Category: Motivational


  • Working in the Contrast

    In tattooing, contrast is everything. The sweet spot is balance. Creating meaning through clear separation between light and dark. ย Providing depth, while still leaving room for detail and texture.

  • Rough start

    If youโ€™re behind on your goals, your art, your training, or your callingโ€”good. That means youโ€™re carrying something real. Just donโ€™t confuse a pause with surrender.

  • Knowledge

    If youโ€™re going to get a tattoo, speak with authority, build something that lasts, or guide others, donโ€™t stop at knowing. Verify. Read the source. Ask better questions. Do the work. Thatโ€™s how knowledge becomes leverageโ€”and leverage, used well, becomes freedom.

  • Adding Color

    Adding Color

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    Thatโ€™s how real change works. ย Doubt will still show up. So will bad days, crowded rooms, and moments where the vision feels fuzzy. None of that means youโ€™re off course. It just means youโ€™re in it.

  • Vision – Sharpening the blade

    A vision isnโ€™t a contractโ€”itโ€™s a compass. It gives you something to aim at when the path gets unclear.

  • The gift of time

    Progress doesnโ€™t always look like praise. Sometimes it looks like showing up anyway. So I will keep showing up. Refining the collar. Softening the muzzle transitions. Writing alongside the workโ€ฆ and not waste the gift of time when itโ€™s given.

  • Not There Yet

    Either way, it helped. It gave me a way back into the present. And if youโ€™ve ever had one of those days where your mind drags you somewhere you fought like hell to leave behindโ€ฆ youโ€™re not alone.

  • Believing – Lessons paid forward

    Hearing that meant more to me than any award or medal ever could. It reminded me that leadership, much like humility, doesnโ€™t always fix everyone in the moment โ€” but when it lands, it can ripple forward for years.

  • Pearl Harbor – remembering in color

    Young men and women who were there with us, watching us honor the heroes who paved the way, and seeing themselves reflected as the next generation of warriors. Past and future standing in the same room, under the same roof that witnessed historyโ€ฆ thatโ€™s powerful.

  • Adversity – a part of life

    Ninety days isnโ€™t much in the grand scheme of life โ€” but when you show up every single day, even in small ways, it becomes its own kind of transformation.