Pillar I
Fitness & Weight Loss
Goals thirty years in the making. Halfway there, my habits — at last — feel changed. Consume less. Move more.
A personal journal
The 53 Project
Notes on fitness, mindfulness, business, and the books that shape a life.
From the journal
A year of unwinding.
Twenty-five years of stress formed from the financial, political and social pressures of owning a small business does not float away overnight. But gradually, as I work to hand things off to the new owners, I have been able to relax. I am now calmer than I have been in years. And most of my remaining anxiety is habitual — a sort of muscle memory that reflexively takes over until I remind myself of everything that has changed.
I am quite certain I will never lose that "founder's energy." But I have put myself in a position where I can retrain it into a positive and more creative force. It will take continued mindfulness on my part to remember things are no longer dire, and the need for paranoia and fear has greatly diminished.
To that end, this could be a seminal year. Time to create, and encourage others to do so as well.
Pillar II
Relaxation & Mindfulness
Letting go of two decades of founder's anxiety. Learning the difference between presence and paranoia.
Pillar III
Action Is Character
Reading widely, writing honestly, and shipping the work — because what we repeatedly do is who we become.
"Action is character."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald