Awesome picture!! 🤙

I’m going to guess that you climbed a water tower to get the photo, I just don’t know where.(?)

No idea where that picture was taken, but the headlines of your arrest would have been an interesting future TD read! It’s all about the chances……

Go, Brian!

Re photo: Holy Land in Waterbury?

South Korea and North Korea border

Location: Housatonic River, borders of Oxford and Monroe, CT.

Looking: North/Northwest.

Structure Climbed: High-tension power line tower.

Object in distance: Stevenson Dam / Route 34 Bridge.

What a great question, because it points straight at a real paradox. When you ask whether someone’s life has truly been their choice, you’re touching on free will, personality, upbringing, expectations, and the attitude a person brings to the world. And for me, the answer lives in the tension between both sides.

On one hand, I’ve always had an independent streak. Even as a kid, I didn’t like following others directions. I didn’t enjoy following instructions for the sake of compliance. I wasn’t afraid to try things on my own, even when the consequences were clear and the downside possible. I’ve had this contrarian edge for as long as I can remember. It is really an instinctive resistance to doing things simply because “everyone else does.” These traits feel innate and they pushed me toward leading, building, and thinking for myself.

And yet, my life didn’t begin on a blank canvas. I was born into a particular world, with its own gravitational pull. I’m a second-generation foundation repair contractor. I grew up in this trade and was doing the work as a kid. That environment shaped me, influenced me, and placed certain opportunities directly in my hands. Some of that had nothing to do with choice. It was circumstance, pure and simple.

So here’s the paradox…the path is absolutely mine… and it was also formed by the personality I didn’t choose and the circumstances I didn’t control.

I didn’t invent the road, but I’m the one who decided how to walk it. I took a legacy and made it my own. I reshaped the direction, the mission, and the purpose behind it. The roots weren’t optional, the growth was. And that’s the beauty of it. I believe my life is a product of both the unchangeable things I was born with and the choices I’ve made with them.

In the end, I didn’t escape my circumstances, I directed them, and that path feels authentically mine.

For me, it is the fear of not meeting my commitments and letting other people down.

Courage gives us the strength to be the person we want to be 🔥🙏

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
– John Wayne

What am I doing?…I’m starting an attic systems business in Phoenix with my husband!

10X Amen… Me too 🙏

We are still here! While alive, we make the best of it! Just keep going…

So true! Sleep is good.

So true! Life is too short to fight every battle, choose your battles wisely.

When persistence and “belief” turn into persistence and belief.
“It’s not over until I win”
This quote is from Les Brown’s son when they were playing connect four, told by Les Brown. I remind myself of it often.

Great photo!

We can’t be afraid to fail as long as we learn from it. I’ve even used failure as a metric for my personal development, if I haven’t failed at something recently then it’s because I’m not trying new or challenging tasks. Keep falling forward.

Exactly.
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God has designed life in a way where “failure” always shows you your next move.
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Data doesn’t lie; adjust accordingly and execute.

Right on!! To an awesome 11th year in Baja. I hope you enjoy 🙏🤙

Good luck on your race!

We are cheering you on from VA! Good luck!

Best of luck Larry!

Have a great race! I’ll be looking forward to the after report!

Here’s something that is probably also true. There are poor people who believe they would like to change places with an old billionaire. The reality is that you don’t realize how unimportant money is until you have a lot of it and realize there’s a lot more to life than just earthly riches. The billionaire knows that and would happily start life poor again knowing that they have the ability and confidence to earn money and they will be fine. The poor person doesn’t always have that luxury.