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Category: Living Well

The Secret To Slowing Down 2025

Published on December 17, 2024

I was speaking to a parent the other day and we were both commenting on how fast this last year went by.

Like… 2025?! …What??

And not only were we amazed at how fast the year went by… but at how it feels like the years go by faster and faster each year.

One of the reasons for this, I’d say, is that with each year we get busier and busier.

When we contextualize this within the span of a day, you’d see the same pattern. The busier you are, the quicker the day goes by.

The antidote to this then, if you’re looking to better soak in and fully absorb the time of your life, is to deliberately find time when you can un-busy yourself.

Time when you can just sit… and meditate for a little while.

Time when you can just walk… and notice the world you often take for granted.

Time when you can just reflect… and emphasize the happenings of the day, sort through the thoughts of your mind, and solidify key moments that you want to carry with you there forward.

As obvious as it sounds, my feeling is that far too many don’t make time for this.

If you want time to slow down… you have to slow down.

More un-busy time is the path to a more fully experienced year.

Becoming A Parent Energy

Published on December 15, 2024

One of my best friends became a father today.

And my guess is that it was filled with some of the most present, wholesome, transcendental moments of his entire life.

…Imagine if we could harness this same kind of awe, attention, and energy into more of the moments of our days.

…Because the crazy thing is: we can.

Leadership Isn’t About Answers

Published on December 13, 2024

In regards to leading others, one lesson I’m realizing more and more is that it has so much less to do with giving answers and so much more to do with asking better questions, presenting interesting ideas, creating space for connection and creativity, acting as a source for accountability, being the one who goes first, and encouraging others to take opportunities that they otherwise might not know about or feel good enough to do.

…Because, man, leadership becomes so much easier when you realize you don’t always have to have all the answers.

I Really Need To Follow My Own Advice

Published on December 11, 2024

I started 2024 with a brainstormed list of five things I wanted to start prioritizing and said, “Pick one thing to focus 100% of your energy on. None of it ever works out to be as easy as it seems in your mind. Try to do too much and you’ll fail at it all. Get an A+ in one and you’ll be well on your way to properly conquering them all.”

So, naturally, I picked three things and made them my 2024 goals.

And, lo and behold, I didn’t accomplish any of them.

Who would’ve thought that picking one goal and focusing 100% of my energy on it would’ve been a better strategy?

…This is what I mean when I say I write these blogs for me more than any one else. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Anyways… what’s interesting is that in the second half of the year, I felt a noticeable pull towards creating a poster store and expanding the MoveMe Quotes shop into something more intriguing—which was one of my brainstormed ideas at the outset.

And what’s crazy is I can remember having this same pull towards building a poster store when I was picking from that original brainstormed list! …But, instead of listen, I told myself that new 30-day guides and video courses would be a more powerful value add to my audience and ignored it.

And lo and behold… here I am.

…Concluding 2024 with none of the three original goals accomplished and a poster store and expanded MMQ shop created.

A reminder to you (but, mostly me)… to listen more closely to the whispers of your inner guidance.

Fighting and suppressing its insight only ever delays the inevitable.

I Was Being Selfish

Published on December 9, 2024

There’s a major martial arts tournament happening this upcoming weekend in Toronto, Canada.

And one of the biggest draws for this tournament is that they’re offering around 15-20 full one hour seminars with the best of the best in the sports martial arts world—that are all FREE for competitors.

Recognizing the unbelievable value in this, I immediately started to make plans where I could go for the seminars and have my instructors cover for me (teaching classes at our martial arts school), and then come back to run the school and cover for them while they went down to compete.

But, the more I thought about it, the more I realized… I was being selfish.

I wanted to go to the seminars so that I could come back and teach them all that I learned—and be the bearer of knowledge.

When really, I should be taking myself out as the middle man and allowing them to go and get the information first hand. They’re the ones who are competing and they’re the ones who are on the “come up” part of their journey.

I’ve had my time to compete in these tournaments and attend these types of seminars. It’s time for me to check my ego and humbly step aside so they can experience what I fell in love with first hand.

And besides, even if I retaught every seminar verbatim when I got back, it still wouldn’t be anything like the original experience. First hand learning will always blow second hand learning out of the water.

…And if I (we) really cared about our team’s growth, we’d be willing to make some sacrifices to prove it.

Don’t Let The Tame Ones Tell You How To Live [Poster Now Available…!]

Published on December 8, 2024

Some of the best advice I ever got was: don’t take life advice from people who aren’t living a life you want to live and don’t take criticism from people you wouldn’t go to for advice.

These two expressions have been really helpful for me when the firehose of information does what it does and smacks you in the face relentlessly with opinions, viewpoints, and unsolicited advice that oftentimes feels wrong, confusing, polarized, contradictory, and/or overwhelming.

Which is why I’m thrilled to introduce this beautiful poster reminder I created:

Featuring an impressive sketch of an explorer hiking in the mountains outdoors with text in the shape of a sun that reads, “Don’t let the tame ones tell you how to live.”

This poster will remind you to listen more closely to your role models and less closely to your critics, trolls, and tamed comfort zone huggers.

It’s also a perfect gift for the outdoor adventurer, travel enthusiast, or solo explorer (or soon to be) who lives the anti-tame lifestyle and wants to beautifully illustrate it on the walls of their home (that they’ll rarely be there to see ;)

It’s available to be purchased as a print (available in three sizes) or digital download so you can get a physical copy shipped to your house or you can instantly download a complete file set and get it displayed however you’d like!

To get your copy CLICK HERE.

And thank you, as always, for your ongoing support. I hope you love this poster as much as I do :)

P.s. Purchase by Sunday, December 8th at midnight and get 25% off + FREE Shipping…! Simply click “Redeem” in store header. Buy Now ➜

The No Excuses Lifestyle

Published on December 5, 2024

When boiled down, living a life of “no excuses” is living a life of self-discipline. And living a life of self-discipline doesn’t have to be as hard as you might think (or have been led to believe).

When I think about modern media examples of living a life with no excuses, I hear Jocko Willink yelling in his Navy SEAL voice something along the lines of, “Pain is weakness leaving the body! Stop being weak, get up, and get after it!”

Or Eric Thomas screaming in a YouTube video, “Sleep? I don’t sleep – you thought that was it? It goes deeper than going without sleep because you might miss the opportunity to succeed. No, no, no—it’s about no days off. No weekends. No holidays. No birthdays. Listen to me: No Days Off! No half days, no holidays, no snow days.”

Or maybe more simply, Shia LaBeouf looking deep into my soul and shouting, “JUST DO ITTTTTTT.“

But these messages, while certainly not short in motivational kick, usually don’t last very long. Why? Because how we feel in any given moment doesn’t last very long. It’s simply an unavoidable reality that we are forever changing and constantly in flux beings.

Which is why when we talk about self-discipline what we need to be talking about are systems we can put into place, that meet us where we are, that help us move slightly forward from that place, that can be repeated day-in and day-out, regardless of mood or emotions, that are built for the long run.

Anything else is a temporary kick that’ll be gone just as fast as it was brought up.

P.s. More on how to *actually* do this here.