Struggling? Make It Easy on Yourself
Affecting change in your life is difficult. Anybody who thinks it’s easy is fooling themselves. But that doesn’t mean that you should just shrug your shoulders and say, “Eh… it’s too hard.” Because nothing is too hard, really. The key to creating change and improving any part of your life is to break it down […]
The Stupid, False Messages We Tell Ourselves
You may not realize it, but you’re talking to yourself. A lot. Like, right now. Every time you make a decision, you have a brief, silent conversation with yourself – reviewing the decision and measuring it up against your past experiences, the information you know, and the assumptions you have. Unfortunately, a lot of the […]
4 Books I’ve Read So Far in 2013
One of the intents of this site was also to chronicle my adventures in “learning how to read” again. The beauty of having an open concept for a blog like this is that I can write about pretty much whatever I want – and I have. But I also want to make sure I return […]
The Simplest, Tech-y Way to Kick Yourself in the Butt
I started doing this over the course of this week, and it makes a crazy difference for me. Step 1: Sign up for an account at IFTTT. Step 2: Add your cell number to your account. Step 3: Click “Create Recipe”. Step 4: Click “This”. Step 5: Click “Date & Time”. Step 6: Choose a […]
Admitting a Problem
I can’t focus today. Blargh. It’s a problem for those of us that work from home. Sometimes, you get a couple hours… a day… a whole week, even… where you just can’t get your brain to run on the track that you’ve laid out for it. Why? Couldn’t tell you. But it’s one that many […]
11 Reflections on Trying to Be an Early Riser
I recently grabbed a free subscription on Zinio for a handful of magazines, one of which I signed up for was Esquire. In the January issue of this year, a group of people were interviewed from a variety of walks of life on what they’ve learned in their lives. The range of people included former […]
Searching for Happiness
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. […]