Author: Chet

Happy New Years Eve. Let’s get to work. Actually, lets get to opus. Let’s live a life in pursuit of our Magnum Opus. Thanks for the inspiration BTL band, family, friends, and clients. It’s been a helluva year. God, help us all dream and do. God, help me make 2022 even better. God, bless this … Continue reading Anais and Bobby…

David’s dream looks really cool when you see the hardware. I mean c’mon man, who doesn’t want to have a room filled with Grammy’s and great art. Here’s what we tend to overlook when it comes to eighteen years of effort - we forget the grind. We forget how hard we labored. We forget how … Continue reading Do it again…

Eighteen years ago, BTL was in her early, formative years. I did a three day introduction to BTL for my oldest son, Jordan, a bunch of his high school friends and people from our Church. It was so much fun to take them through the basics of BBTL. OPUS, PoP, and CORE were words we … Continue reading David’s dream…

I’ve been retelling my story of losing consciousness on Mountain Eight in Breckinridge, Colorado back in 2008. Here’s a shortened version for your consumption. Chew on this one for awhile. It was a beautiful summer morning, Jordan and I were mountain biking before breakfast, when I came around the last switchback like a bat out … Continue reading A&O X 1…

Yesterday, during practice 340, we read Day 340 in BBTL and got after it. The learning was out of bounds, off the charts, borderline insanity, at least to me. You see this system recently installed a new system. Game changer. Paradigm shift which always comes with lots of resistance and growing pains. The edge has … Continue reading Reminders, reminders, reminders…

A client practice this am ended with this writing. He asked me to start every future practice with this reminder. I’m giving it to you too. Enjoy… We started with your learning from this past week. Actually we started with some prep for your Board meeting. I reminded you that you catastrophize stuff thats really … Continue reading Reminders…

I just finished my third read of this book. My first was in 2005 when the book was published. I didn’t know how to read a book back then. No writing, just highlights and underlining. My second read was back in 2011. Some writing. Some learning. Some extrapolating. I just finished my third read today … Continue reading Six minutes…

Jim Gant (both of ‘em) love this phrase. They credit it to me. When studying the life of John Adams, I discovered his nightly prayer with his children. He didn’t have a lot of time, you know, back in the Revolution, so he was ccd. Every night he kissed them and told them: Be good. … Continue reading Be good. Do good. Be with…