Category: Dear Son

Ownership determines motivation, work

quote about leadership vision on a wall
Try and fail, or not try. You’ll be judged either way.

Motivated to dream?

Your imagination is the preview of your life’s coming attractions.

The aspects of the most important things are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.

The greater your ownership, the greater your motivation.

Take your vision for your future, as an example…your vision that your future life is not only better than now, but it’s much better than now!

Discipline comes from focus.
Focus comes from motivation.
Motivation comes from goals.
Goals come from dreaming.
Dreams come from hope.

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To each their own, work

To each their own.

Live and let live.

Live and learn.

Dear Son, our life equals our habits. Our habits equal our results.

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Live and let live, work

sanibel island florida
Sanibel Island Florida…all time favorite beach vacations.
Problem or Opportunity?
Group Hug
Group Hug.
child at beach sunset
Classic reverse sunset.

Live and let live.

Kinda like freedom.

People will work differently than you.

People will work better than you.

People will work worse than you.

People will like how you work.

People will dislike how you work.

Through it all, remember this mantra…

Live and let live.

Insight: This is what you want others to do for you as well.

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Live and learn, work

three people at Sperry Glacier
We hiked to Sperry Glacier in 2025. From the airport 35 miles to Lake McDonald Lodge (LML). From LML, 22 miles roundtrip hike with 5,000′ elevation gain and loss. There is a travel hack though. We know it and it’s the only way this worked for us.

Live and learn.

Three keys to living, learning, and growing:

  1. Have fun
  2. .think .differently
  3. Lean into discomfort

Remove any one of those three and regret grows like a weed.

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Let’s make “SYDK” a category, work

rustic cabin and people playing cards
That remarkable time when Sperry Chalet, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), a special card game called Dominion, and our Son happened simultaneously.

Funny how stress can make obvious, important things invisible.

My stress?

First, i need to re-label the topic.

Instead of stress, i’m using opportunity and challenge interchangeably.

My current and biggest opportunity is learning how to lean into the discomfort of life-stage changes. And to thrive in the change.

Looking on all five blogs what is obvious was invisible to me until 10 minutes ago.

All five blogs have “Quotes” as the most used category.

All five blogs have “Dear Son” as the second-most used category.

In hindsight, it’s a blinding flash of the obvious.

Note: What is also invisible is that “Quotes” and “Dear Son” are wonderfully codependent. Hadn’t recognized that until just now. Cool.

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