Author: Chet

I love Marcus Buckingham’s definition of strengths - something that makes you feel stronger when you’re doing it. A weakness? Something depleting when you do it. Notice both definitions have zippo to do with how competent you are at doing. OPUS, your labor of love, will strengthen you if it’s authentic. If your work is … Continue reading Hard OPUS…

Rode the pelly for freakin’ ever yesterday. Watched The Tour. Listened to music. Read and prayed in Psalms. Took care of Miss best I know how. Just another day living through this season on earth. So good and so hard too. Life almost always offers both. Our focus determines our outlook, doesn’t it? Life on … Continue reading Life on earth…

I’m 64 freakin’ years old. How the hell did this even happen. Feels like a couple days ago when Miss, Jordan, and I rode horses in Deer Valley Ranch (That’s us vintage 1993 on the back of that Cruise America RV). Blinked and it’s been 30 years. Like you, still a work in progress and … Continue reading Hope…

Today, Stage 7 of The Tour de France, Jasper Philipsen won the sprint finish. He’s now won each of the three sprint finishes in this years tour. Incredible feat. He also won the final stage of the 2022 TDF. Four in a row and his 5th Stage win in TDF overall. His nickname prior to … Continue reading Jasper the master…

There is a reason the second essential in the 12 Essentials of Personal Excellence playbook is titled Build your humility. You see, pride has been the biggest divider of humans since the beginning. If our aim is to unite with even one other, we're gonna have to build within a strong sense of self, all … Continue reading Pride…

I remember when this thought first came to me back in 2015. I was hiking with a couple clients in Arizona. One was limping badly toward the end of our nearly seven mile climb. Had a bum ankle. Was carrying a few extra lb’s. His physical therapist had him doing a few stretches but was … Continue reading Talent needs trauma…

I hope you have a Krit in your life. Life is an energy management problem and it’s yours to solve. Krit calls. I smile. Krit is my energizer bunny. She makes me go a little bit longer when she’s around. She’s heading over the Atlantic right now. Her pics and calls pick me up. We … Continue reading Krit…

Thanks for the many kind notes and calls over the past week. Very thankful for so much care. One of my few seared me with a PR on his pelly. Said he rode for me and put himself in the pain zone. Did an hour ride. Killed it. So, this morning, I decided to hop … Continue reading Together when apart…