Sometimes a book can hit you square between the eyes. Yesterday, I picked up Seth Godin’s new book, The Practice: “a road map to the journey taken by every artist, writer, maker, and entrepreneur—a powerful call to action for those who seek to make change.” When something really hits me, I find myself shaking my head and laughing in disbelief as I read passages, bunny-earring page after page…

“Wanna go for a run?”

After a slow start to our Sunday morning, both quite comfortable with a book and a cup of coffee in-hand, I asked Julie if she wanted to head outside for a run to get out and play. We went back and forth a bit, procrastinated, found all sorts of other little things to do, slugged down our remaining coffee, and, 45 minutes later, we were finally headed out the door.

While we weren’t jumping for joy about this little endeavor, I think we both had a sense of accomplishment…

Life is a lot of fun when we really start building momentum toward a goal. And, what do we do when we’re having fun? We tell people about it. It’s fun to share joy. We want to tell others about discoveries we’ve made. We want to tell others about barriers we’ve overcome. We want to tell people what we…

On Sunday, I had a 7 mile run planned. I wanted to get it done early so that I had the rest of the day to play. I woke up at 5:30am and went about my morning routine—coffee, reading, and sketching—to get me ready to head out the door by 7am for a morning workout. But, the coffee wasn’t working, the reading wasn’t grabbing my attention, and I couldn’t figure out anything to sketch. By 7am, I was no closer to starting my 7 mile run than I was when I crawled out of bed at 5:30am.

There’s no question about it: getting back in shape is just plain tough. If you’re anything like me, we make it so much harder on ourselves than it needs to be because of the mindset that we bring to the endeavor. To “get back in shape” means that we have a reference point.

Nothing happens by simply thinking about it. Nothing. The only thing that makes us move forward is action. Thought can drive action. But, thought alone will do nothing for progress. We must put thought to the test.

But I want to be…