Enjoying the Ride
1. Allow yourself to be calm. Meditation, daily walks or exercise, down time to think. 2. Listen completely without interrupting and genuinely seek to understand the other person's point of view. 3. Don't yell. If you feel like yelling, allow yourself time to walk or cool down. 4. Express yourself and talk calmly looking them in the eyes and by slowing down your speech. 5. Avoid … Continue reading...
This past week was crazy busy. I flew in from the East Coast the day after celebrating my 32nd birthday and had less than 48 hours at home before getting on a plane and heading right back out to the East Coast. Even though the plane rides seemed super long at the time and it seemed like a lot of work just to get home for such a short amount of time, I squeezed everything I could out of those … Continue reading...
Have you ever noticed the vibe in most airports and in airplanes? If you’re a frequent traveler, you may notice there are many tired, grumpy, and I would even add, people who carry around a sense of entitlement. With this type of vibe often encompassing us in certain situations, we have to fight more than [...]
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I recently completed my first ultra endurance 100 mile mountain bike race of the 2013 season. There were about 50 of us who did the 100 mile distance and many more who did the 50 mile distance. If you were to line up 2o of the 100 miler racers and ask them why they were [...]
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As I was flying home from Canada I had a remarkable experience. I was working on my new book titled The Switchback Approach on my laptop. In the final pages of the book, the story details the fictional account of four main characters in the book making a summit of the maginifcent Grand Teton in [...]
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I recently moved back to the snowy mountains of Northern Utah. Since there has been a break in snow storms, certain parts of the mountains have been melting and the dead grass has been exposed. Today I was out on a bike ride and noticed an entire section of a hay field that the snow [...]
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