NOW

07/28/2021

Once again, the consistency of getting these posts out has decreased – this post was started on 6/02…… Hopefully, this post brings some value for you, and hopefully these posts will become more frequent. I’ve still been disciplined about writing, however most of the writing has transitioned to documents for other outlets. More to come. Also, it may be like beating a dead horse, but I’ll try to get a 2020 Reflections post out as well.

Since the last NOW post, many things have changed around here. I’ll do my best to articulate what’s going on and some of what’s coming up. As always, thanks for reading, and please reach out if you think we could have a mutually beneficial discussion.

Tribe

Our family is growing, so I’m constantly doing my best to adapt to that, be present with those I’m around (in whatever is going on), and do GOOD. We’ve rearranged the whole house with massive organization, and reducing ‘stuff’. We’ve decided to stay in Covington for the next several years and get the kids plugged into a new Montessori school. Then, likely try to get them across the river to a CPS school.

Safety

We’ve upped the game on our safety at home by increasing preparedness (plans, fire, exits (equipment), etc), security (gun safes, fire ladders, inspections, smart locks, etc), and exploring and practicing mental and physical resiliancy.

Health

We’ve implemented better habits and tools for recovery/sleep, habits, hygiene, and learning. Things like sound proofing and blackouts in the bedrooms, cleaning/nature/learning schedules, heat reducing bedding, and the like.

Innovation Engineering with Eureka Ranch and the State of Kentucky

I worked with a company called Eureka Ranch to get their Blue Belt Certification program in Innovation Engineering on the approved vendors list for the Kentucky Career Center. I’m still working through the certification and am aiming to finish it this month. Absolute amazing information and work!

KleinHaus, LLC

Dustin Sciara and I partnered together to start a holding (umbrella) company with the mission to relay joy, love, and enrichment. We’re currently making money by performing marketing and consulting services.

KleinHaus Technologies, LLC

Brian Bailey and I have been doing research on decision making and prioritizing. In conjunction to that, we’ve been building a company, digital tool, and research paper. If you have a moment, please fill out our questionnaire to build the data set.

Lean Physique

KleinHaus and my brother Jon Kleinhenz as well as Sunil Ketty have partnered to build out a brand…

    Money

    I took all my retirement and paid off all outstanding debt except for a consolidated loan that hosts my car and school – planning to pay that off by the end of the year. This was a scary decision to make and very difficult to pull off, but with the government-easing of cashing out retirement accounts because of unnemployment and Covid, it made the most sense to act on. “A penny saved, is a dollar earned.” I finally got off of unnemplyment and have been working hard on these new ventures.

    Ventlife

    We’ve put VentLife on hold as we weren’t able to secure funding to move the project into final prototyping and testing. It was a great experience with an amazing team, and we’re proud of what we tried and learned. Maybe the patent will be sold in the future, or someone will pick it up to aid with underdeveloped areas of the world.

    I’m still an affiliate for Elemental CBD and still love their products. If you’d like to learn more, please visit them or ask me. You can get 10% off with the link above, or by using code: jk10

    Gym/Studio and Family/Nature Sundays

    I got the gym and podcast studio rebuilt and set up again at the house, so I’ve been utilizing those once again to spread some “life, let’s go”. On the first Sunday of each month I schedule Nature Sundays with the Gypsy’s Crew where we try to get into some form of nature (usually with water). On the other Sundays, we host my family in an old tradition of an open door policy hangout with food and drink or get more outside time.

    Physical Therapy

    I’ve been visiting Anchor Wellness for physical therapy to help me through some pain/mobility issues that have crept up from old injuries and my body compensating for them. They’ve been an amazing guiding hand in getting well.

    Doggonit! Finishing the Peru story. It’s already huge (10k words or so), so it might end up being my first book 🙂 .

    Habit tracking

    I’ve been using the tool Habitica which doubles as an RPG game that you can join a group and go on missions together. It’s a fun way to stay disciplined and accountable.

    Same old discipline of healthy habits:

    More focus on my teeth and skin

    Athletic greens and vitamins

    Drumming (switched the set to left handed and have been feeling the creativity)

    Working out

    Shaving, cold shower, breath work

    Journaling, studying stoicism, and studying my mission

    Stretching

    Meditating

    Writing 250+ words

    Org. work for KleinHaus, Clients/Partners, and Tech

    Cleaning 5+ minutes

    Weekly disciplined habits

    Writing down my fears and how to combat them

    Writing down my goals and then scheduling them on the calendar

    Watering all the plants

    24 hour fast

    Hey, thanks for spending time with me! As always, if you think we could have a mutually beneficial conversation, please reach out at any time. Also, I’ve left out certain information included in past NOW posts (like most influencial positive products and books) for 2 reason – 1) to see if anyone reads this far, and 2) beacuse time is precious. If you’d like to get those lists, please let me know – I’m very responsive.

    Stay well. Stay powerful.

