As we seek excellence, exploring morality and virtue helps us live well before God, others, and ourselves.

Striving for excellence as a physician requires intentionality, lifelong learning, humility, and surrounding yourself with excellent peers.

Recap of my 2024 reading list! Books sharpen the mind like exercise strengthens the body. Check out my top 5 picks—happy reading!

Well, it is back to school time.  It seems that the last half of summer flew by in a whirlwind – at times quite literally.  The past two...

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,...

On July 4, 1776, fifty-six men representing the 13 American colonies gathered in a small room in the Pennsylvania state house in...

As I sit here writing, I have just returned from an early morning run.  For the past decade I have made an increasing effort to engage in...

A life lived in default mode as a reaction to events will end up being less effective than one that is intentional.  We have discussed...

As I have grown and developed both personally and professionally, I have sought to find a way of classifying the various different...

“Jiu Jitsu is life”…. At least that’s what I have been told. Several years ago, my boys were invited to a birthday party at a local Jiu...

I don’t like pain and I certainly don’t like failure.  Neither are comfortable and neither make me feel good.  In fact, the latter if we...

Since the beginning of entropic history, we as humans have been searching for the fountain of youth.  There are two guaranteed dates that...

One of my favorite forms of teaching is Socratic questioning.  Ask my residents, they have probably been subjected at some point to this...

In our family we have a dinner-time ritual.  We go around the table and share our daily high, low, and bronco.  The high and low are...

What does it mean to be a man?  This is a question that I have wrestled with pretty much since I began to wonder if I was actually that...

January is officially over!  One month down in 2024.  This last month I participated in the DEF reset sponsored by Jocko Fuel, Train...

Reading is an important part of growing your mind.  This is the list of books that I completed in 2023.  It is a little shorter than...

Fitness is a great crucible for producing excellence in our lives. It has the direct effects of improving our health, stamina and health...

When I was a young boy, I had a fascination with the Civil War.  Now, you could say that the fascination was borne more out of an...

In the last post we discussed the pursuit of excellence in the context of mission.  The mission defines the path that we must follow. ...