Reading Time: 2 min Every January first (for the past few years – 2020, 2021) I like to look at some numbers and stats from the previous year. Content This year my writing dropped a tiny bit down to 358 posts thanks to COVID, for a total of 1347 live posts on the site. I’m hoping to get it […]
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Merry Christmas
Reading Time: < 1 min If you celebrate Christmas, I wish you a wonderful day full of presents and friends. If you don’t celebrate Christmas, I wish you an excellent day of quiet and rest. Our body and mind tend to recharge when unplugged (the opposite of our devices), so may all of your batteries be full today.
Some work, some don’t
Reading Time: < 1 min With over 1,300 posts on this blog, I can promise you that some aren’t any good. There are some that I’m proud of, some that are ok, and some that just aren’t worth much. It happens, and it’s a big reason why I keep plugging away. While it’d be ideal for every post to be […]
Rank tranquility over negative emotions
Reading Time: < 1 min I recently Blinked the book “A Guide to the Good Life“, and the “actionable advice” from Blinkist was fantastic. It simply said: “Rank tranquility over negative emotions“. The book covered this in-depth, but the basic idea revolves around stoicism and your ability to keep calm when anger and anxiety won’t help to improve the situation […]
Be unweary
Reading Time: < 1 min This Thanksgiving, I hope you take some time to become unweary of the wonders in your life. Whether that is friends, family, food, or football, they’re all amazing things that we’re blessed to have. Take time today to also be thankful for the other wonders you have. Just reading this post means you have a […]
A great use of 30 seconds
Reading Time: < 1 min I heard about this concept years ago, and did it for a little while, but it somehow slipped out of my process. While I’m still good about rough interstitial journaling throughout the day, adding this technique back in would be hugely valuable for me. As shared on LinkedIn by Greg KcKeown years ago (and brought […]
Optimism is good; faith is better
Reading Time: < 1 min I love hanging around optimistic people. Seeing the glass as half-full and a world of possibility is a great way to live. Beyond optimism, though, faith can be even better. In his book “Take Care of Your People“, author Paul Sarvadi compares them like this: Optimism hopes for the best, where faith takes action in […]
Options shrink as your expertise grows
Reading Time: 2 min If I’m driving along in my car and I hear a “thunk” as it sputters to a stop by the side of the road, I’ll likely have very little idea what happened. Other than knowing that it had a fresh oil change and a half-tank of gas, the possibilities for what happened are endless — […]
Two years of daily blogging
Reading Time: < 1 min Today marks two years of blogging every single day (minus a week when I had COVID). The past year has been super interesting, but my reasoning, cadence, and publishing have all been roughly the same. As explained in a recent episode of “The Long and The Short Of It” podcast about “Practice versus Project“, this […]
What kind of conflict is it?
Reading Time: < 1 min When you disagree with someone, there are two ways it generally can go: you can make it a relationship conflict or a task conflict. I encourage you to always work toward the latter. A relationship conflict is when you are fighting with each other. You make it personal, and it often drifts away from the […]