Check-ins (Mindset, Triathlon and other blog posts)

22 Apr

When the Map Doesn’t Match the Terrain: Notes From the Asylum Between My Ears

By #ZT
In 2026 Check Ins, Agency, Discernment & Systems
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Literacy isn’t always limited to reading Every so often, a conundrum wanders across the asylum between my ears and refuses to leave quietly. The latest one arrived through a familiar doorway: someone encountering information that didn’t fit their existing frame

22 Apr

Top of Mind – Work Sphere Related

By #ZT
In !St;ll I Pers;st, Agency, Discernment & Systems, 2026 Check Ins
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As Ellucian Live Is Closing: The Reckoning and the Work A post crossed my feed this week — Simon Sinek noting that people don’t need my polished certainty; they need what I’m actually learning. That landed with the kind of

20 Apr

A very unplanned post today – but the subject matter as a father of kiddos – this haunts me

Charlize Theron – Retelling her lived experience – weapons/violence as a 15 year old girl As a Dad and ever observant – this hits hard Walking through the Browning Museum in Ogden on Saturday, I felt the old muscle memory

20 Apr

Stoic Discipline in a Neurodivergent House

Attitude when things are going well and ego wants to take credit. Both handles keep you from grabbing the wrong thing when life swings wide.

19 Apr

The Cliff I’ve Stood On Since Four

That hive rule is just the Golden Rule in work clothes — the whittled‑down heart of the commandments, the part Jesus said mattered most. Treat others as you’d treat yourself. Everything else is scaffolding.

18 Apr

Grief, Stoicism, and the Strange Work of Carrying What We Lose

A heart that’s been broken is a heart that’s been loved. One line from a song, but it names something I keep circling back to: grief doesn’t follow rules. It doesn’t care about your training cycle, your calendar, or the

17 Apr

Godfather counts da beans

By #ZT
In 2026 Check Ins, Agency, Discernment & Systems
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Actions, Cruelty, the performative “Family lens” in the corporate systems The rabbit hole I chased: This resonates because it names a pattern we rarely acknowledge. When uncertainty becomes the norm, companies lean harder on “family” language — not because it’s

14 Apr

A post during Neurodiversity Awareness Month

Rabbit hole post – A recent Stand4Kind post talked about the power of simple mental‑health check‑ins — naming what’s happening inside before it spirals. That’s what this practice has become for us: a way to help our kids map their

03 Apr

🌱 Spring, Weight, and Where Neutrality Actually Falls

By #ZT
In 2026 Check Ins, Personal Reflections & Check-ins
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Follow the White Rabbit! As I consider the spring cycle — Ostara, Pesach, Passover, Easter, the close of Ramadan, and the long exhale at the end of Lent — I came across this quote and went down a small rabbit‑hole