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Reading Time: < 1 min Writing daily can be tough. I’m about three years into daily blogging, and I still struggle quite a bit. The difference now is that I don’t wait to be inspired. Prior to 2020, I’d post “when I felt inspired”. This led to 14 posts in 2019, 9 in 2018, and similar numbers going back to […]

Reading Time: < 1 min Urgency and hurry can sound like doing the same thing, but deep down they’re quite different. A good example of this came from a post I shared earlier this year when I explained how calm can be faster. If your child falls and hurts themselves, you need to urgently get to the situation but if […]

Reading Time: 2 min If you’re an Olympic-level diver, the “degree of difficulty” on your dives is very important. For the rest of us, not so much. When it comes to something like building a website, you can choose to use a tool like WordPress (like we do) to help with the basics, or you can choose to write […]

Reading Time: 2 min Back in the day when calling a company you’d often hear a messaging saying that “your call may be monitored”, which I suspect was true. We hear the same thing on those calls today, but it’s a lie — your call absolutely is being recorded and studied (and with AI, even moreso). As Seth Godin […]

Reading Time: 2 min I’m a big believer in focusing on processes over results. We all certainly want to have positive results from our efforts, but the focus should be on the process behind the effort and not on the final outcome. Last week I was playing a round of golf, and on the last hole I was at […]

Reading Time: < 1 min Many people pine for the “good old days”, but those days seem to be in a different decade depending on who is saying it. Kevin Kelly explains why in his book “Excellent Advice for Living“. He says: When someone tells you about the peak year of human history the period of time when things were […]

Reading Time: < 1 min It can be interesting to think of ourselves as two people, and we often do it without realizing it. I’ve shared before how I often use that to my advantage by having the “other” Mickey deal with certain things. It’s a slippery slope, as if you put too much on your “other” self then you’re […]

Reading Time: < 1 min A few of the posts I’ve shared in the last week came to me at nearly the same time, even though they weren’t related. The time? When I was just messing around one evening playing “Best Fiends” on my tablet. I let my mind wander, and it found a few connections that I didn’t realize […]

Reading Time: 2 min When you try to categorize the “best” of anything, whether it’s a car, book, or actor, there is going to be disagreement. For example, right now I think the Pixel Fold is the best phone you can own. Most of you reading this probably disagree with me and say that the iPhone or one of […]

Reading Time: 2 min Years ago, I had a Motorola phone that came with a windshield mount that you could use for navigation. This was in the very early days of Google Maps having that support, and the mount held the phone in a landscape position, presumably to resemble GPS units of the time. When I got my next […]