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Another day on the road

2 deliveries and we hit one wrong

That Kevin, Lindsay, Will one Time!!!

Thoughts on business in these times, the amazing people that make small businesses a success.

Such a good day getting to see all the friends I miss while we're quarantined Tyler, Tyler. Sam, Josh, Nate. Jamie, Josh, Orion.

Delivery action. Some thoughts on social distancing and community

My random thoughts as I deliver delicious Cruisers food

A quick hello on where this podcast is heading

Just a random conversation with my favorite 15-year-old. Perspective on relationships, friendships, and valuing yourself

A bit of a history lesson on my step into van life, a rambling tangent on some of my emotional swings lately, and a bit of an outline on one of the side hustle projects I've been working on and then I added in a segment updating the smog check situation on the van

#vanlife, Dad, Adventure

We often hear about forgiving ourselves for our past mistakes. Not identifying with them as who we are. But that same attitude can be taken in this very moment

Just me ranting on dressing n micro kindness

Solocast about the value and reward of service

I nearly shred my hand with glass...NEARLY

It only seems fitting that episode 1 of the Philomath Group is how to create your episode in Anchor...Check out my Blog post for all the details on how I did it and what I learned.

I really do appreciate everyone who reached out to find out what is going on with the podcast(and me). I especially wanted to thank; Adam, Bud, and Matt. These three have taken on a lot of my workload lately in many business lanes, so that I could get myself on the road to better health.

I have been working on getting this conversation(Podcast linked in Bio) set up for a bit now. I was super excited when I stumbled on this great example of giving and kindness. It also caught my eye because of the business side. It's not a great business model, that's not the point.It's just a beautiful synergy of #entrepreneurial spirit and #giving.  I've said it many times giving is a real key to #happiness. This is apparently going to get me into happiness because I committed to help directly by #running a half marathon for charity.  For those of you interested I'll for sure have some posts of me crying as I try to train for 13.1 miles. Also if you go to the show notes in the podcast link you'll find all the info about Our Little Roses and the great work they are doing there along with ways you can help.  Our Little Roses Orphanagehttp://www.ourlittleroses.org/

An update on my physical #transformation but much more importantly in this #podcast we talk about, loving yourself, respecting yourself, happiness, mental and emotional transformations. All things that can be just as important, if not more.

None of us are perfect. It's important to see our progress and acknowledge our own culpability in our negative situations. If you make excuses and blame others you will end up excusing your failures. It isn't until you own your own mistakes that you can translate them to opportunities to improve.

Way more important than Throwback Thursday this week. A raw conversation with my 14 year old son about how he views school shooters, gun control, and Wednesday's Walk Out movement. Mostly I want to convey the importance of having an open dialogue and hearing our children

Finally back to an update on my physical transformation...Transformation Tuesday's are back. Super amped that the progress I made was done under somewhat adverse conditions. Some created by me and some I came into.

A little getting to know you with @pmiller3 a soon to be regular guest on the podcast..I love this dudes overall energy and #happiness. We touch on getting to know him. #workpaths #college #careerselection

If you've ever had that awkward moment where you felt ohhhh why did I say that??? this one is for you. It's just a real quick take but man it is right from my experiences...it's amazing what a little self awareness brings to the table

Part 2 of my thoughts on change and progress....this one goes into some of my past so here it is under Throwback Thursday...you can find part 1 here

Another in my continuing look back at how I got to be this awesome motherfucker...Candy, first loves, parenting, a bunch of me rambling as usual

I am back to my focus on fitness. As I've spent more and more time researching how to live a better life and coming to love my life I've realized I need to extend that life. I need to do everything I can to enjoy more quantity of this life I've made such great quality of. #gratitude #fitness #transformationtuesday #weightloss #bodyfatI also said in the podcast that I would mention my numbers. so here they areWeight:261.3Body Fat Mass:78.5BF%:30.0Great News lot's of room for #personalimprovement

