I’m an Adult… FINALLY! In today’s broadcast, I share my experience and experiment in finding a personal doctor. I haven’t seen a doctor in over 10 years. What can I say, I’m a healthy bastard. Or am I just stubborn? Well, I finally broke down and signed up for an experimental business model, but one that looks promising simply because I pay out of pocket and my...
[smart_track_player url=”; title=”New Domain & Learning Bitcoin” ] Welcome to my new and improved website! Well not so new, but the domain is fancy! Am I right? I now have a new goal with this site and will be taking imperfect action to accomplish this goal. I will be podcasting/vlogging 2-3 times a week. The production will be less than ideal, but along the way, I will...
I have my girls repeat this when they’re stuck in the blame game and not actually finding solutions. We find possible solutions. Get to the ROOT cause of the problem and offer options, possible scenarios to take, & weigh the pros and cons. Are we looking at the problem objectively or subjectively? What can we do to take the emotion out and actually work towards an outcome both (or any...
I told this to my daughter as we were discussing lessons from the chapter she was reading in “The Obstacle is the Way” by Ryan Holiday. In this chapter the author hammers the point of always maintaining power while living life and running across obstacles. Shit happens. Good and bad. Some even tragic. Yet, we always have a choice in those instances. Some of our greatest challenges...
A PARENTING STORY: THE RULE OF 3 (How Not to Be Annoying) My girls were getting older. They were talking a lot about a lot and obviously annoying each other a lot. And as you can imagine; repeating themselves all the time. I caught myself telling them to chill out and stop being annoying. You don’t want to be that kid (or adult) that gets a hold of something and doesn’t know when to stop...
This Mexican’s Independence Day 8 years later…. and I’m still here. Thank goodness because several little people were counting on me. As my time to walk away was approaching in 2009, I decided to put on this very website the graphic below. I swear. I then told my entire social network. Not facebook, but people I knew from work and friends. They would visit this very site and...
It took me several years to acknowledge that the work I do is WORK to myself. I no longer had dirty clothes and rough hands from the manual labor. (Now people believe I could be a hand model for Olay) I no longer had aches and pains (although I would go on to have other types of body pains from long hours on laptop). No longer did I have to work the grave yard shift to make an extra 50 dollars a...
Current Time & Date January9, 2016 7:33 AM #NowPlaying – Clique – Jay-Z & Kanye Damn I am wired! Woke up wide awake. Seriously. Almost as if I was running late to work. I know you know that feeling. Thinking. A shit-ton. New ideas flooding my mind. But first let me get some breakfast. Done. I’m currently reading several books that have lit a fire in my ass. By...
Energy flows where attention goes. Someone smarter than me originally said that. Demonstrate that what makes you happy. Show the world that beauty. That energy. Others will share it with you. Focus your energy on what you dislike or hate and that is all you will see. That is what you will attract. Misery loves company. Notice all the hate that comes out when you share that hate. It’s all...
I try to be the best father I can. The best man I can. For them, as much as for me. I was a decent guy before. But being a father made me realize I really had to step up and bring my skills up. Leadership. Management. Modeling. Conversation. Public speaking. Social awareness. Even when I wasn’t teaching. I was teaching. They are always watching. Learning. Absorbing. To raise better...
My daughters scare me. They motivate me. The inspire me. They make me want to do things I never thought was possible. I’ll explain just how in a bit. I am in a perpetual state of self-improvement. I want to become a leaner, meaner, highly effective machine. I have to be more effective and efficient for crying out loud since I’m not getting younger and my memory is going to hell! I may...
Always starting something new. Well, almost always. So many good things are going well in my life, yet so many things yet to come. And to accomplish these new things I have to break some of the old ways of doing things. Which only seems right. As a part of this effort, I needed to start waking up early. Way earlier than I have ever thought possible. I need to wake up earlier to get more...
On Fatherhood, Manhood & Becoming Better Ancestors.