02 Aug 2022

Raise Your Standards
Create new standards and improve your life: This starts with changing your relationship to change. Now I don't often start things off by quoting Tony Robbins, but this quote was a game changer for me: 'Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.'- Tony Robbins Lately I've been having conversations about proactiv...

06 Jan 2021

Dave Holding His Two Babies in 2014
This week I am marking the beginning of my 8th year as a father of twins. How many jolts of responsibility are more powerful than jumping into parenthood? Not many. Content Warning: Mental Health Parenting has been a wild ride, but a very privileged ride for us in many regards. Everyone's had healthy bodies from the day we found out the kids were en route, which is amazing. For ...

31 Dec 2020

2020 When Shit Got Real
New Year's Resolutions are tricky. We pick them with our best interests in mind. We pick them because we know we're picking what we should do for ourselves in the next year. We're also often picking a thing that we've avoided. We're basically saying "I'm going to stop avoiding..." the gym or the diet or not-asking-for-a-raise or saving up for that trip. The trouble with simply attemp...