I've been thinking a lot lately on mindset. Not even mindset specifically as much as how it plays in hacking life in general. The most limited of all our assets is time.I constantly hear people pining for more time, but it is in a way that comes from stress and I just don't feel it in that way. I yearn for more time in a way that I am constantly learning and growing and I just can't absorb enough material in the 18 hours a day that I have. I can't get more time, not in today, not in this week, or even in life in general(I've got theories on how modern medicine will help that but let's not get too far off the path here)  So with no more time available, the only option left is to get more from our time. This brings me back to mindset. You can't get more hours, so what are you doing to get more out of your hours.  I heard a story that really tipped my viewpoint on mindset. I constantly think about my mindset, but what about the mindset

I have truly been enjoying the podcast so far. Some posts have been better than others and some of them have been just terrible(feel free to refer back to Episode :027 - Hot wet trash lol) but it was necessary for ME and that is the beauty of all of this. I truly hope it helps others find their happiness but it really has been surprisingly good for me too. A friend who listens to the podcast suggested that there be themes to the days. I had already been working on this idea with Fireside Fridays`But I absolutely loved her suggestion of Throwback Thursdays. Let's be honest, I LOVE alliteration… always.  I decided this was a perfect vehicle to open up about some of the past portions of my life. So moving forward once a week I am going to #ThrowbackThursday to some portion of my life. I am sure a lot of these will be difficult or unhappy for some of you but one thing I want to make VERY clear is that I am completely ok with every part of what has happen

Stick with it...it's 15 minutes of just some thoughts loosely around doing

Perspective and mindset are funny things. We all have convictions and beliefs that we feel are strongly rooted and most of us would say near infallible. Yet the reality is you can talk yourself into…or out of, nearly anything. A small shift in perspective or mindset and you've got all the tools you need to tell yourself what you WANT to hear.The problem with the default of human nature, or more specifically, the default society has taught most of us. Is that we focus on the negative. We condition ourselves to the can'ts the reasons why not, and the myriad of bullshit excuses.We are all perpetrators of this. At some point on out lives we have made decisions based on what we thought we couldn't do. The shitty thing is we got that from somewhere. My brother was always better than me at sports. I can never be best. The fuck is that mindset…I am awful at softball, but I can look at nearly anything mechanical and tell you how it works, t

Do you like people who steal children?Do you like people who sell children as sexual objects?Yeah...me neither!!!But it's My Birthday (January 22nd) Don't buy me shit, I have everything I need. But you CAN buy me a little better sleep at night knowing we helped save some kids. Also... I'm gonna match all donations up to 500.For my birthday this year, I'm asking for donations to The Exodus Road. I've chosen this nonprofit because their mission means a lot to me, and I hope you'll consider contributing as a way to celebrate with me. Every little bit will help me reach my goal.I also wanted to directly thank those who have already helpedAllison Andrews @allison_andrewsAsh Faulkner @peace_love_surfBud Wierenga @chicalicago / @ManpizzapuppyCindi Franklin @CinderrrssJosh Forward @itsjoshforwardK

I had a great conversation a few weeks ago over one of the posts(Good Principles Compound) that led to my post the next day(Short but important) the conversations we had around the topic just seemed so good that I wanted to share them, along with Sharing what an amazing human Steph Smith is (@stephev11)

  I tend to be a big list maker. Mostly due to the fact that my thoughts are pinging around in me head at a rate that doesn't often allow me to accomplish things in the moments that I think of them.  A regular saw me jotting some notes on a 3X5 card I've started carrying with me and led into a conversation that really opened me up to some new angles of looking at the same issue. So much so that I have been super pumped on sharing.  The comment he made, I'm sure with no idea that he would be altering how I look at life, was “what are you doing writing down ll the reasons you're so amped up and happy” I jokingly explained I was writing down a to do list before the idea leaked out of my ear. But I started to really think about this contrast.  I am a physically imposing person. So much so that customers will often times in passing wonder at what is wrong, what kind of upset I might be or, even if I am mad. 99% of the

A raw talk on a lot of thoughts on friendships and growing as a person through your ever expanding circle of contact

