Teaching Wilderness
[This is a guest blog post by Adam Salinger] After nearly 30 years of teaching at every grade level from K-12, I’ve often been asked how I managed to integrate my love of long-distance backpacking into all of my teaching…
They are There to this Day
One of the passages from my book take less. do more. that seems to be resonating with a lot of people is contained towards the end of Lesson 14. It’s about the story you tell yourself. Every life is filled with good and bad,…
Attending Your Own Funeral
I imagine we’ve all attended funerals, or memorials, or celebrations of life. It’s a chance to say goodbye to someone, to be with others that you shared that person’s life with. And if you’re in the Midwest, a chance to get some…
Secret Club: PDX Carpet
I’ve written before about what I call Secret Clubs. As we become interested in a particular topic or skill, we naturally learn more about it and/or get better at it through practice and experimentation. We get excited about the interest, and share it with…
The Laundry Cycle
Sahil Bloom’s Friday Five emails I find to be packed with short, interesting tidbits. In a recent one, he talked about the Laundry Cycle Theory. Bloom had been inspired by an exchange on the Mel Robbins Podcast: Mel: I’m probably not the only person that…
The Power of Trust
I don’t read as much as I would like to these days. When I was building businesses, increasing skills to become a better leader, better husband, better engineer, better employee, better manager, better producer, better speaker, better writer… I was constantly…
Infectious Generosity
I recently started reading Infectious Generosity by Chris Anderson (The ‘Head of TED’). I’m about halfway through, and it’s fascinating. Generosity is a big deal to me, and one description in the book caught my attention. Anderson describes how he received a call…
Let Me Count the Ways
I’m a big fan of use the Notes app on my phone, to capture things before I forget them, since I almost always have my phone nearby. I referenced this in previous post on Family Lexicon and in fact I use…
Keeping the christmas spirit
A couple of years ago, towards the end of January, with the Christmas lights and decorations long packed away into boxes in the basement, we notice that baby Jesus was still on our mantle. We were about to bundle him…
Giving and Receiving
Part of the great adventure of writing my first book is the things I’ve learned and the people I’ve met. At least for me, it seems like usually when I admit that I don’t know something (which is quite often),…