Hope you enjoy the video – trying to mix up the content here at ol’ Fierce and Mighty. I do a lot of public speaking for work and, honestly, I enjoy doing it. If y’all like it, I will do some more. And if you are interested in nominating me for the Hartford Courant’s Webster [...]
Archive for category Mind
Grinding Towards Beauty
Mar 15
So yesterday I decided to avail myself of being so close to a few of the most amazing national parks in the United States, if not the world. The park of choice? Zion National Park in Springdale, Utah. This was really a two-part kind of initiative… because, you know… I’m all about efficiency! YEAH! OK, [...]
The B.S. of Busy
Mar 13
Let me ask you a very simple questions, my friends. How much of this sounds eerily familiar to you: “Yeah, I’m just SO insanely busy right now. I just don’t have any time to… Eat better/cook at home Read more Go to the gym Go church/pray/meditate/think Spend more time with my family/friends/alpaca herd Finish that [...]
I was able to get myself over to Mass today. I mean, I really have zero excuse for not doing so, especially during the easy, lulling pace of vacation. Now I don’t normally blog about things specific to my religious beliefs – my faith is something intensely personal to me, so I am not one [...]
Home of the Brave
Mar 10
If you were to have an in-depth conversation with the average person about what they might like to aspire towards in their own development as human beings, I would bet some part of their response would include being a bit more brave or courageous. Those exact words may not be used as part of the [...]
If you were to research the heaviest deadlift ever performed in a powerlifting competition, you would come across a lift of 1,015 lbs by Benedikt Magnusson from Iceland on April 2, 2011. In fact, our good friends at YouTube even have a video of the momentous occasion by this mountain of a man: Sweet. Mother. [...]
Welcome to the Suck
Mar 4
The suck welcomes thee. A book I read a few years back and enjoyed immensely was “Jarhead” by Anthony Swofford. It’s his personal story of being a Marine sniper during the first Gulf War and is both interesting and extremely well-written. One line from the book that always stuck with me was the greeting new [...]
The Potential of Potential
Feb 29
I wanted to get out a quick thought this AM that was inspired by the cartoon above from the always excellent Hugh McLeod at gapingvoid.com (I own one of his prints and it hangs proudly in my home office as a little reminder to myself to fight the status quo). If you haven’t checked out [...]
Every Step, A Building Block
Feb 27
My trusty new kicks. May they make me fly like the mythical shoes of Hermes. As I’ve written about before, I made the totally awesome (or epically stupid) decision to do a Tough Mudder in Vermont in May. Now, in preparing for that little life adventure, there was one thing I assiduously avoided as much [...]
Sometimes in life, you find something that inspires you and causes you to pursue it with wild abandon as a driving direction in your life. Not just a passing whim that somehow catches your attention, but something that alights like fire in your heart. Now THOSE are moments I think everyone seeks out and they [...]
