Healthy, Happy — and Why “Happiness” Feels So Hard When I ask people, “What would make next year a success?”  the most common answer I hear is simple: “I want to be healthy and happy.” Health, I’ve written about before—metabolic flexibility, rest and effort, the dance between individual well-being and community responsibility. Happiness, however, is harder. Not because it’s mysterious, but because we often confuse a fleeting emotion with a state of being. When most people say

Overall:  As we approach the end of the year, I need to spend the month of December solidifying a plan for 2026. This year was one of the less intentional years I’ve had. Personally, I want to be deliberate about finding ways to write more, read more, and be intentional about continued education. Family - really want to support my wife and kids with their own development outside of the home - start to explore. Spiritually - considering doing another course of bible in the yea

Faith, Myth, and the Search for Meaning The biggest question behind faith often returns to the “original mover” — who created all of this, and what’s the point? When we talk about spirituality, we often use the word myth . In this context, myth  doesn’t mean falsehood; rather, it refers to the story we tell ourselves to make sense of existence. It’s our framework for understanding who we are, where we came from, and what it all means. As such we all have a myth based on our i

Training:  M:  Bike - read  Tu:  Squat: 460x3, 430x4, 405x16 Bench: 295x3, 275x4, 260x10  Pull up: BW x5x6 ECHO Bike: sprint intervals  W:  Comp BJJ  Thursday  OFF Friday  BJJ  Sat:  OHP: 205x3, 190x4, 180x15  Rack pull: 500x10x4  Run: LSS 30 min  Sun: BJJ & Sauna  Overall:  Challenging week. Have successfully put in the sprint intervals the past couple of weeks, but have taken an off day where I should be doing tempos from a run standpoint. Still trying to determine if this