
Clarity
To bridge the gap between a goal/dream and your current reality, you must be clear on both. How did you get here? What did you think and do or not do to create your current reality? (Most people will blame someone or something else.) What do you want exactly? (Most…

You did this
Look at your life. This is what your thinking, actions, and habits were perfectly set up to produce. Cause and effect. If you want something different or better, you have to change how you are thinking and what you are doing.

Adversity builds strength
The schools around here closed for a few half days because it was "too hot". Our kids are learning that when it gets tough, fold your cards and go home. Of course, there will be challenges to come far, far more difficult than that. "It is in the most difficult…

You gotta do what you gotta do…
You gotta do what you gotta do, until you can do what you want to do. You'll never be able to do what you want to do, unless you do what you gotta do really well.

Be tough on you.
For many years, and even now, each day I made sure I did what I had to to get better, not mess up, and live up to my commitments, and more. I learned how to do this better and better, especially by making mistakes. I made it a habit. Then…

Independence
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: it vexes me to choose another guide." - Emily Bronte "The first of earthly blessings, independence." - Edward Glenn "If you are not your own agent, you are someone else's." - Alice E. Molley "There is no support so strong as…

Notes on High School
"I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that is mostly true." - Steven Soderbergh "High school - those are your prime suffering years. They don't get better suffering than that." - Steve Carrell "In high school, my desire for…

Standing on the backs of giants
"A wise man can learn from the mistakes of others; a fool can't learn from his own." -Will Durant If you are to get ahead you must learn from others - from what they have learned the hard way, the expensive way, and the long way. By doing this you…

Quit drinking sugar
(The war on sugar continues...) You may eat well, but do you drink well? Soda, fruit juice, beer, wine, gatorade, iced tea.... it's all loaded with sugar. Best to drink water most of the time - don't you think?

Changing your life
How you see changing your life makes a huge difference. You can see it as a chore you have to go through, or as a gift you are giving yourself. Do you prefer chores or opening gifts?

Are you consistent?
Let's say I was traveling every day. For two days I go north, then I accidentally veer off and go east for three days. Then I change my mind and go southwest for five days, until I get distracted and go southeast for six days. Then I refocus and start…

Practice courage
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." -Seneca Do you step out of your comfort zone often?

Do more than you are paid to do
"If you do more than you are paid to do, you will eventually be paid for what you do" - Zig Ziglar To put this to the test, who would pay you more if you did less than or just what you are paid to do now?

Sir John Templeton on Freedom….
Remarks by Sir John Templeton at Atlas Network, Sept 2001 - To begin, let's think back. The idea has been going on since civilization started thousands of years ago, that the government should be a dictatorship. Only very recently have we gotten away from the concept that everything should be…

Invictus
At the second to last pit, I said to my team "See you at the next pit". "OK". Sometimes when you're in a hurry there is not good communication. They decided to skip the last pit and go right to the finish line to get there before I did. (Remember…

Vegas to Reno
On August 18 I entered a 520-mile race across the Nevada desert on a motorcycle - "Vegas to Reno". I had done this race before in 2020 and did well. The terrain is not as difficult as the terrain in Baja Mexico where I have raced many times before, so…

My "Blueprint" Album
https://youtu.be/S0NUaUb3JYs This link should be to an album I produced called Blueprint. I worked with very talented musicians and producers - mostly Jessie Dostie. More credit to them than me! There is a whole album - it's on YouTube, though there isn't really a video. Check it out. Which is…

Control the controllables – or don't complain
"You can't get mad at the things you can't control if you don't control the things you can." Isn't that true? Often we complain about things outside of our control, while at the same time not doing a great job on the things we can. I have found that the…

A Better World
The opportunities you get when you are excellent are greater than the opportunities you get when you are average. The way you experience the world when you are excellent is vastly different from the way you experience it when you are operating at the level of mediocrity. The person who…
Great picture and great reminder, Larry! Thanks as always!!
14! Thank you!