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This morning’s M5T could easily have been a Monday 50 Things, but I chose 5 that I thought would be most positive to start this week, this month, and this last quarter of the year.
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This morning’s M5T could easily have been a Monday 50 Things, but I chose 5 that I thought would be most positive to start this week, this month, and this last quarter of the year.
This morning’s M5T takes a look at life lessons through the simplistic yet profound perspective of a five, soon to be six-year-old.
This morning’s M5T focuses on some lighter business brilliance as a distraction from the mess out there.
Twenty-two years ago. A day that should never be forgotten. This morning’s M5T shares the words of others about that day twenty-two years ago.
With today being a day to celebrate labor here in the land of the Red, White, and Blue, labour north of the 49th -- or just simply a day off to grill out and drink some libations, this morning’s M5T’s labo(u)rs through thinking about thought.
Two words that uplift rather than tear down. Two words that are positive and empower. This morning’s M5T looks again at two words.
I find a bench in the middle of the fairway, put my cameras down and I just sit, watch, listen, appreciate, pray, and think. This morning’s M5T ponders Big.
The grandmother sat down and calmly went back to reading a book. I can use more calm. Our world can use more calm. This morning’s M5T considers positive C words that we can all use more of in our lives.
This morning’s M5T takes a look at You.
And so, I pondered. Many things. I will however offer up five packing-ponderings as a light-hearted and simple M5T to start your week.
Red flags got me thinking about stopping. And starting. And M5T took form.
Today’s M5T considers recalibrating to be resolute and determined for the most effective use of time for the last half of this year.
Today’s M5T considers some of the characteristics of living wealthy that, no matter where you are financially, anyone can adapt in their lives.
As a public service yet again this year, M5T splits the difference between the two days and looks at some of the differences between these two great countries of ‘Merica and the land of Eh, abooot, and overly polite apologies.
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... while chasing fast cars around the track with my fast glass, sitting in the rain, enjoying some real poutine, and flying back to welcomed humidity here in the south, this morning’s M5T considers and questions things that we can take in our lives.
This morning’s M5T takes control to start the week.
Sunday night is here and pressed for time as I prep for the upcoming week, I am thankful to be able to dive into the M5T archives and pull out a missive from 3 years ago that I wrote about wisdom garnered from Ferris.
A simple photograph of a payphone provided a real-life metaphor for this morning’s M5T to consider disconnecting, connecting, and reconnecting in life.
Today’s M5T reflects on Memorial Day; a day in which America honors and remembers those military men and women who gave their lives defending this country.
A few years ago, realizing I needed to change some things in my life, I gave myself five 30-day challenges. I dug them up and this morning’s M5T once again poses these challenges.
As I do each year, this morning’s M5T is an homage to the women that have influenced our lives. The women we call Mom.
Right Here Right Now. This morning’s M5T centers on just that.
Contrails became a metaphor of life for me; of where I have come from, of where I am today, and of where I am headed. This morning’s M5T is etched with questions I’ve asked myself from observing contrails.
Jim Rohn was quoted to have said “you are the average of the five people you send the most time with.” I’ve always been fascinated by how the people in our lives, the relationships we have, and the choice of who we spend our time with will directly influence our decisions, our direction, and the quality of our life. This morning’s M5T considers our best Five people in our lives.
I’ve been savoring life in fresh ways of late and this image seemed fitting for this morning’s M5T as we find some time to savor the start of a new week.
Easter is once again here. I have found myself subtly humming, and not so subtly (translated – at the top of my lungs) singing some of my favorite hymns that have been a part of my life for these 60 years. This morning’s M5T shares some of those hymns and the stories behind them.
Messy. Confused. Cluttered. Sloppy. Disordered. Unruly. Hectic. Frenzied. If a word can sum up what is going on in the world right now, it’s chaotic. This morning's M5T looks at the reciprocal bonds of chaos, change, and constancy.
Three words that never failed to get hearts pumping, adrenaline flowing, and the perceived fear of bodily harm or worse if any such challenge was accepted. This morning’s M5T leaves you with some double dares for life.
Retired Colonel Bill Wheeler celebrated his 105th birthday Friday at Wileys Championship BBQ.
In this M5T redux refined, here are a few ways some of the worlds’ best and brightest adopted to keep their days productive.
..... this Monday morning I drop some F-Bombs that are far more uplifting, healthier, and less-likely to be autocorrected on my computer.
I had the track to myself as I stepped out of the elevator onto the roof of the grandstand. I took pause to appreciate the simplicity and beauty of the moment, to center my mind, and to thank God for such a gift as this.
Cleaning up some images in storage this last week took me down a long road of reminiscing over epic memories and moments that surpassed the usual or ordinary in my life. This morning’s M5T shares some epic moments that still feel larger than life.
We’ve all been confronted with the good, the bad and ugly of uses of power by others. We’ve all used the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of power for ourselves. This morning’s M5T considers Power Moves that enable us to live better, love better, and to simply be better, if only for ourselves first.
This morning’s M5T is inspired by a Parisian couple, who I assume have long since passed, framed with quotes of others who have a way with words about love.
As I walked through the paddocks and then took pause to sit on the pit-wall to take in the moment, this morning’s M5T took form as I mused on ‘One”.
The 61st running of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona was another success.
An unexpected image framed this morning’s M5T with thoughts of consciously seeking and living The Unexpected.
The beauty, the color, and the texture of a tapestry as seen from the front is juxtaposed by the back of a tapestry that looks disjointed, hectic, frayed, frantic and knotted. In a word, chaotic.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 39 years old when he was assassinated almost 55 years ago on the balcony outside of room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. King spent less than 13 years campaigning for civil rights and racial equality and was arrested 30 times for his work. This morning’s M5T shares some quotes from the man who had a dream.
A meandering five-hour drive back to Savannah after Christmas weekend gave me ample time to think about what else I could do. This morning’s M5T asks some questions inspired by Encanto.
2023 Tybee Polar Plunge
If you’ve read M5T over the years, you’ll know that I don’t believe in resolutions. Rather, I start each new year with 5 words that I will try to incorporate and internalize into my life for the year. So, with thanks for the inspiration from King João V, bats, and to you for taking the time to read these words, this morning’s M5T shares my 5 words for 2023.
With one week left in 2022, in between travel, family, friends, food, and libations, I have once again begun to make lists to start 2023. This morning’s M5T lists some of my lists. What and who is on yours?
This morning’s M5T was written with sprezzatura and a nod to the art of living as such.
This morning, M5T is an homage to the venerable Zamboni that all rink-rats dream of driving.
IMHO, this morning’s M5T offers up a lighthearted start to the week.
Today M5T considers the wisdom that can only be garnered from the passage of time, from all the Novembers and the other months of each year, and a willingness to fully embrace and experience all that life unfolds for us each and every day.
As we start this week leading up to Thanksgiving, I have spent a lot of time being just that. Thankful. Thankful for so many and so much in my life and yet I have this sense of restlessness as the end of the year approaches. A restlessness that, I think, is a healthy state of state. A state of mind of pressing on. Pressing on to affirmative attitudes, constructive changes, elevated expectations, and fearless faith. And so, this morning’s M5T Presses On.