Sometimes, heroes work alone, by necessity or by design. And sometimes, when facing an adversary that’s too powerful, a quest that is long and arduous, or a threat to their city or country or world that is too great for…
Ready Room for Heroes: World Domination Summit 2014
World Domination Summit. Sounds like a convention for super-villains (except they’d never have a convention together…). But instead, WDS a gathering of heroes from around the globe, who converged on Portland, Oregon this July (and the three previous Julys), to…
On Pain, Procrastination and Painting
I painted the dining room today. From that opening you might be thinking that this post is about: The benefits of freshening up your environment. (Nope, but there is value in that as a means of changing your mindset…
The Dangers of Hyper-Productivity and Rejecting Our Natural Rhythms
Do you ever feel like I do? Like you should be accomplishing more with your days? That no matter how good and productive and successful a day you had, you could have done more? Do you ever feel that way?…
Learning to Receive, With Humility and Grace
For many years I was caught up in the idea of DIY: do it yourself. I don’t mean the DIY home improvement stuff, although I did (and do) a fair bit of that. No, this was more about the idea…
Setbacks, Struggles, and How to Cope Like a Hero
My word of the week (actually the last two weeks) is “setback.” Right after I pushed the button for Free of Gravity to go live April 1st, my computer started acting up. And over the next several days, things started…
The Fool: Three Wisdoms He Can Teach Us
As I was preparing to launch this blog, I decided on April 1 as the start date. (My accountability group meets that evening, so in true procrastinator’s fashion, I’m waiting until the last minute to get it done…) As I…
Comfort Zones
Your comfort zones are a manifestation of gravity in your life. Each has a tremendous pull on you… “We’re caught in the tractor beam and it’s pulling us in!”—that kind of pull. And it wouldn’t be so bad if the…
Too Many Choices and Seven Tools to Manage Them
It’s a typical situation in these typical times Too many choices —Dave Matthews Band The world of information has offered us tremendous opportunity. We have access to more information, more entertainment, more learning than any other point in our history.…
The Lie of Busy (and the Truth of Productivity)
Why are cooking shows, home improvement shows, and computer games so addicting? Because they provide a false sense of accomplishment. You feel like you’ve done something significant—baked an awesome cake, retiled the bathroom, or gained level 90. The Lie of…