Category Archive For "Personal Development"
The Triune Brain
There’s this really cool thing I learned about the brain. It’s called the triune brain. They are the Reptilian, paleo mammalian and Neomammalian complexes. Neomammalian consists of the neocortex. This is where all our high level thinking occurs. It’s the part of our brain that basically tells how smart we are and how we’re able …
10 Years
What will my life look like in 10 years? Write an essay of everything you want. It’s very difficult to do. To write down what you want. So much fear and feelings of disappointment. Too many “what-ifs.” I have 2 problems. 1 – I’m afraid of getting caught in the gadget buying frenzy I can …
Ego is the Enemy: A Summary of Sorts
“I’ll show you.” “I’ll Prove them wrong.” It’s that bit of adolescence that seems to never go away in me. In conversation with a friend, he asked, “Does ego always have to be a bad thing?” Of course the answer is “no,” but the supposition undertone behind the question had me stumped. In the context, …
What My 9 Year Old Child Taught Me
In honor of my son Ender’s birthday, I’m going to share my top life lessons my 9 year old child taught me. #1 – Expect more from yourself. It’s one thing to say something, give advice, and lecture… it’s a whole different story to actually do it. To be the example. To be the better person. …
NEVER Forget You’re The Example
At one point you were a child. You were fathered. You were mothered. And not necessarily from your biological one. Everyone knows fatherhood. It’s negative or it’s positive. (It’s usually a bit of both.) For those of you that know my story, you know mine is negative. But as a parent, …
Ryan’s 12 Rules To Live By
How bad can it be? I’m afraid to put this on paper… But then I thought, what’s the worst thing that can happen? In yesterday’s email I talked about how structure creates freedom. It may or may not be something you agree with (and trust me a part of me is still fighting idea). But …
Growing Pains Breakthrough
The simplest and easiest way to get good at something is obvious. It’s misleading to say easiest because easiest does not mean easy. Effort requires energy and energy is finite…. You cannot be the best at everything. To have a chance to be the ‘very best’ .. or as Seth Godin says “the best in …