I wanted to touch on the post I put out yesterday. It was from a good place but I feel like I may have gone light on one of the most important aspects and in turn left some people with perhaps the wrong and maybe even directly opposite message of what I have been feeling. I truly believe in the message I put here but I'd be remiss if I left it at that. I've been really inspired by the feedback I've been getting but it has also given me a lot of real insight into how people will find the message they need in what are you saying. That being said clarity of my intention is really important to me. When I spoke about all the benefits of giving attention and truly listening I talked about what you get in return. I think I didn't give enough time or gravity to the idea that what you are getting is right there. It's not a matter of someone else giving it. You have to find the happiness in the giving; of attention, time, or even talents. If you

* interwoven nature of my most important principles. * Give #attention. * Receive #insight * Be #grateful * Show #empathy * #admire and #emulate

I know I've really been riding #empathy a lot lately it is just filling a lot of my thoughts and so it plays in to todays show it is just a little slice of some of what I've been noticing lately.  My empathy kicked in somewhere around the 3rd or fourth time I heard this guy, younger end for being in a bar, start in about “my buddy (Kyle/Chris/Steve) said…” This guys had at this point gone a full 45 minutes without contributing a solid thought that he was wiling to attribute to himself. Now I know I've seen this as a more common tactic amount much younger people. The attempt to dilute any negative reaction to an idea by attributing it to someone else. But as I gave it real thought I find myself as always looking into the psychology of peoples decision making.  YOU ARE SO SCARED OF THE NEGATIVE JUDGEMENTS OF OTHERS that you would rather have minimized credit for a thought provoking insight, or maybe even a BRILLIANT idea. That

Had an awesome conversation earlier this weekend at the bar with @terbear978 @xtinakuehn and @lindseyerindickmann about people they felt and people they just didn't want to deal with but kind of had to suffer because they are friends of friends. It gave me a great opportunity to share my current mindset that has really helped me in general. People only fall into two categories for me. Let me first give you a raw bit of honesty…I am constantly trying to better myself so when I say this is my mindset. That isn't a passive thing. I actively put myself into this place.I am constantly evaluating people. I have the opportunity to meet so many people working in the bar. It just gives me a wider range of exposure. That in itself is such a blessing because of the value I can get from those interactions. Every time I hit that evaluation it is simple. People only really go into two holes for me. The first one is super easy. Their rad and they bring something to y

Just listen...this one is a real front he heart blah blah of fatherly pride

I had an interesting visit last night. One I am actually completely grateful for. A local woman, one who for a brief time had been a regular, came in for the first time in months and it really helped me see some of my own growth, even in such a short time. It also It wasn't that long ago that I find myself talk poorly of this girl. It wasn't a matter of anything terrible or really negative but I directly had an impact on the perception of this human being. She was close friends with a liquor rep we had early on and they were in often. So often in fact that she ended up sleeping with one of our bartenders. Around this same time the rep and this woman had a confrontation with a customer as well as a few other incidents where I heard back about their drunk behavior in the bar. There was also a bit of gossip going around about these two and their relationships amongst a lot of the bar employees as well s regulars in our little downtown area. Now it's

I want to take a moment for some gratitude, a handful of people have taken time to talk to me about my podcast. I really appreciate all the support and mostly I appreciate the honest feedback. A couple of things I heard we the tone…in their own ways several people who I value said that I need to speak more from my own experience and less from the preachy tell you what to do. I've taken that to heart and I'll be polishing that part of things but I want you all to know that it comes from a place of real desire to give, I want to give people the happiness I've foundI have been reading Ray Dalio's book Principles where he talks a lot about the idea of having a set of principles that guide you. I think we all do have some basics that we believe but I know for me the more I create and buy into the more I find the ease of them. It comes down to efficiency for me. I wasn't always a good person. I have stolen and fought and taken advantage of others and just be

Some times you will hit roadblocks to your change. You'll reach a stumbling block that comes from some of those clt the osest to you. This reality comes back to one of the most important principles #EMPATHY You have to see it from their perspective. They have whatever lengths of experience they have with you and as you are changing you can't expect them to see the goal you are living. You have to understand that they see a high point, a happiness and kindness that is amazing to them, if they are a true supporter of you. But they also have a lot more experience with the previous version of you.  The really interesting dynamic is that those that have known you the longest are most likely your biggest cheerleaders for change. They are also the most likely to have a long term history with the version of you that they may not think as highly of as they will once they see the consistency with the positive growth you are going through.  I