    Best,

    Jason

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    20. The defending champions are on the ropes, and the best team in the NHL has another chance to move on to the second round of the playoffs. All four resuming Friday night feature a Game 6 with potential elimination. The most surprising team on the brink is Colorado, with the series going back to Seattle. There are a pair of second chances in the East, with top-seeded Boston trying to put away Florida and Carolina looking to advance past the New York Islanders.
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      Out West, of knocking off Minnesota and moving on. All eyes now are on the Avalanche, who are one loss away from being the first reigning Stanley Cup champion to lose to a team making its first playoff appearance in franchise history. “With the culture we have here, belief is the biggest thing and that?s instilled from the top down, so that?s never going to go away,” veteran forward Andrew Cogliano said Thursday.

      “But I think we?re at a point now where action is much louder than words.” It’s time for action from the Bruins, too, after they missed their first chance to move past the Panthers, with punctuated by uncharacteristic mistakes.
      As captain Patrice Bergeron said afterward, he and his teammates can’t give an opportunistic opponent “freebies” as they did in Game 5 at home. Seattle Kraken defenseman Carson Soucy, left, celebrates with center Yanni Gourde, who scored against the Colorado Avalanche during the third period of Game 5 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Denver.

      (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Game 6 is on the road at Florida, and the Bruins still have the series lead looking to be the 10th Presidents’ Trophy winners in the past 11 years to win at least one series. “I?m sure we?re going to come back with a real good, determined effort,” Boston coach Jim Montgomery said.

      “I have a lot of confidence in our team.” Confidence isn’t lacking for the Avalanche, either, especially after their Cup run a year ago. They’ll also get a boost with the return of 2022 playoff MVP Cale Makar from a one-game suspension. But much like Boston, the pressure is on Colorado. “They?re playing loose, they?re confident,” coach Jared Bednar said of the Kraken. “Obviously the guys in their room are like, `Yeah, we want to win,? but expectations are on our team.” HURRICANES at ISLANDERS, Carolina leads 3-2 (7 p.m.

      EDT, TBS) The Hurricanes lost despite outshooting the Islanders 36-22 and dictating for long stretches. Two Islanders goals came off Carolina turnovers, and the for another. Otherwise, it might’ve been the team’s best 5-on-5 game of the series. “You feel like you played good enough to win, but the bounces didn?t quite go our way,” Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis said.

      “But for us, even watching video you could tell, we played the way we want to play.” after being knocked out of Game 4 on a hard hit into the boards, according to coach Rod Brind’Amour, who didn’t rule out the possibility of going with Frederik Andersen in net after Antti Raanta started the first five games. There are no questions about Ilya Sorokin being back in net for the Islanders after he made 34 saves to help New York win its first elimination game.

      Now comes another, this one with home-ice advantage and the chance to push the series to a Game 7 in Raleigh. BRUINS at PANTHERS, Boston leads 3-2 (7:30 p.m., TNT) The word that Florida coach Paul Maurice keeps using is freedom. Yes, there?s an obvious pressure when facing elimination – which the Panthers were in Game 5 in Boston before winning 4-3 – but there’s also much less from the outside going against the team that had the best regular season in NHL history. “These are hard games for these guys to play,” Maurice said.

      “You just have to mentally process one, and fight, and that brings that freedom. That?s the exact word I used before that game. You want to play with a freedom.” Sergei Bobrovsky looked like his best self, and a stop on a breakaway in the final second of regulation got Florida to overtime – on a night the Bruins outshot the NHL?s most-prolific shooting team in the regular season 47-25. “The veteran players and also your highest-paid players, these are the games where the pressure has to be on their shoulders, and they have to rise to the occasion,” Maurice said.

      “And he did. Everything that we could have hoped for from Sergei, he delivered.” The Panthers have not won two elimination games in the same series, or the same playoffs, since 1996. They may or may not have Ryan Lomberg for their latest attempt, with Maurice calling the forward a game-time decision. STARS at WILD, Dallas leads 3-2 (9:30 p.m., TBS) Joe Pavelski could return for the Stars in their first chance to advance after missing the past four games in concussion protocol from a hit from Minnesota’s Matt Dumba in the series opener. Coach Peter DeBoer said Pavelski, at 38 the second-oldest player in the playoffs and a key leader for Dallas, was traveling to the Twin Cities after just about a full practice. The Stars have survived so far without Pavelski, thanks to the production of center with 11 points, and goaltender Jake Oettinger, who stopped all 27 shots he faced Tuesday in Game 5 for the first shutout of this postseason. Another win would vault the Stars into the second round and a matchup against either Colorado or Seattle. “We have a great opportunity ahead of us,” said Oettinger, who has a .925 save percentage so far.

