Curiosity, Perspective, Connection, and Fulfillment From The Way Of The Bonfire With Nate Riggle

Special thanks to my older brother, “The Professor”, Bret Riggle, for breaking the complexity of so much of this down into understandable concepts for me. Time, is the variable that we can’t ignore if we care about connection and fulfillment. In this episode we get into broadening perspective on what it is beyond just being something that traditional clocks measure. History, Scie...

Installment number three in the ongoing “Lessons From Everywhere” series, I share lessons learned from several conversations I had sitting on a bench with blind and visually impaired people waiting for the same train as me outside a center for the blind at one of the stops on my daily commute. Sometimes the people with the most perspective and awareness, are the ones who can’t se...

Quick concept today. Before Dory ever said “just keep swimming” on Finding Nemo, I had learned the simple concept of how to navigate on an island. “Keep Going, Keep Going.” Its kinda silly, but it sure helps keep you in motion and tends to work to get your bearings when you feel lost in anything. Enjoy this one. ——– If you are getting value out of the show...

Today is story time. Climbing a mountain with my brother and the unexpected lessons I learned about people on the way up and down. Its a good episode for anyone who feels they aren’t as good as they once were, to see a perspective that shows there are better things to think about. —– If you are getting value out of the show please share with someone you know. I’d love it if...

This challenge is almost too simple. Go put more fun into everything you do. Be more fun this week. Switch your daily fun percentage from 10% of the time, to 90% of the time. And consciously pay attention to the difference it makes in everything else. Let me know about your experience with this challenge on instagram @wayofthebonfire. Or send an email to nate@wayofthebonfire.com. Enjoy!

The second installment in the ongoing “Lessons from everywhere” series where we believe you can learn valuable lessons from just about anything. A lifetime of fishing has brought me way more lessons than just the 13 + 1 in this episode, but this should distill a good bit of it down into some solid nuggets of wisdom. You will become better at fishing, at experiencing fishing, as well as...

Sometimes we think the people who have given us great advice and guidance are always right. Its a weird shortcut we take once we have a little trust built up. Is any human ever always right? Well then that would make them not human wouldn’t it. On this episode I share lessons learned from taking bad advice from good people, and one way of thinking about how to stop doing that. If you are get...

Some things in life are things we do once. Some things for a while. Some things we try. Some things we do on and off, and some we never stop. When we consciously decide and commit to never stop something, it becomes confounding and compounding. We discuss what we can do to control what is conditional and what is unconditional. The commitment makes it inevitable and infinite in its impact. A commit...

My number one lesson learned in the last year on gaining clarity and unblocking the things you did not know were holding you back. Its a brand new “Riggleism” from yours truly. “Learn to let go from the get go”. When you hold on to the wrong things, resent, personalize, or defend as a default, it is blinding and the enemy of connection and fulfillment. If you are getting va...

Conversations are underrated. Because we waste the bigger opportunities hidden in so many of them. I think they contain the key or the map leading to everything and anything we could possibly want or need. But we let our fear, egos, indifference, ignorance, and impatience get in the way. This episode is chock full of tactics and principles from personal experience, and decades of mistakes on learn...

In this one, we have movie references and two questions to stay focused on what will or won’t help a situation. Would it help? How is this helping me? If you are enjoying the show, or its having an impact, please share with someone you know, so we can bring more good stuff, more often. I’d love to connect with you and hear your thoughts, and feedback on the podcast or a particular show...

Finally, we land on the 4th and uniting element of The Way Of The Bonfire. The Chemical Chain Reaction or Connection! Enjoy!

Some people bring a presence that is contagious in a good way. Sometimes we are in a great mood and state of being and we don’t even realize how we got there. Its usually not just how you rolled out of bed, but is strongly based on a choice you made, or someone else’s influence. Today I share stories from the life of Big Rig that we can use to purposely and intentionally develop that m...

We don’t wear pagers anymore, but anyone can metaphorically page us. This one is eye opening if you consider that you may be unintentionally bound to a 24/7 “on-call” shift in your life to more people than you think you are, and that pager is not silent. The simple tactical exercise in this episode takes maybe 30 seconds to create awareness, but it brings back hours and days of y...

Talk is only cheap if you cheapen it. Yes running your mouth is a bad idea. But how we use words matters just as much as what we do. Ignoring the power of words in the name of “taking action” is setting us up to have words overpower us. Words and Actions are meant to be companions that can feed each other. Often one does not exist without the other. Saying that “words are just wo...

Its good to want to level up and grow and progress and push towards the highest potential in anything. So why does it sometimes feel like something is still blocking us despite great vision and attitude and knowledge and desire? Why when you have done healing of life’s big traumas and conciously let go of the negative things holding you back, does it still feel like you can have high hopes a...

Fear is a tricky emotion. Sometimes helpful. Sometimes its the very thing that causes the pain we were afraid of. How should we interpret it in ourselves. In this episode we have stories from fiction, from real life history, and from everyday life to show that its worth getting to know yourself a lot better than you do, so you can tell the difference, and let it work for you, not against you. Than...

In this episode we dive deep into discovering the evolving and emerging Themes and Patterns in your life to chart your own course. -Why you should be the one discovering who you are. -The pitfalls of putting all your trust in one thing. -Awareness of counterfeit coincidences -How to follow and find the real themes and patterns pointing to your highest fulfillment.

Come on why try to number them all? Get curious with this challenge and list them out and describe them as much as you can in writing in a notepad or journal. Just do 10 and share one with a friend, and watch how it changes your outlook and daily interactions, and you can mark this one as completed. Its a great use of your time. I promise.

A short follow up to the previous episode entitled The Forgotten Secret of: Creating Space.    I realized over the last week, since I shared the 10 areas to create space in your life, that I had not mentioned that one of the major benefits to creating space in your life in the first place is that it allows you to be more open to challenges and critiques and coaching and dare I say the ri...

The simple power and gratitude of saying “I’m still here”. 

We can only kind of control how long we live. We can try to impact how much of our time is spent in a state of good health.  But an even better goal is to maximize the amount of our lifetime spent in a state of true aliveness and fulfillment.   See comparison of the overlapping categories in the notes below, and enjoy the show.    Life Span:   The longest a human can...

This episode of the “forgotten secret of” is all about creating space in areas of your life so you can let the fire of curiosity, perspective, and fulfillment breathe. The summary list of life areas to create space: Space in your Physical Environment Space for Physical Health Mental Space and habits Space on the Calendar Space for Personal Agency and Freedom Spiritual Space Family Spac...

A quick piece of inspiration on how to write the story, instead of having it written for us.

My late Father John Riggle or “Big Rig” had his own words of wisdom for reducing the solution to complex problems down to a simple phrase of clarity as a guiding principle.   He called these “Riggleisms”.  He hoped his children would have their own one day. Here is one from yours truly.   “Stop Eliminating hope, And Start Illuminating Better P...