#90 I'm an old truck
Trucks are advertised as rough and rugged, but do we use them that way? Same with our bodies.
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Joe Weigant
- Feb 23
- 5 min
#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
- Oct 25, 2023
- 5 min
#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, 2023
- 6 min
#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, 2023
- 8 min
#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 14, 2023
- 4 min
#49 The Greatest Sword Ever Made
The 2003 film, “Kill Bill Vol 1” introduced us to Kiddo. She awakens form a 4-year coma and seeks revenge on the rest of her assassin...
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Joe Weigant
- May 7, 2023
- 4 min
#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 30, 2023
- 5 min
#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
- Mar 18, 2023
- 8 min
#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, 2023
- 5 min
#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, 2023
- 2 min
#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, 2023
- 6 min
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, 2023
- 4 min
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 29, 2023
- 6 min
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
- Dec 18, 2022
- 3 min
Tear Another Page
When I was younger, I loved those little daily desk calendars. Often, they had quotes, sayings, or comics on them. Each day you could...
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Joe Weigant
- Dec 11, 2022
- 4 min
Earning Your Tree Rings
What do your rings tell you? At a meeting I attended earlier today, a discussion began on a person’s age. One member suggested we cut him...
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Joe Weigant
- Dec 4, 2022
- 13 min
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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Joe Weigant
- Nov 5, 2022
- 6 min
Don't Limit Your Challenges, Challenge Your Limits
What is Life Without Challenges? Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits. Do you challenge yourself? Do you push yourself to...
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Joe Weigant
- Oct 24, 2022
- 5 min
Fix the problem, not the blame.
In the 1993 movie “Rising Sun” starring Sir Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, Wesley Snipes is complaining to Sean Connery… (pardon the...
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Joe Weigant
- Oct 16, 2022
- 5 min
There is No Opponent
I’ve always considered Bruce Lee to a philosopher over a martial artist. Yes, his training, conditioning, and skill as a martial artist...
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