      “This is exactly where we want to be.” AVALANCHE AT KRAKEN, Seattle leads 3-2 (10 p.m., TNT) The Kraken are trying to treat the moment just as if it’s any other situation. But players and coach Dave Hakstol know the gravity of the situation. “We know what?s on the line, believe me,” Hakstol said.
      “We want to go home and play well and get the job done at home.” The Kraken have put Nathan MacKinnon and the high-flying Avalanche on their heels by scoring first in all five games. The Avalanche would like to reverse that trend and send the series back to Denver for a Game 7 Sunday. “We?ve got to have some desperation … and just find a way,” forward Mikko Rantanen said. ___ AP Sports Writers Pat Graham, Tim Reynolds, Aaron Beard, Jimmy Golen, Stephen Hawkins and Dave Campbell contributed. ___ AP NHL playoffs:       Colorado Avalanche goaltender Alexandar Georgiev reacts after giving up a goal to Seattle Kraken center Morgan Geekie during the second period of Game 5 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery watches from the bench during the third period of Game 5 in the first round of the NHL hockey playoffs, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Florida Panthers left wing Matthew Tkachuk (19) leaps on goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) while celebrating after scoring the game-winning goal against the Boston Bruins during overtime of Game 5 in the first round of the NHL hockey playoffs, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Carolina Hurricanes’ Stefan Noesen skates on the ice following the Hurricanes’ loss to the New York Islanders in Game 5 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, April 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker) Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Antti Raanta (32) jumps up to block a shot of the New York Islanders with Jean-Gabriel Pageau (44) close by during the third period of Game 5 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, April 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker) Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger, center, and teammates Radek Faksa (12) and Luke Glendening (11) celebrate the team’s 4-0 win against the Minnesota Wild in Game 5 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger reaches up to glove a shot from the Minnesota Wild during the third period of Game 5 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) Minnesota Wild left wing Marcus Johansson, bottom, and Dallas Stars’ Max Domi (18) fall to the ice after colliding as they chased the puck during the third period of Game 5 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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    44. The Seattle Kraken know the situation they’re in. They trail the Dallas Stars three games to two in their best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series, with Game 6 Saturday in Seattle. “It’s do-or-die next game,” Kraken forward Jordan Eberle said.
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      “This is when it gets exciting. These are the games we want to play in.” The Kraken trailed 2-1 in their opening-round series against the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche before rallying to win in seven games. So they’ve come back in a series before already this spring. “I’m confident we can come back in this series. It’s far from over,” said Kraken defenseman Adam Larsson, who had a goal in Thursday’s 5-2 loss at Dallas.

      “One thing with this team, we have never quit. We probably never will.” But they’ll have to stop the Stars’ top line of Roope Hintz, Joe Pavelski and Jason Robertson, which combined for eight points Thursday. Hintz led the way with two goals and an assist, moving him into a tie with Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl for the NHL’s scoring lead this postseason with 18 points (eight goals, 10 assists). “He’s been just an absolute monster for us this playoff, at the most important times,” Stars coach Peter DeBoer said.

      “I mean, (Thursday was) obviously a critical game for our group, and he comes out in the first 10 minutes and basically lets everyone in the building know that he’s here to play and dragging our group around, and he’s done that the entire playoff. “It’s almost been a little bit of a coming-out party for him.
      I think he’s been a playoff player before, and a good playoff player, but he hasn’t been a dominant playoff player. That’s what he looks like in this year’s playoffs.” Not to be outdone, Pavelski has seven goals in the series and Robertson has three goals and three assists, with all three helpers coming Thursday. Pavelski scored 35 seconds into the second period of Game 5, giving the Stars a 3-0 lead before the Kraken clawed back later in the period to make it 3-2. Hintz scored at 11:20 of the third to give Dallas some breathing room. “I mean, you want to play aggressive, you want to play on your toes, you want to skate.

      That’s the way we want to play,” Eberle said. “We want to be a quick team, but we have to be smart about it, too. We can’t be diving in everywhere and giving them odd-man rushes and opportunities to score. It’s just having the smarts and the veteran presence to know when to do that and when not to do it. “I think even if you’re 98 percent sure and two percent off, the two percent are the ones that end up in the back of your net. We have to find a way to just continue to play that way but limit the chances they get.” The Stars clinched their opening-round victory at Minnesota.

      They hope to advance again on the road Saturday and avoid a Game 7. “Now it’s on us to go there and end this on the road, which we did in the (first-round) Minnesota series,” DeBoer said. “Hopefully we have the same result.” –Field Level Media

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    45. The Seattle Kraken signed general manager Ron Francis to a three-year contract extension Wednesday, two weeks removed from a stirring run to the second round of the playoffs in just their second season. Francis, 60, now is signed through the 2026-27 season. Financial terms were not released by the club. “Ron has done remarkable work over the last four years and deserves this recognition,” Seattle co-owner Samantha Holloway said.
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      “He has built a tremendous team, putting Seattle hockey on the map. He is building for long-term success and is dedicated to our city, our fans and our community.” The Kraken lost in Game 7 to the Dallas Stars on May 15 after completing a 46-28-8 mark in the regular season. The Kraken knocked off defending champion Colorado in the first round. The Kraken went 27-49-6 in their expansion season. –Field Level Media

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