Quick Tip – Save Money at the Checkout Page
I just grabbed a sweet new plugin for Chrome called “Coupons at Checkout”. Basically, it saves you the time of hunting for applicable promo codes on an online order, so you can just plug them in and grab the savings. As someone who shops online quite often, this sort of thing is a godsend. Click […]
My Goals for 2013: Writing, Running, and Reading
Sure, resolutions are easy to miss. In fact, nothing makes you feel inadequate like revisiting your resolutions from last year. But I’m not going to make resolutions – I’m going to make goals. Is that semantics? Yep. But a goal is something I strive for year-round. A resolution is something I say I’m going to […]
The Top Everything of 2012
It’s review time for me today, which I think is one of those exercises that everybody would benefit from. I’ll be going over how I did on my annual goals and setting myself up for 2013, but first I want to look at some of the good things that went on this year. What better […]
Coming Up Short: How to Triage Your Failures and Not Do Them Again
In the past few weeks leading up to Christmas, I’ve found myself noticing little failures in my life. I’m not talking big ones, like “WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE?!?”-type failures, but little things. These are times where I’ve come up short, and often, they can be more frustrating than big problems. Copy projects […]
12 Things I Will Stop Being Angry With in 2013
As the year winds down, I’m starting to get reflective. I think that’s a healthy thing – from time to time, we need to take stock in our lives and make some changes. We’re not perfect human beings, so we can always strive to be better. One thing I’ve noticed over the years is how […]
Stephen King on Talent
“If God gives you something you can do, why in God’s name wouldn’t you do it?” – Stephen King
18 Things I’m Grateful For This Week
I mentioned yesterday that it’s been something of a rough week. Some business and financial frustrations have really taken their toll on this household. Fortunately, things are on the upswing again and we’re heading out of town for the weekend with friends, which we’re really excited about. But while I was in the midst of […]
The Childlike Joy of a Blank Page
I imagine that it was a chore for my mother to walk through a store with me. I was one of those beggar kids – the ones that saw something and immediately wanted to have it! I always thought of the possibility of crazy fun times with whatever was new, or with things I never […]
When Did We All Stop Reading?
One of the big reasons why I went this direction with my writing is to become a better reader, so this week, I’m going to focus exclusively on reading. Today, I’ll discuss why I stopped reading (and why you probably did too). Reading and reading comprehension came naturally to me, as far back as I […]
Two Rants in One: World Peace is a Pipe Dream
“How do you find peace?” That’s a loaded question – everybody has a different definition of what “peace” really is, and how to attain it has even more answers. But I cringe and roll my eyes at the various demonstrations and protests of people who are demanding “world peace”. They seem to think that the […]