The good thing about Monday mornings is reading an email from Mark Manson. Today, he made mention about how life will always have a tension between being perfect as you are right now, and the the call to personal improvement. What a nice reminder to wake up to. As I thought about this concept, I found it entered my Morning… Read more →
When I first wrote this, I had just listened to a podcast between Tim Ferris and Derek Sivers. I’ve since listened Derek’s podcast with James Altucher. Derek can be found at sivers.org and you’ll want to find him because he’s very positive and he’s accomplished a lot without having to be an asshole or stress himself out too much. In… Read more →
Have you ever wasted an hour following links, reading articles, learning about something, only to walk away feeling…empty? The more that I work for myself, the more I realize I have a tendency to use distraction as an escape. I realize there are a lot of articles out there about this, but writing about it helps me improve my understanding… Read more →
Running is a dick. This is because running refuses to ever get easier. And it’s never like you think it is while you’re watching someone run in a movie. You know that montage where Rocky Balboa is training to fight the juiced-up, tech-trained Russian, Ivan Drago? And Rocky goes from moderately buff, to super-psycho ripped? And he does all these… Read more →
I know you. You have a pretty good job, but it doesn’t pay enough, and it takes more of your time than it should. You have some debt—more than than you’re comfortable with—and even though it limits what you can do with your money, it’s manageable. You have a place to live, but it isn’t the house you plan on… Read more →
The world moves at a confusingly rapid pace. People all around you doing better than you financially. Maybe they have family connections that gave them an easier start. Maybe they focused more in school, or in work. Maybe they hate their lives or they’re in debt, or they are in a miserable marriage, or their kids are totally messed up,… Read more →
Like most people that have never accomplished anything of note, I like to consider myself an experiential person. Which means that I live more for experience than for stuff. Stuff like a nice car; a big house; fancy vacations; or being out of debt. You know, the stuff most adults get once they decide to be grown ups. The kind… Read more →
i’m reading Seneca. ok, I’m reading excerpts of Seneca. but I plan on reading more. i have a confession: i’m a squanderer. a squanderer of precious, precious time and attention. on the whole, depending on the comparisons i choose to look at, i think i’ve done pretty well with my life. truth is, i’ve felt restless for most of my… Read more →
I suffer from self-delusions of someday becoming a famous author. Of making millions off of the words that I write. These types of fantasies have happened since I was 7. Except, when I was 7, I had my whole life ahead of me and I knew that for sure I would achieve my dreams (my dreams back then consisted of… Read more →
i have a problem. i have written so. many. amazing. blog posts. well, the first few lines of so. many. [potentially] amazing. blog posts. and once i’ve had the satisfaction of getting the idea’s nugget on paper, i stop. i think it’s because a promising idea has potential for greatness if it will remain an idea with a start. but… Read more →