My dad once told me: “You can do anything – just not everything.”
Lately, my movement practice has me wondering if I’ve forgotten that.

I’ve built this intentionally: a tool for just about any situation.

• Electric unicycle for the trails when they’re not wet
• E-mountain bikes for Kerry and me to adventure on
• Regular e-bikes to mindfully navigate our environment anywhere
• Paddleboards for when the trails are soaked
• Onewheel for the streets
• Motorcycle to mindfully arrive at work

Even writing that list makes me laugh – wtf, that’s a lot of stuff.

I love that my practice is adaptable. If something isn’t serving me, I’m willing to trade it out instead of collecting gear. But constantly thinking about what to swap or rotate is still energy spent sideways instead of forward.

There’s that theory: 10,000 hours makes you an expert. “The reps.”
If I’m honest, my 10,000-hour pursuit isn’t about mastering one device – it’s about building the playful spaces and infrastructure to enjoy the moment. In my head, it’s still the ride center. With my life experience, I’m probably closer to 10,000 hours in this world than I realize.

Yesterday brought it home. I took the unicycle to the trails, but they were damp – not enough to cancel the ride, but enough to make me question my tire grip. Flow never quite arrived. Later, I met up with John, my fellow one-wheeling, flow-chasing junkie. We stopped mid-ride, talked life, and got into our shared obsession with flow.

John’s OW path is interesting – he didn’t just buy a stock Onewheel from Future Motion. He had a VESC build commissioned by a friend he met at a four-day Onewheel festival. The VESC has all kinds of benefits, and every so often I think about building one myself. I love the therapeutic side of using my hands. But every time, I shut it down: What’s it really going to do for me? How is it adding to my “reps”?

John pushed back – told me to trust the process. Essentially stop thinking and just “do.” Doing connects you to people. He’s right. My “do” right now is the Mindful Movement Project and these posts. Would building a VESC be the next rep? I don’t know. Maybe.

And then there’s the perfect metaphor from later that same day – before the fire pit hangout with friends, Kerry and I grabbed our fold-out loveseat and I decided to try riding the unicycle while carrying it. Spoiler: it didn’t work. The wheel spun out, smacked me in the back of the leg, and I stumbled. Why share this? Because it’s exactly what happens when I push through a day that isn’t meant for me to “do everything.”

At the end of the day, my true “anything” is my family – Tyler, River, Utah, Cole, Kira, and my wife Kerry. With all my heart and soul, they are my center. The ride center dream comes second… or maybe, like our amazing blended family, it can be woven in so the two become one.

My takeaway? I can do anything, but not everything. The tools are great. The joy is real. But my focused reps belong in the things that matter most!