Author: Dan T. Rogers

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, February 24, 2025 – Sunday, March 2, 2025 Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. February 24 – Sometimes the Answer is a Question In a world obsessed with quick fixes and finding answers, the value of asking better questions often gets overlooked. It’s the quality of…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, February 17, 2025 – Sunday, February 23, 2025 Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. February 17 – Rhythm Replaces Repetition Repetition is effort. Rhythm is alignment. Repetition keeps things moving. It reinforces habits, builds muscle memory, and ensures we don’t lose momentum — repetition DEVELOPS purpose.…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, February 10, 2025 – Sunday, February 16, 2025 Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. February 10 – Potential Surrender Courage is surrendering to the potential regardless of consequences — real or imagined. What potential are you willing to surrender to? February 11 – Selective Ownership Intentional…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, February 3, 2025 – Sunday, February 9, 2025 Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. February 3 – No Worries vs. My Pleasure The phrases “No worries” and “My pleasure” may seem interchangeable, but they carry distinct tones and intentions shaping how we connect and communicate. “No…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, January 27, 2025 – Sunday, February 2, 2025 Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. January 27 – The Story of You The ‘story of you’ is a story of a person playing a role we assigned and an interaction we critiqued. The story reflects what we…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, January 20, 2025 – Sunday, January 26, 2025 Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. January 20 – The Story of Why Opinions reflect how we process information and reveal our preferences. They are the ‘story of why’ justifying our feelings and impacting our interactions. They serve…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, January 13, 2025 – Sunday, January 19, 2025 Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. January 13 – Unspoken Understanding Words inform us as to what our current thinking is, and those words are part of our semiotic. Our semiotic is the unspoken understanding of context. Semiotics,…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, January 6, 2025 – Sunday, January 12, 2025 Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. January 6 – The Art of Capturing Capturing turns ideas into reality by aligning thought, feeling, and action. It’s the bridge between imagining and actualizing. What idea are you ready to bring…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, December 30, 2024 – Sunday, January 5, 2025 Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. December 30 – It’s All on Loan Everything we possess, our so called stuff, is temporary. We forget that we can’t take it with us. If we can’t take it with us,…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, December 16 – Sunday, December 22, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. December 23 – Constraint and Restraint Constraints are the non-negotiable forces that are imposed on us, while restraints are the optional restrictions that we place on ourselves. Same effect, different source; the difference…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, December 16 – Sunday, December 22, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. December 16 – An Objective Answers Why Clarifying our objective before getting started can be the difference between success and failure. An objective is a mental intention that defines direction, the emotional alignment…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, December 9 – Sunday, December 15, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. December 9 – Our Silent Guide Intuition is often described as a ‘gut feeling’ but it’s far more complex and valuable than ‘gut’ suggests. Intuition is an instinctive mental response that harnesses our…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, December 2 – Sunday, December 8, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. December 2 – The Initial Threshold Cultural icons have long heralded space as the final frontier. It made for great entertainment, but it might be more useful to think of space as the…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, November 25 – Sunday, December 1, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. November 25 – Developing Courage Courage isn’t the absence of fear but taking action even though fear is present. Courage is understanding what is at risk and doing it anyway. Courageous action is…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, November 18 – Sunday, November 24, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. November 18 – The Impact of Community Contribution Here at Classy Problems, we believe that community is built on The Story of We — the idea that, through shared stories, relationships, and connections,…

Does life feel like an unsolvable puzzle, full of complexities, challenges, and opportunities? That’s because it is — we call that life’s ‘too much toomuchness’ here at The Intentional Course (TiC). We’re excited to announce TiC’s next series on navigating the unsolvable, beginning January 15th at 11a PT / 2p ET, weekly on Wednesdays (01/15, 01/22, 01/29) In this 3-week virtual series, we’ll meet for one-hour sessions to explore how to interact with the too much toomuchness. Here’s what you can expect: We believe life is revealed through our failed interactions with reality. It’s not about finding answers, but asking better questions, making decisions,…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, November 11 – Sunday, November 17, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. November 11 – Paradox of Simplicity Simplicity refines abundance AND discards complexity. November 12 – Context, Context, Context The three most valuable things in real estate are location, location, location. In communication, it’s…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, November 4 – Sunday, November 10, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. November 4 – Securing Certainty Useful quantities of certainty don’t exist. Actual certainty can only be found in the extremes – in the profoundly trivial and absolutely critical. It doesn’t exist in the…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, October 28th – Sunday, November 3rd, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. October 28 – When More Awesome is Better Than Bigger As life becomes more complex, it’s increasingly important for us to be precise with our words. It’s easy to confuse a system with…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, October 21st – Sunday, October 27th, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. October 21 – “Bless Your Heart” Some of us misunderstood that the phrase, “Bless your heart” really means, “Go F yourself.” To avoid another misunderstanding, when we say PRECIOUS, we mean SELFISH —…

Does life feel like an unsolvable puzzle, full of complexities, challenges, and opportunities? That’s because it is — we call that life’s ‘too much toomuchness’ here at The Intentional Course (TiC). We’re excited to announce TiC’s next series on navigating the unsolvable, beginning November 7th at 1p PT / 4p ET, weekly on Thursdays. (11/07, 11/14, 11/21) In this 3-week virtual series, we’ll meet for one-hour sessions to explore how to interact with the too much toomuchness. Here’s what you can expect: We believe life is revealed through our failed interactions with reality. It’s not about finding answers, but asking better questions,…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, October 14th – Sunday, October 20th, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. October 14 – Two Thoughts On The Toilet It’s easy to take the solution of the toilet for granted. It’s easy to take the solution of planning, problem-solving, and creating for granted in…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, October 7th – Sunday, October 13th, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. October 7 – The Proper Use of Hoarding When we keep anything to ourselves, it invariably diminishes its value. Ironically, when we give with no strings attached, more often than not, the joy…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, September 30th – Sunday, October 6th, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. September 30 – Paradox of Observation Observation reveals what is AND obscures what could be. October 1 – The Leverage of Intersections Intersections represent essential moments where singular paths meet multiple routes, and…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, September 23rd – Sunday, September 29th, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. September 23 – Terminal Uniqueness We can be so quick to over-inflate the number and importance of differences while ignoring or failing to recognize commonality or sameness. This results in us minimizing the…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, September 16th – Sunday, September 22nd, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. September 16 – Finished and Complete Complete isn’t finished, but complete is complete. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enuf and that’s all we need to progress. Here’s the thing, all we ever…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, September 9th – Sunday, September 15th, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. September 9th – External and Internal Orientation The success of our predecessors teaches us that external orientation is key in survival moments. It’s about assessing external threats – what we need FROM our…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, September 2nd – Sunday, September 8th, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. September 2 – Paradox of Stability Stability comes at the cost of eventually taking for granted what has been provided. September 3 – Don’t Confuse Facts With an Opinion Why are we arguing…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, August 26th – Sunday, September 1st, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. August 26 – The Greatest Gifts Given and The Only One to Give When facing a survival problem, we have the gift of self-preservation. We can’t overstate the success of survival. When facing…

Welcome to the Classy Problems weekly mash-up for Monday, August 19th – Sunday, August 25th, 2024. Classy Problems is a daily post of thinking in motion by Dan T. Rogers. Each post stands alone as a thought-provoking piece, yet together, they create a puzzle of ideas. They invite you to see things from a different angle, rethink what you thought you knew, and explore what’s beyond your current understanding. August 19 – Function & Purpose Function is about WHAT something does – the specific actions or tasks it performs. Purpose is about WHY it exists or is used – the reason or…