Be Impeccable With Your Word

How to Have the Conversation You've Been Avoiding

By Siegfried "Sig" Tiegs Columbia, Missouri

                                              "I said I would go to Machu Picchu, so I did."

I got invited on a podcast a few weeks back. Real show, significant followin...

Everything You Know About Skunks Is Wrong

What else are you sure about that you've never checked?

By Siegfried "Sig" Tiegs Columbia, Missouri

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

— Commonly attributed to Mark Twain, who almo...

Why It Gets Harder Before It Gets Better

The Emotional Cycle of Change and the Valley Where Most People Quit

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

— Marcus Aurelius

You started something hard.

Maybe you put something down. Maybe it's a training block,...

And How to Become Sovereign Again

No man is free who is not master of himself.

— Epictetus

You said you'd stop. Probably more than once.

Nothing blew up. You didn't lose the job or wreck the car or get the talk from your spouse. Nobody staged an intervention. It was quieter than that.

The dr...

Why We Run and/or Ruck 9.11 Miles

Five years at Cooper's Landing

Somebody asks it every year. Usually at the starting line, usually with a nervous laugh, while adjusting a ruck or tying a shoelace before doing something hard.

Why are we doing this?

Fair question. Nobody makes you drive out to ...

She Wore It To A Funeral

A friend shared something with me that really made an impact on me.

She went to a funeral. Someone she loved. And underneath her clothes, she wore her Do Hard Things shirt.

For strength.

Nobody in that room saw it. There was no one to impress. No conversation to start. N...

"It is not the critic who counts… The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

— Theodore Roosevelt

Two Hours In

Two hours into the paddle on the Missouri River, the canoe flipped. Joe and I found ourselves in cold water with our g...