Reflection: My Goals For 2019

Billy/ January 31, 2019/ Fitness, People, Reflection

Last week I shared a few of my goals for 2018 and how I fared on them, so I thought it might be cool to get a few of my goals for 2019 written down as well. One marked difference for me in 2019 is that I am laying out fewer goals. I feel like my goal-setting routine and regimen is

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Review: Deskbound by Kelly Starrett

Billy/ January 29, 2019/ Uncategorized

A few years ago I stumbled onto a blog that shared seven exercises to undo the damage done to one’s musculature from sitting. That blog included a recommendation of another book by Kelly Starrett called Becoming A Supple Leopard, which I quickly read and reviewed. I seriously devoured the book in a couple of days because I was so fascinated

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Reflection: Looking Back At My Goals For 2018

Billy/ January 24, 2019/ Uncategorized

Each year, as I start one year and end another, I like to take some time to look back over goals for the previous year, to reflect, and to recalibrate. In recent years, I’ve been able to track some of these goals more frequently and diligently by using a Passion Planner to as a tool to keep me on track.

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Review: Resilience by Eric Greitens

Billy/ January 22, 2019/ Review

A couple years ago, I sat down in a bookstore and read Navy SEAL Eric Greiten’s first book, The Heart And The Fist and subsequently wrote a review. In my bookstore exploration I also discovered he had just written a new book, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom For Living A Better Life. During that time I also discovered Greitens was also running

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Leadership and Executive Coaching

Billy/ January 3, 2019/ Coaching, Training

In January 2016, I launched a personal commitment to develop in a whole new arena, coaching leaders. Since roughly 2013, both my friend Jake and myself have benefitted greatly from working with a Leadership/Executive Coach to improve our self-leadership, our management, and our ability to bring the best service possible to our supporters at Nuru as well as the more than 120,000 beneficiaries and over 200 leaders we work with in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria.