#98 Monster
A great man isn't one who is weak and harmless. Men who are capable of great and terrible things are the men who are needed in our world.
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Joe Weigant
Mar 75 min read
#85 Now
There is no “there,” for we can never be anywhere but here. There is no “then,” or, “when,” for there can never be any other time than...
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Joe Weigant
Feb 235 min read
#83 Roller Coaster
I love this scene in 1989's Parenthood. When everything is stressed and tense, grandma floats through with her story about the roller...
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Joe Weigant
Jan 112 min read
#80 The Warrior
The warrior never uses power over The warrior uses power for The warrior never torments the weak The warrior pushes the weak behind him...
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Joe Weigant
Jan 43 min read
#79 Ego Trip
I went on an ego trip and wrecked my car. That’s right. I was pushing it along a curvy mountain highway, zooming and swerving. Hard...
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Joe Weigant
Oct 25, 20235 min read
#72 Choose the Big Rocks
There is an old story that was once propounded by Steven Covey in his seminal work, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” On the...
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Joe Weigant
Oct 6, 20236 min read
#70 The Second Arrow
There is a Buddhist parable about a man walking through a forest. Suddenly he is hit by an arrow. The pain is immense. Immediately, his...
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Joe Weigant
May 28, 20238 min read
#51 Water and Life
When talking to my clients, I’ve made many a metaphor of life. Most recently I’ve compared life to water. I compare how we live our lives...
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Joe Weigant
May 7, 20234 min read
#48 Stretching Hurts
Pavel Tsatsuline has written many books, most of which I’ve read. Decades ago, he wrote “Relax Into Stretch.” In the first chapter of the...
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Joe Weigant
Apr 29, 20235 min read
#47 Increasing Your Emotional Clock Speed
Clock Speed is a measurement of how many times per second a CPU (the central processor of a computer – it’s brain) can execute commands....
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Joe Weigant
Apr 16, 20236 min read
#45 Redemption
There I was, feverishly writing tonight’s blog with reckless abandon. As I saved my rough draft, I was warned by Microsoft Word that...
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Joe Weigant
Apr 9, 20235 min read
#44 The Fullness of Emptiness
In 1993 NASA made repairs and upgrades to the Hubble Telescope. This allowed NASA in Christmas 1995 to perform an experiment in...
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Joe Weigant
Mar 18, 20238 min read
#41 Quicksand
I’m not a big fan of sports. I never have been. I was always a skinny kid, so I could never play. My dad wouldn’t even let me be a...
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Joe Weigant
Mar 12, 20235 min read
#40 Overcorrecting: Hitting the Ditch
She gripped the wheel tightly, focused solely on the arduous task at hand. The snow was thick and coming down in fat, puffy blobs. The...
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Joe Weigant
Feb 27, 20232 min read
#38 The Cow and the Buffalo
There is an interesting allegory about the cow and the buffalo. The allegory involves how they each handle storms. When the cows see the...
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Joe Weigant
Feb 18, 20236 min read
Blog Post #37: The Easy Life
Oh boy how I love to watch those movies where the protagonist wakes each day, brushes his teeth, has a great day at work at his boring...
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Joe Weigant
Feb 5, 20234 min read
Rappelling Into Stress
When my wife and I started having kids, we made the decision to homeschool them. This meant my wife needed to stay home and maintain the...
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Joe Weigant
Jan 28, 20236 min read
Crisis and Opportunity
A book I recently listened to on Audible (if you aren’t listening to audiobooks or podcasts while driving are you even driving?? Lol) and...
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Joe Weigant
Jan 15, 20234 min read
Healing is Tough, but Worth it.
In August 2021, Hulu released an eight-part series called. “Nine Perfect Strangers.” Based on The New York Times best-selling book by...
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Joe Weigant
Dec 3, 202213 min read
When Sh&t Goes Sideways
When Sh&t goes sideways Life isn’t always smooth. In fact, it’s rarely smooth. Life can sometimes be one shitshow after another with...
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