Author Archives: Gary Stotler

Are you borrowing from tomorrow to gamble on today? The power of small changes: Stacking Pennies to Personal Growth While our culture is pushing quick fixes and instant results, be the exception and stack your pennies.

Have you ever come across someone who is empty all the way to their core, yet you somehow end up carrying their burden? It wasn’t until recently that I learned how much lighter I feel without putting the weight of Hopeless on my back and carrying it up my mountain of life. Every day, I […]

My greatest insecurities lay between my neck and my waist… not because of the layers of loose skin and pounds of dormant relaxed muscle but because of the fear and secrets of what is still hiding beneath the mask the loose skin represents. Of course, I can feel the physical discomfort when I reach down […]

Are you chasing the right goal? Are your goals strong enough to carry you our of the darkness and into the light? I was having a deep intellectual conversation with myself the other day (Yes, I talk to myself out loud in a mirror. Try it, it might just change your life too.) and I […]

‘For a hundred days…I pick a pebble and cast it into the stream. If on the seventh day I passed by without remembering, I would not say to myself “Tomorrow I will cast two pebbles which will do as well”. Instead, I would retrace my steps and cast the pebble.’-The Richest Man in Babylon If […]

I needed to be awakened. I needed to see the light. I needed to have my heart broken in the middle of the night. It was in the darkest part of the night that I realized love was out of sight. I saw you before the railroad tracks and it turns out your heart was […]

100 miles from nowhere… The dark side of ultra-running I hadn’t felt pain or pleasure for so long, I climbed a mountain to find Hope and that’s where I found you. I didn’t know you were as broken as me, I just couldn’t see. From the moment I saw your eyes, I knew you might […]

2016- At a time I thought I was unstoppable, Leadville broke me. 2017- At a time I wanted to run away, Leadville gave me the space to disappear. 2018- At a time I was lost, Leadville found me. 2019- At a time I needed Hope, Leadville is where I found it.   2020- At a […]

I just wanted to feel… It had been so long since I had felt pleasure or pain, my soul wanted proof I was still alive. I ran. I ran as hard as I could. I ran as long as I could. In the end, I still couldn’t feel the deepest part of myself I had […]