goal at the outset, I usually come out with something better than I had originally planned. Last night was an example of that.…
Category: Personal Growth
Stepping Out
When I was 13 I read Mike Lupica’s Summer Ball cover to cover in less than four hours, and then I read it again. This is something that has been a trend in my life. When I find something enjoyable I fully immerse myself in it and ignore everything else around me. I’ll reread books because it’s safe. Every time I pick up a book I’ve read…
What Have I Become?
The Denver Broncos, my childhood team and greatest love in the sporting world, played against the most dastardly and evil franchise in sports yesterday, the New England Patriots. This has always been the game I circle on the calendar. The chance to wear my heart on the orange and blue sleeves of the jerseys that I grew up in. It…
Freedom
Freedom was never something I had to question. It’s strange, but I never wanted to rebel. At least not in the way some of my friends did. Rebelling, for me, is finding my way in the professional world while bucking the traditional college route. Growing up homeschooled had a huge affect on me. Rather than being stuck behind a desk for…
Halfway There
Seeing as how this is the halfway point of my 31-day blogging challenge. I thought I would go over some of the lessons I’ve learned up to this point. Fear can be a great motivator. When I started this project there was nothing that scared me more than staring at a blank screen and having to fill it with words. I knew…
Deliberate Practice
Malcolm Gladwell says it takes roughly 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to achieve mastery in a field. I want to see how far one week of deliberate practice will take me. I’m ready to overcome the fear I have of talking to a camera. I hate not being able to read body language or have someone to bounce ideas off of…
Overthinking It
I’ve shortchanged and sabotaged myself more times recently than I care to admit. All because I have a tendency to overthink things. My best golf is played when I pick a target and hit the ball—no messing around trying to select between different clubs. I pick the one I want and let feel take over, not bothering to think about whether I’m…
When Nothing Works
There are days when nothing works. You can’t put two and two together and make four. You can take the easy way out and put it off until your muse returns. I choose to press onward, banging my head against the wall until it begins to crumble. Cracks appear and the light of inspiration shines through. I notice, standing there…
Shifting Gears
I’m driving down the highway, the mile markers flying by at regular intervals, passing cars on the left. The fundamentals of driving take a backseat in my mind. It’s all become instinctual. Left foot on the clutch, downshift into fourth to get past this guy, alright, shift back to fifth, there, high beams back on. All of it, unconscious, like breathing. My…
Winter is Coming
With a winter advisory warning coming for the Northeast, it’s time to take care of those tasks that have been put off for far too long. Starting with Ol’ Red, the snow blower from the 1990’s. Older than me, the beast is always a treat to operate. Pushing it up the mountain we call a driveway will get you in shape faster than P90X, CrossFit,…