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You are not perfect.
I’ve failed. Thats one of the hardest things for me to admit. Both out in the open, and even just to myself. The perfectionist boy inside me HATES that. He wants to freak out, hit the reset button on the Nintendo and do everything again perfectly. He wants to delete the past and pretend it didn’t happen. But it did. And life stubbornly has no reset button, or save points to go back to. I have to live with all the decisions I have made…0r, more applicably in my case, didn’t m


Can you breathe?
It sounds stupid but how often do we forget to breathe? We don’t pass out... so we are breathing I guess, but the job of our diaphragm...


Love the Process
It’s been a good long while since my last Black Belt Dad post. Dad is still very much NOT a black belt. In fact I am still a white...


Baby Steps
Walk before you run. In fact…Crawl, before you walk, before you run. As much as I’m trying to teach my daughter things, she is teaching...


I Don't Wanna!
It’s 6 weeks into my white belt journey. I am starting to get a vague sense of whats going on, which only serves to plunge me deeper...


Failing.
They say a black belt is just a white belt that never quit. In that vein, I like to look back at my parental failings and try to learn...


Moms vs Dads
I was listening to some research the other day about single parent families and the roles of fathers and mothers in families. It was...


White Belt Dad
(Written shortly after starting my JiuJitsu journey, Circa Aug/Sept 2021) I’m a white belt. That means I’m at the bottom of the food...


Health Priorities #6 Learn about Pain and Pain Management
(Many of the concepts I've tried to outline here are discussed more deeply in this extremely good blog post: https://thelogicofrehab.com...


Health Priorities #5: Medical Checks
It's often said that nowadays, "Health Care" should be renamed "Sick Care". People say this because it seems like the modern medical...
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