personal-development

2025 Running Year In Review: Committing To Boundaries

This was a breakout year for me however, it didn’t start in 2025. It was 2024, a year where I plateaued. I didn’t stick to my boundary between work and personal life. I was still running consistently and racing often. On the outside, it looked like things were normal but for me, I knew IContinue reading “2025 Running Year In Review: Committing To Boundaries”

Helping Mentees Find A Personal Vision

It’s pretty common for mentors to assume that their mentees have a vision for themselves. In fact, there are many that start off mentoring where they think that their mentees have one that is similar to their own. That assumption, however, is frequently false. It isn’t just that there are differences. Most mentees haven’t spentContinue reading “Helping Mentees Find A Personal Vision”

Using Audiobooks to Learn a New Language While Running

For the past two months, I’ve been learning Spanish during my training runs. It started as an experiment to see if I could do something with the gobs of hands free time I have while running. I already run almost every day and generally it is for more than an hour. I basically spend whatContinue reading “Using Audiobooks to Learn a New Language While Running”

Grit, Chips, and M&Ms: How Ultras Became My Personal Growth Plan

I didn’t expect one ultra marathon to have such a big impact on my life. When I signed up to do my first last year, I had several marathons under my belt and was at the point that I felt I could comfortably keep going after completing one. I saw there was literally one thatContinue reading “Grit, Chips, and M&Ms: How Ultras Became My Personal Growth Plan”

Using A Weekly Book Study To Help Remote Mentorship

In an early blog post, I talked about how mentorship has suffered in the remote setting. Our opportunities to have ad hoc mentoring moments has been dramatically reduced; Zoom doesn’t let them happen. So as mentors, we have to put more time into intentional ones. One activity that I recently have had success with isContinue reading “Using A Weekly Book Study To Help Remote Mentorship”

Exercising Your Grit: A Lifestyle of Personal Achievement

I am an active marathoner though I only came to it in my mid 40ies. I was motivated initially to get faster at my halves and it has definitely done that. In following a regiment of weekly long runs with daily short ones, I finally broke four hours at the Bend, Oregon marathon this year.Continue reading “Exercising Your Grit: A Lifestyle of Personal Achievement”