It’s huckleberry season in the Cascades, which means hikers like me are gorging themselves on an overabundance of tasty berries. But these delicious treats aren’t available to just anyone. They’re not near the parking lot of any trailhead. The best berries grow at elevations of around 5,000 feet, so you have to earn them with time, sweat, and discomfort. As is often the case in life, pain is the price… Read More »Discomfort Training
In his book, Take the Stairs, Rory Vaden talks about an interesting observation he made about cows and bison during his childhood in Colorado. When a storm rolled in and started raining on the animals, the cows would run away from the storm, trying to avoid the rain. But because the storm was blowing in the very direction they were running, the cows would get rained on for longer than… Read More »Be a Bison, Not a Cow
I have a problem with to-do lists. Writing things down is a good idea, of course, but the basic to-do list is, well, pretty basic. The typical to-do list fails to differentiate between short-, medium-, and long-term objectives. It doesn’t distinguish between things you have to do today and things you’d merely like to do today. It also doesn’t distinguish between today and tomorrow, between this week, this month, and… Read More »How to Write Better To-Do Lists
Do you ever find yourself rushed to get out the door in the morning, even though you theoretically had plenty of time? For me, this usually happens when I let my desire to do certain things get the better of me. Instead of doing the things I have to do first, I do the things I want to do up until I realize that I barely have enough time to… Read More »Have-To’s Before Wants