Pedaling at work
Those who know me well, know I’m a big fan of “lifehacking,” which I guess can best be described as utilizing tips, tricks, technology, ideas in different ways to live more effective and efficiently. Sometimes this means using software like TDP to improve your relationship with your wife or in this case it means using an […]
How Evernote is making me a better gift giver
We’re coming down to the final crunch of Holiday shopping and if you are like me, and you prefer, if possible, to do all of your shopping online then you are just about out of time (unless you also are Prime subscriber and can find that special gift on Amazon). I’m usually a bit stressed […]
What are you avoiding?
As part of my “chains” work, and on the advice of Jerry, I’ve added a new, 2 minute exercise to my daily routine. I ask myself: “What are you avoiding” I take some time to write a response in evernote, and then I ask: “Why are you avoiding it?” I’m only a few days in […]
Don’t break the chain
Scrolling through my instapaper feed this past weekend I came across this post way back on April 25th titled “366 or How I tricked myself into being awesome.” It’s an awesome post and well worth a read, but I’ll give you the meat here: How did I do it? Blogged every, single day. For one full year. […]
What’s your invisible script?
This morning while walking my dog I had a random thought: “hey, I should run with Izzy (my dog) regularly.” And almost immediately I heard another voice in my head say “you can’t do that.” I realized that this voice is actually pretty common, and loves to immediately shoot down ideas, plans, hopes that I’m perhaps […]
Time for quiet
I don’t know how or why, but for some reason this morning I had the tv on and tuned to CBS this morning. I caught a piece they did called “Absolute Silence: How long can you last?” In this piece talk about very quiet places, including a spot in Washington state that supposedly is absolutely […]
You never know…
I had breakfast this morning with a a friend, Kareem, who is someone that always teaches, pushes, and inspires my work both as a person and as an entrepreneur. I don’t see or speak to Kareem all that often mostly because he does not live in NYC, but I always come away from our interactions […]
“Draw with me”
“Here, you can color here, Uncle Dan.” She flipped open her sketch book, which looked exactly like a book you would expect a four and a half year old to own. It was ripped in places, bent, crinkled, and completely covered with random splashes of color. “Here, use this black pen to make the outline. […]