Category: Personal
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Important advice from the man who wrote the book that Steve Jobs read every year
If you’ve been around here long enough you’ve heard me say a thing or two about Paramahansa Yogananda. He was the author of the Autobiography of a Yogi, the book that Steve Jobs read every year. I distinctly remember reading this book in a hotel room in Washington state when a slip of paper fell…
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Sunday letter and how our irrational fear of the basics is shooting us in the foot
This week our prayers have been answered. Well, the main prayer: We are using the corona virus and school shut down to grow closer as a family and develop more self-reliant, confident kids. It’s happening. And it’s good. But a lot of other stuff about this virus is NOT good. Not good at all. No,…
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Attachments, fears, and growth
Last night I was reading some Paramahansa Yogananda wisdom. It came to a part about attachment. And it was something I had never considered before. I was really attached to the way things were. And the way things were wasn’t always all that great, funnily enough. But, I knew those things. And now they are…
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Nerves like steel, muscles like iron – George Jowett shows you how
I couldn’t believe when I was outbid for George Jowett’s Unrevealed Secrets of Man. 2 bucks. Both volumes. I bid $105. But that was a blessing, because the urge to purchase was so high, I immediately went looking for some other Jowett stuff and found his 12 week course, the original!, for $130. Sold. His…
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Pavel Tsatsouline on the Joe Rogan Experience
It was in 2003, just after I had drunkenly crashed my car into a telephone pole when I found Power to the People, by Pavel Tsatsouline. I was at a low point, for sure. And here is this confident Russian who came to America and was making a name for himself…and had some killer information.…
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Strength without weights – little known exercises that “put the pep into you”
A poor posture can really devitalize you. Many of us have posture postures. For nearly two months now, I’ve been “a disciple of Jowett.” George Jowett that is. And if you haven’t heard of him, you should have. One of those sentenced-to-death-by-doctors stories. They said he was going to die and he revitalized himself into…
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Information on the Mighty Atom
“What time is?” Joseph (the future Mighty Atom) asked? “Morning?” Valenko replied. “Why are we up so early?” “It’s the best time.” “For what?” “Everything.” Tell you what. I’ve been pretty pumped up reading about the Mighty Atom. It’s not long into the book that you get into what makes everything work: willpower. See, his doctors…
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Coffee and a reading of Brooks Kubik’s Chalk and Sweat
I’ve adopted a new habit. The alarm goes off and while the coffee is brewing, I go outside on the deck and absorb and inhale fresh air. The sleeping chamber should ideally have an open window, but you know how it is with trust. Who knows what might come through that window. Probably nothing, ever.…
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The wife went to bed early and then this happened…
That subject makes it sound worse than it really was. I mean, what are you thinking right now? What do you think happened? I’ll tell you. Here’s the sordid truth. A confession if you will. I drank a third glass of wine and wasted about 30 minutes watching random YouTube videos. Hey, it was a…
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Why strength training is totally different as a dad
I was talking to someone I’d known in my twenties but hadn’t kept up with. He asked me if I was still training. I told him i was but that it was different. I had dad strength. It’s hard to support the level of training that I would require to stay big and strong. I…