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Joe Weigant
Apr 25, 20245 min read
#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, 20245 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
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 14, 20234 min read
#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, 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
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
Dec 18, 20223 min read
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 10, 20224 min read
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 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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Joe Weigant
Nov 5, 20226 min read
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 23, 20225 min read
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 15, 20225 min read
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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