The following is an excerpt from Train For Something Greater: An Athlete’s Guide to Spiritual Fitness available at Amazon.com. The View From The Floor CrossFitters have much in common: language (WOD, AMRAP, Pukie), diet (Paleo-Zone-Primal), apparel (Lulu, Vibram, Inov-8), and philosophy (pain is weakness leaving the body). Before we started talking, eating, dressing, and thinking alike, we shared […]
Archives for August 2012
My Coffee Shop Nemesis (The Real Reason We Moved From Tulsa to Austin)
I’m about to share something I’ve never told anyone before: the real reason we moved from Tulsa to Austin just over three years ago. But first, I have to give you some context by explaining why I ended up working from a particular Starbucks in Tulsa almost everyday. It wasn’t until I moved to Tulsa […]
August 15, 2012 by 3 Comments
Five Lessons I’ve Learned From Working in Coffee Houses
As promised in a previous post, here’s a rundown of some of the lessons I’ve learned from past coffee shop experiences. The first place from which I tried to work was the Café at the Barnes & Noble near my office in Bellingham, Washington. Going there was a rookie mistake. Something only someone who had […]
August 2, 2012 by 8 Comments
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons