Face Your Fears and Travel the World
Editor’s note: Originally published Jun 3, 2016. Podcast added August 2, 2017 with the first 16 minutes of the Face Fears and Travel talk at Hostelling International. The camera stopped …
Clear the Mechanism
After sitting silent for 60 minutes, his three words silenced the 20 others in the room: “Clear the mechanism.” “Tell me more about that!” “My pitching coach used to tell …
Walking Like a Panther: The Power of Poses
One of my clients does the panther walk. That is, they walk as if avalanches of abundance are cascading into their life and the manifestations of their dreams are happening …
Five Guys
Tony “The greatest fear is always going to be your intimate relationship. That’s why the path of intimacy is ten times more powerful as a spiritual path than the path …
Virtue Signalling and Locker Room Talk
“You shouldn’t make a public display of virtue until you’ve straightened up your damn life.” -Dr. Jordan B. Peterson When Donald Trump’s ‘locker room talk’ episode leaked, I was aghast at …
Bad News About Bad Habits, Making a Mess and Doing
People want good news about bad habits Have you noticed how people tend to tiptoe around the root of a problem? Let’s think about our friend James. He is having trouble …
Doing. Self Love. Masks
“. . . the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I”.” -Watts I. Doing Like with everything else I’ve …
From Art to Self Sabotage
Life. “It’s just a ride… And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple …
Friday Five: The ‘Secret’ and Straight FIRE from 1841
This is the last Friday of my 20’s. Pour one out for me this weekend. I’ll be traveling to the badlands of Eastern Washington to witness the ancient scenery. In …
Q: What’s your purpose? What is your dream worth to you?
Tristianne asked: “What’s your purpose? What is your dream worth to you?” I’m not 100 on what the thesis of what my purpose is, but it looks like this: I want …
Writer’s block and finding inspiration.
A blank page is an intimidating invitation to create. Creation requires a change of state: potential to kinetic; white to black; nothing to something. A page filled with creation, change …
Workshops are for Crackheads
“Do, or do not. There is no try.” Master Yoda Oftentimes, workshops, webinars, training and certification programs are tries disguised as dos. While I personally am largely skeptical of any …
Audit Yourself
This weekend, starting right now, I will be auditing myself. And I invite to you to do the same with yourself. What do I mean by that? When I was …
Trolls and the Blinking Cursor
New Post. A Blank Page. The blinking cursor. The first few letters of a word appear from thought, hit the fingers and flash across the screen. Somewhere within my head …
NewsFeeding
When I cook, I eat my own cooking. The most difficult part is limiting my quality assurance tastings. I need to make sure there’s enough left for the dinner table. …
3 Questions
timo’s note: podcast version added January 24, 2017. When I quit my corporate job to enter the startup world I knew that it would take grit. I knew that I would …
Plant Medicine and the Final Frontier
The medicine was supposed to clear my vision. And I was instantly blinded. My eyes sealed shut. The veins on my forehead bulged edging on explosion. An acid-drenched, liquid drill …
The Friday Five – January 6, 2017
This was last week’s Friday Five I sent to the tribe and an example of what you can expect to receive from the man bun maestro. If you are interested in …
Dr. Shawn Postma: The 4 Directions, Anxiety and Reconnecting to Our Inner Genius
Dr. Shawn Postma is a Naturopathic Doctor and Spiritual Mentor. And I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to bask in the presence of his innate wisdom. While working …
Alma Lara on How to Dream it Real, Gratitude and Restarting from Zero
She is the next Oprah. I’m telling you. And I think this is the closest I’ve come to tears in an interview. Alma is a real life example of how …
Soul Guru and the Cafe on the Ledge
How is that so many of us can feel lost in a state of “I don’t know” as the answers to life instantly appear on a 5 inch screen? We might be looking in the …
Give Me Breath, or Give Me Death: 4 Ways to Navigate a Quickening World
After weeks of anticipation, I got the call. It was an opportunity to be part of an event I had been seeking for 5 years, and the caller had the …
Reactive Reptiles
James sits with his butthole clenched, teeth gritting and eye balls twitching. That stupid gorilla meme Sandy shared is the most xenophobic, misogynist, bigoted, racist thing since ET the Extra-Terrestrial. …
What’s Your Absolute Value?
Remember Absolute Value from math class? The absolute value is a number’s distance from zero: In this example, -3 and 3 both have an absolute value of 3, because they …
One Year Ago I Retired
I retired at 28 with no 401K, no savings, tons of debt and an idea: Freedom. July 3rd, 2015 was my independence day. It was the end of a toxic …
What My High School Guidance Counselor Didn’t Tell Me
You’re being rushed into a life of indentured servitude. The education you’re going to purchase will be mediocre. At times, what you will be taught will be an insult to the …
Infinite Indecision
How I Calibrate Myself to Avoid Decision Fatigue Hurriedly James leaves the dark confines of his flourescently lit office and spills onto the sun soaked pavement of the outside world. …