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 […]
Hot, Flat, Crowded -thoughts
I recently finished Thomas Friedman‘s latest book: Hot, Flat, Crowded and I loved it. He does a great job describing the major problems facing our increasingly hot, flat, and crowded world, which include booming population growth, more energy demand, a changing climate, and rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss. (Rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss is a topic covered […]
It’s never the right time…
Image via Wikipedia A friend of mine called me the other day to discuss his plans to leave his job and start a business in a year. I could feel his excitement, and supported his decision. But the truth is I didn’t really believe in his plan, and I don’t really think he did either. […]
Brazen Careerist: “Bad career advice: Do what you love”
I don’t know how I stumbled on to this post, but it was really thought provoking for me. At first I wanted to get defensive, think about why she was wrong and point out that she had contradicted this post many times in the past both in one of her books and in other blog […]
“How to Do what you Love”
Continuing with my blog theme for the last weeks (or years) I wanted to post some quotes after reading Paul Graham’s long (but very good) essay on the subject of doing what you love. I found this quote particularly interesting based on what I wrote about last week in terms of not knowing what doing […]
“Tap dance to Work”
Ok I’ll admit the Warren Buffett posts are probably getting a little old, unfortunately fascination of the moment. There are many reasons to admire and respect a man like Warren Buffett (the man is the self made richest person on the planet and he did give away more than 85% of his net worth to […]
What is driving you?
(from Scuddr on flickr via CC) Have you ever been water skiing? I had my first opportunity about 3 years ago on Julie’s parent’s boat at the beautiful Lake Cumberland, and had a blast (with some pain of course). I didn’t do too bad as I was able to get up pretty quickly and had […]
Today’s a game
(via mecredis on flickr under cc) As I was sitting eating lunch and thinking about my last post I had somewhat of a revelation. I really don’t like work. Looking back on my first business, Enviar, I didn’t start that as a business. I really started that with the approach of “this puzzle looks fun.” […]
The Rules
(image via flickr user stevegarfield) What’s your “bedtime?” No you didn’t grow out of it, I bet you still have a time you think you “should” get to bed by. We all have these sets of rules we follow day in and day out. Rules are good because they add structure in guidance to your […]
Too much self-esteem?
“The Trump Blog,” (would you expect him to name it anything else?) has a post in which he asks whether too much self-esteem can be a bad thing: Recently, a new study found that today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than ever before. The psychologists who conducted the research blamed the trend, in […]