Paul Lieto

Paul Lieto

Paul is co-founder of Downshift Adventures and Editor at RaceCenter Magazine.

Dirty Good Transitions

Dirty Good Transitions

We’ve been quiet with our posting and writing this year as uncertainty has been heavy. We’ve planted ourselves, we’ve uprooted ourselves, we’ve embarked on humble adventures, done some big races, dealt with injury, pursued more knowledge and continue to explore…

Fear is Good, Failure Necessary

Fear is Good, Failure Necessary

Fear is good. Failure is necessary. I could end this post here and just hope you, the reader, accept that as fact, but most of us have grown up under the fiction that fear is weakness and failure is unacceptable.The…

Essentialism

Essentialism

To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make.” —Greg Mckeown