General
Dark Knight of the Soul
(1) That’s right, nobody is coming to rescue you. I have to remind myself of that from time to time. It means, if you want to change your situation, if you want to make life work for you, then you have to turn inward and draw from your internal resources. In the end, the onus …
The happiness pill
I’ve been exploring this week the various angles we use to wiggle our way into happiness and try to create a system that makes happiness a constant instead of the variable that it is.
Finding the sweet spot
The general advice is to find your passion and do that for a living. But you need to add a little bit more to the equation. Find the intersection of these three things: Things you are good at Things you love to do Things people will pay you to do Then you’re on to a …
They don’t want you to take the test
Nir Eyal posted this on Medium: How to achieve your goals by creating an enemy. I was going to flick on by it, but I didn’t. I wanted to see what he had to say about enemies. I know a thing or two about enemies, and in my experience, it’s never a good thing to …
Emotions
This week, I’ve been working on a piece of self-paced e-learning for parents of children with special needs with my good friend Aimee Mann of Aimee Mann Mentoring. The e-course is called Getting Your Voice Heard. It’s a workshop she runs in physical space and is now converting it into an online format in order …
Dopamine tastes good
“I wish the real world would stop hassling me.” – Matchbox Twenty Ok, here’s goes the start of my 30-day blogging challenge. Why? For no reason other than wanting to start daily blogging again. I miss it as a platform for keeping up with myself. Like the old days. Plus I was inspired by Seth godin’s post yesterday. …
as the wheel turns
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve destroyed this site in order to rebuild it. Reminds of the Good Place season 2, when has to keep resetting his personal block of Hell trying to get the main characters to stop discovering that they are, in fact, in Hell, not Heaven. That being said, here …