Weaver & Loom

It is easy to hide in a group, or a system, and pass the buck to someone else, to give excuses why YOU didn't take action to help others--or fight for your own dreams. 

There is always an excuse. And…

In all the years of the Tour-de-France, France had never won their nation’s own competition. That is, not until 2010, when the French cycling team hired a man named Dave Brailsford to coach them.

Cue…

Vilfredo Pareto was a leading economist, sociologist, and engineer in the 1800s. He is best known for the Pareto Principle, which is now known as the 80/20 Rule.[i]

In short, the Pareto Principle exp…

In my early twenties, I looked at leaders around me who, so I thought, only needed four to six hours of sleep per night. I envied them, so I decided to give it a try.

After a week of getting only six…

It was the summer of 1910. Virtually the entire world had been explored, and in the minds of many, only one frontier remained—the South Pole. Thousands of miles away from civilization, Antarctica rem…

As a global culture we are flooded with information, and with the more information we gather the more prone we are to paralysis.

It is through repetition and continuous action that we are able to dev…

We all have dreams.

And we all like to talk about them.

It makes us feel good, warm and fuzzy. But sharing your dreams with others is a baaad idea. 

There are one of FOUR things that will happen when…

Do you have a skewed view on adventure? Are you seeking the next high but are continually left disappointed? 

In my new book, Anchored the Discipline to Stop Drifting, I share how we have idolized ad…

Six years ago, 2013, my whole life changed. My western culture was confronted and I set out on a process, a journey, to better understand my culture, the culture of the Middle East--and how to life a…

Those who succeed are those who never turn back. 

Here is a funny story of a great explorer who DID turn back . . . okay the story isn't FACTUAL . . . but it is TRUE. In fact it is a story most peopl…

Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Fawziah al-Bakr, Annie Kenney and tens of thousands of other stood up (or sat down) for their rights.

In this episode we don't focus so much on the courage and …

For hundreds of years mankind tried to break a four minute mile.

People tried everything to break the barrier... even had bulls chasing them. 

Scientists said it would never be done. They said the hu…

For thousands of years slavery was an accepted part of human life. Until one day, William Wilberforce stood up and laid down his life to see the African Slave Trade abolished. 

The problem is, even t…

Everyone said human flight was impossible. Mankind had tried for thousands of years... then one the impossible became possible in the most unlikely of ways.

The Wright brothers had everything going a…

When you are thrown back into your old environment if you aren't careful, it doesn't take long until you slip back into old habit.

Yesterday (episode 77) we talked about some of why we can so easily …

Have ever had a life changing experience, whether is was a summer vacation, going off to uni, or an incredible weekend conference--but upon returning home you found yourself return to old life and th…

What do you do when you have had a life changing experience . . . but all your friends back home are still the same?

Maybe you went to University, maybe you took a trip, or moved to another city or c…

What do you do when you encounter people resistant to change? (Which was a questions asked by @m_xcii on Instagram)

In short--nothing. 

Yeah nothing. Forget about people resistant to change. Instead …

One of the listeners of Weaver and Loom, Abdullah, asked a question on change--and brought up some bad advice some of his friends have been giving him. Namely, don't change or you'll no longer be you…

There are three states of being we can live under.

Curses: Do good get bad.

Karma (Well REAL Karma is something different and we cover that): Do good get good, do bad get bad.

Blessing: Do bad get AW…