#40 Time Travel for Beginners

Special thanks to my older brother, “The Professor”, Bret Riggle, for breaking the complexity of so much of this down into understandable concepts for me. Time, is the variable that we can’t ignore if we care about connection and fulfillment. In this episode we get into broadening perspective on what it is beyond just being …

#39 Lessons From Everywhere: The Blind and Visually Impaired

Installment number three in the ongoing “Lessons From Everywhere” series, I share lessons learned from several conversations I had sitting on a bench with blind and visually impaired people waiting for the same train as me outside a center for the blind at one of the stops on my daily commute. Sometimes the people with …

#34 The Worst Advice I Have Ever Taken

Sometimes we think the people who have given us great advice and guidance are always right. Its a weird shortcut we take once we have a little trust built up. Is any human ever always right? Well then that would make them not human wouldn’t it. On this episode I share lessons learned from taking …

#33 The “Not Going to Stop”Commitment

Some things in life are things we do once. Some things for a while. Some things we try. Some things we do on and off, and some we never stop. When we consciously decide and commit to never stop something, it becomes confounding and compounding. We discuss what we can do to control what is …

Shift Perspective With Two Powerful Questions

In this one, we have movie references and two questions to stay focused on what will or won’t help a situation. Would it help? How is this helping me? If you are enjoying the show, or its having an impact, please share with someone you know, so we can bring more good stuff, more often. …

#28 Fulfillment From The Best Thing You Can Bring

Some people bring a presence that is contagious in a good way. Sometimes we are in a great mood and state of being and we don’t even realize how we got there. Its usually not just how you rolled out of bed, but is strongly based on a choice you made, or someone else’s influence. …

#25 You Can’t Dream Big Without the Simple and Small

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 …

Navigating the Irony of Fear

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 …

Curiosity Challenge #3: Don’t Just Count Your Blessings

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 …

Space To Accept the Challenge

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 …