Its good to want to level up and grow and progress and push towards the highest potential in anything. So why does it sometimes feel like something is still blocking us despite great vision and attitude and knowledge and desire? Why when you have done healing of life’s big traumas and conciously let go of …
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Fear is a tricky emotion. Sometimes helpful. Sometimes its the very thing that causes the pain we were afraid of. How should we interpret it in ourselves. In this episode we have stories from fiction, from real life history, and from everyday life to show that its worth getting to know yourself a lot better …
Come on why try to number them all? Get curious with this challenge and list them out and describe them as much as you can in writing in a notepad or journal. Just do 10 and share one with a friend, and watch how it changes your outlook and daily interactions, and you can mark …
Continue reading “Curiosity Challenge #3: Don’t Just Count Your Blessings”
A short follow up to the previous episode entitled The Forgotten Secret of: Creating Space. I realized over the last week, since I shared the 10 areas to create space in your life, that I had not mentioned that one of the major benefits to creating space in your life in the first place …
The simple power and gratitude of saying “I’m still here”.
We can only kind of control how long we live. We can try to impact how much of our time is spent in a state of good health. But an even better goal is to maximize the amount of our lifetime spent in a state of true aliveness and fulfillment. See comparison of the overlapping …
My late Father John Riggle or “Big Rig” had his own words of wisdom for reducing the solution to complex problems down to a simple phrase of clarity as a guiding principle. He called these “Riggleisms”. He hoped his children would have their own one day. Here is one from yours truly. “Stop Eliminating hope, …
The inaugural episode of the 3rd series on the Way of the Bonfire. Lessons from Everywhere.
This is all about finding new perspectives all around us.
Where I package up and deliver to you a list of 10 things I have learned from someone, or a group of people, or an experience or an industry etc.
The overarching theme is
Never underestimate what someone or a group of people or something can teach you, no matter what their title or status or age or years of experience happens to be. Never squander that opportunity hidden in plain sight.
Today is about my 1 year stint in the Garbage industry around 12 years ago and the unexpected things I learned from the Garbage men.
The life lessons are presented as parallels to carrying a heavy load with a lot at stake in your life.
As a quick reference here is the list. I elaborate on the deeper meaning of each point in the episode.
1. Aim high in steering.
2. Get the big picture.
3. Keep your eyes moving.
4. Make sure they see you.
5. Leave yourself an out.
6. Never take more than you need.
7. When in doubt, get out and look.
8. Rock and Roll
9. Don’t skip the Vehicle Condition Report
10. Know when to Drop back Ten and Punt
Bonus Tip: Stop Freaking Out
