Burn The Boats (part Two) Back in March of 2018, I signed on with a national fitness franchise to open my first gym after doing some in depth research. I was excited. I couldn’t wait to get started. Over the next 6 months, as I took steps toward finding a location for my …
Burn The Boats (Part One) In 1519, a Spanish Conquistador, Hernán Cortés, took 600 men and sailed to the Yucatan Peninsula in search of the world’s richest treasure. To do so, he had to conquer the Aztec Empire. This was a seemingly insurmountable mission for his small army against an indigenous people that …
Suffer Greatly “To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove …
Running to Your Fears Ever since my first experience in an elementary school play, I have had stage fright. I was 5 or 6 and I froze on stage. I can’t even remember what the play was or what I was supposed to say but there I was, frozen with just a smile on my …