Reading Together: Can’t Hurt Me (Part 6)

This is our final week reading Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins together. We’ve spent the past six-plus weeks combing through Goggins’ story for lessons to apply to our lives. If anything we’ve faced the repeated lesson that while we can’t control everything to happen to us, we can control how we respond. Below are my reflections from chapters 10 and 11.

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Reading Together: Can’t Hurt Me (Part 4)

After an unplanned hiatus it’s time for week 4 of our reading Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins together. We’re reading it as a vehicle for our improvement. We’re don’t want to waste a great opportunity before us. We’re seizing the initiative to grow and emerge from this shutdown better than we began. Below are my reflections for reading chapters 6 and 7.

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Monthly Mash Up (May 2020)

One thing appears sure, 2020 will be a year unlike others in recent memory. Events and circumstances continue to change at a break neck speed. Hot cultural topics come and go as quickly as we’ve ever seen.

How do we respond in times like this? What can we do when life comes at us with such amazing speed?

We respond as we do at all other times. We focus on what remains within our control. One thing that forever remains within our hands is what we fill our minds with.

Below is a quick look at books I read in May. They contain ideas and principles that shape how I think about the world and shape how I interact in it. That’s what reading does. I hope you find at least one book below to pick up and fill your mind with. Few things could be so important.

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Reading Together: Can't Hurt Me (Part 3)

This is week 3 of our reading Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins together. We’re reading it as a vehicle for our improvement. We’re don’t want to waste a great opportunity before us. We’re seizing the initiative to grow and immerge from this shutdown better than we began. Below are my reflections for reading chapters 4 and 5.

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