Marathon Training Check-in #2

Marathon Training Check-in #2

The Eugene Marathon is in less than 9 weeks. My training since the last update has gone about as well as I could have imagined with my last 5 weeks’ mileage being 68, 68, 70, 70, 69; remarkable consistence. My long run workout last week was a 20 miler with a 15...
Trump Reins Over Thee

Trump Reins Over Thee

Here You Go…Man At :45 seconds of this clip, Donald has one of the best interactions with another human being I’ve ever seen. That time when Donald Trump tried working normal jobs at his own hotel pic.twitter.com/g2iluhJeZj — Historic Vids...
A Commitment to Meditating

A Commitment to Meditating

“The most shocking thing when I started meditating was being given the simple exercise to observe my breath coming in and out of the nostrils, not controlling it, just observing it, and I couldn’t do it for more than 10 seconds. For 10 seconds I would try...
Slow Talking

Slow Talking

I’ve been experimenting with talking reeeeaaaaaaallllll slow. That’s clearly an exaggeration, but the idea is that that the speed you talk has a lot to with how people perceive you. To break down the benefits of talking slow: You force people to listen to...
Life Comes At You Fast

Life Comes At You Fast

I was reading how to cook a steak in a pan. Not riveting material. At the same time, I was crossing Spring Garden which is a 4 lane road. There were two guys who were 11 paces ahead of me traversing safely. My head was down like a mindless peon and I was going on...
A New Stage of Life

A New Stage of Life

I wrote a post about 10 years ago with the following thesis: The stage of life that you’re in is the stage of life that you want to be in. I don’t know what was going on in my life for me to make such a profound statement, but in the 10 years since writing...