“In the gym, if you experience no stimulus your muscles won't grow. If you step under 10,000 pounds your body will break.Life is similar.Too much challenge makes life hard, but so does too little.”- James Clear Great analogy. It’s such a delicate balance it’s hard to find it. Put the pressures of a pandemic under... Continue Reading →
Faith x Form = Flow: The Podcast Version (7 min Audio)
An Outcast from Lake Michigan This is a short on the go audio version of a post I did today for IBtP. Hope you enjoy the podcast! Click the link below. https://anchor.fm/shawn-ward/episodes/Faith-x-Form--Flow-e18a438 As always appreciate you listeners and readers! ✌🏻 Shawn
The Rule of Three
What’s your basis or foundation for the start of your day? Do you have a specific filter or guide that you want to see fulfilled or answered to in each day in order for it to feel really accomplished? Something when you think about it, pervades through all the noise and all that you do... Continue Reading →
Be Careful, Remember Why Your Signed Up
Grind got you down? Forgot what your passion for joining your current work drive was? Forgot what made you want to try it as a career? We’ve all been there. I think more than anything else 2020 was a big huge pause button for us to recall why we choose the careers we choose. We... Continue Reading →
Quote Roulette: James Clear
Today’s quote was exactly what I needed to read. It popped up in my usual spot. Creating my intention for the day, writing and reflecting on the day’s intended outcome, and then boom! In my face. “Know what you want. Follow a trajectory where what you want is a possible outcome. Build a system to... Continue Reading →
1,2,3 for Week #25
Bridging the Gap Bringing a new week to you. This week was a great week of intentional studies and learning. I know that will show up here. Personal development is probably a forethought for most of us. What if you were wrong. This was my proposal over at the The Well for this week’s podcast.... Continue Reading →
1,2,3 Week #18
Spring 2021 Felt a bit more like spring this week. Blooms all over the place, then so is my allergies as well. Had some great luck with giving myself time for me, so I got some deeper dives into the content I have for you this week I really hope you enjoy. Get outside. We’ve... Continue Reading →
Reflect and Reset Day 5: A Story of Sorts
The fork in the road, which path to take? What is something in your life you really want deliver on? Once you have it, if you could make choices today that help you achieve the ideal state, you knew the outcome of those choices made would be, how would you go about starting out trying... Continue Reading →
7 Point List and Cup of Joe 1.19.21
Missed the window again for the weekend. Maybe what I need to do here is create one I can do anytime, I can call it a “Sunday” or weekend list? Just when it strikes me, do it. But does that make me less accountable to a deadline each week when I do it like that?... Continue Reading →
The Well Podcast: Day 3 Reflect and Reset
Day 3 we explore the habit of reflecting on our previous week. I share in this cast some of the learns I have going through three different reflection questions. As you answer them, they give you great context to be intentional in the week ahead. I hope you like the cast, always, thank you for... Continue Reading →