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You Only Have Two Shoulders

Whenever people ask me who my biggest inspiration is, I tell them my grandfather. It’s not that I don’t have other people in my life who inspire me. There are many. My wife, for facing up to her everyday battles. My friend Sam, for his tireless pursuit of saving the lives of our kids. My kids, for […]

Finding Moments of Silence in a Sea of Noise

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. Sydney J. Harris We live such busy lives. We run from meeting to meeting, sales call to sales call, school event to school event, all without question. Instead of questioning the validity of these sprints, we simply brush reasons aside, because it’s just […]

Those Random Memories (Or How We Craft a Life)

It’s funny how we start to accept the journey of getting older as we actually take it. When I was 17, the last thing I could ever envision was what I’d be doing 30+ years from then. Instead, all I cared about was being old enough to go to a bar, and find girls once […]

Being In The Physical, and Turning Memories Into Moments

In the spring of 2018, I returned to my birth country, Scotland, for a joint whisky tasting and scenic tour.. I took the trip with my good friend, Sam Fiorella, who had wanted to do this trip for a few years (he was meant to do it for his 50th birthday). Given my own 50th happened […]

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