by John Kralik | Aug 8, 2025 | Grateful Thoughts
My previous blogs have focused on a proven system of daily, task-driven organization that my father attempted to teach me in the 1960’s and ‘70’s. My retirement last month was a chance to regret how much more I could have accomplished over the course of my life had I...
by John Kralik | Jul 22, 2025 | Grateful Thoughts
My last blog concerned the $400,000 secret my father left in the family garage when he died. I wrote of how he disciplined himself to write out the six most important things he had to do every day, in order of their importance. If any item remained undone at the end...
by John Kralik | Aug 8, 2023 | Grateful Thoughts, John Kralik M.D.
With aging, each passing day brings greater urgency to get things done in the inexorably evaporating time of my life. Not just all the things I must do for my job but also the things I must do to nourish family relationships, and just to keep my head above the...
by John Kralik | Feb 13, 2023 | Grateful Thoughts
In the spring of 1970, David Crosby’s voice persuaded me to stop cutting my hair. Before 1965, my hair had been short, but I was satisfied with it. The barber shop was a friendly place, and a young man could expect to read an entire good comic book and chew a few...
by John Kralik | Jan 17, 2023 | Grateful Thoughts
In my last blog, I explained how I had come across F3, a workout group that seeks to foster the three “F’s” of fitness, fellowship, and faith. There are 3,500 such groups in the United States. There are none in Los Angeles. I thought briefly of filling the L.A. void...
by John Kralik | Dec 23, 2022 | Grateful Thoughts
On September 25, 2022, I read an article in the New York Times entitled “For Suburban Texas Men, a Workout Craze with a Side of Faith” by Ruth Graham. Two things about the article struck me. First, the fiery epicenter of “F3,” the faith-influenced workout...
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