Annual self reflection and intention setting brings me to Cabo San Lucas 😎 Boy, the silver linings this year were a worthy lesson. High level themes include the power of mindset and perspectives. Leading with the heart. Vulnerability. It’s truly been a year of refocusing my lens and tweaking my own formula. I found theContinue reading “2020 Self Reflection and 2021 Intentions”
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Deconstruct What Happiness Means to You
Current song: Pharrell Williams – Happy Oh happy day, it’s my 2nd re-birthday today!!! Its a day of reflection and celebration every year in my life. Why? Because I’ll never forget this day as it’s always in my mind with every breath I take, step forward, and big hug I give. Two years ago today,Continue reading “Deconstruct What Happiness Means to You”
Pain and suffering is gold
Current Song: Justin Mylo & Navarra – Live Like This It’s safe to say that we all want to succeed and not fail. Wether that be playing a friendly game of ping pong or interviewing for a dream job, we want to do well; I mean who doesn’t right?! But the reality is that weContinue reading “Pain and suffering is gold”
Being our own worst enemy
Current song: Alanis Morissette – Ironic When something doesn’t go according to plan or how we thought, why are we always so quick to point the finger and blame something or someone else? It’s like a default mode hard wired inside of us ever since birth to not blame ourselves – “it was all Johnny,Continue reading “Being our own worst enemy”
Going full circle – Comfortable being uncomfortable
Current Song:Axwell Ingrosso – On my way Today is one to always remember (9/12/17) – it marks my one year anniversary at A to Z company and nine months of recovery from my AVM. It's been amazing to see all the hard work paying off as I've now been able to travel across the world,Continue reading “Going full circle – Comfortable being uncomfortable”
What you see is not what you always get
Current song: William Singe – Shake it off (T Swift cover) Perception, judgement, assumptions – these are all things as humans we are often oblivious and numb to given the amount of times we subconsciously allow it drive our actions. This happens everyday, multiple times a day – from looking at the person in lineContinue reading “What you see is not what you always get”
Express yourself!
Current song: Tim McGraw – Humble and Kind Self-control/keeping to myself and expressing emotions has always been a balancing act that I have never been able to figure out. Typically, I weigh to far on the self-control side and not on the expression side. I am a guy who always wants to appear tough, but amContinue reading “Express yourself!”
Back to “normal”
Holy crap. This is the first time I’ve sat still and reflected in awhile – over the past couple months since I returned to work from medical leave on 6/12/17, I’ve managed to travel to San Diego and Toronto, back home to Chicago, and spent almost all of July in 5 cities around India andContinue reading “Back to “normal””
Blessing in Disguise
How many times have you heard or even said to yourself “that’s too hard” when encountering life’s speed bumps? I am also guilty of this but is it really too hard? More often than not, it is this image we create in our mind that instantly plays out and influences our decisions. Now what happens whenContinue reading “Blessing in Disguise”
Forward is the only direction
As much as we sometimes wish we could freeze a moment or stop time, we can’t because life is always happening and there is only one path – forward. It sounds simple and logical right? Well as we all know that is almost never the case, its a complex equation we end up running throughContinue reading “Forward is the only direction”
About-face 