I’ve not been writing. Not creatively at least, and certainly not regularly in a long time. Mostly because I’ve been struggling with some emotional issues that have gotten in the way of focus, creativity, and discipline. While I still have those struggles, I think it’s time to give myself a small enough challenge that I …
The shape of my summer days shall be: morning get up by 7 am (shift over time to 6:30 am) do NOT check email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. as the very first thing I do some kind of movement – at the very least stretching and a few yoga poses, but more often alternate between my …
One of my mantras that I offer to myself and my friends and colleagues at school is “a bear is not going to eat you.” Taken from Merlin Mann, it’s the notion that we respond with fight/flight reactions to many things in our lives that are not, in fact, actual threats that match such a …
I recently saw a blog post about making sure that the first thing you do in the morning is produce rather than consume. Now, my typical morning starts with me reaching for my phone and checking mail, or my rss feeds, or Facebook or Twitter . . . or, actually, all of those before even …
I’ve been putting off writing this essay all day because I am rather frightened of putting these thoughts into words and putting those words out to the world. But I have done nearly all my other work for the day and I need to maintain my current goal of writing 500 words every day. So, …
“Why do we end up trying to solve boring problems? ‘Cause we hate impossible problems and we hate scary problems. But on the other hand if we’re scared enough of a scary problem we’ll sit around working on an impossible problem, maybe because it’s a familiar problem.” I don’t know if this is food for …
This is an important reminder about being human and being wrong. I so have a crush on Kathryn Schulz. Watch this:
A few new rules in place for this semester: On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I get up as close to 6am as I can and continue with my 100 pushups program (this is week 2 of the 6 week program. I follow the pushups with increasing time on my step machine and my rowing machine. …
Things I heard during the three days I did not listen to music over my earphones when I left the house: birds singing children playing lots of cars louder buses while riding in them human voices It was an interesting several days: neither all that painful nor particularly revelatory. While I am not forsaking my …
Wherein I discuss some of my strategies for developing new habits of behavior.