This is the first of 3 posts on The Renaissance Man’s Guide To Maintaining Momentum While Doing Everything. The Renaissance Man’s Challenge Being a renaissance man is hard. There’s so much I want to do and so much I want to be good at there there’s a seemingly endless amount of activities on my plate. Just take a look at [...]

Happy Thanksgiving From [BIT] Hopefully you’re spending today eating too much, drinking too much and enjoying the company of family and friends. I talk a lot about what I’m doing here, but I wanted to let each of you know, thank you. Thank you guys for doing your own impossible things and challenging me to do mine. Thank you for reading, commenting, [...]

Happy Thanksgiving week. Thursday is going to be a big day here in the US and we’ll celebrate like we Americans normally do, eating entirely way too much and watching football. Somewhere in there we get together with relatives and we’re reminded of how good we have it. I think it’s a great tradition (the “how good we have it” [...]

You’re Not ADD I get it. ADD is a real disorder and a lot of people have it. I know. I’m not talking about them. I’m talking about the people who use ADD their reason for doing nothing. Instead of taking one or two tasks from start to completion and taking pride in doing it, they bounce around with 7 [...]

This is the first installment in a series titled “5 Ways to Live the Life You Were Meant To.” The series will run over the next 3 days on 5 different blogs run by some of my favorite bloggers. I’m honored to have been asked to write the first installment of this series. Part One: Get Motivated by Joel Runyon [You're [...]

Stretching is one of my least favorite activities. It’s painful, it’s boring and it takes forever. It’s also entirely necessary if I expect to keep running triathlons, half-marathons and more races in the future. I’m learning this the hard way. This whole week I’ve been hobbling around since tweaking my IT band early last week and making it even worse during [...]

The Race I woke up at 4:30am the day of and got down to Indy. It had snowed Friday night and Saturday morning was not warm. I tried to warm up by jogging around, but my knee was sore the whole time and I could barely eek out a jog. How am I gonna run a half-marathon with this? I [...]

Originality is overrated There’s such a pressure in everything we do to be original. Original goals blog posts, music, products, etc, etc etc. It’s so prevalent that it actually makes me tired. I’m convinced the pursuit of originality is just a cover. A cover for procrastination. A reason not to do anything. Instead of taking action, we wait and wait [...]

Usually I begin with some sort of interesting lead-in here that’s representative of the whole month, but It’s been a crazy month with lots of things happening, so lets just dive in. Around The Blog It’s been a busy month around the blog. I knocked another thing off of my impossible list when I ran a 10K and learned a [...]