Just Start
When there is a sizeable lingering goal in your life, starting can feel daunting. Imagining you reaching your goal can feel impossible. The main task is to do anything that …
Radical Acceptance
The art of radical acceptance is accepting oneself fully. Not just the parts we like, but also including the shadow side. We think similar to how the Buddhists were in …
Planning is Guessing
Let’s be honest. When people have estimates and plans, it is guessing. We are terrible estimators. How many times do we say a task will take 2 hours and it …
Can’t think of anything
Today is a day, that I can’t think of anything to write. I am going to drop down my favorite quote: It Aint what you don’t know that gets you …
Ninja Writing Udemy Course
The Ninja writing course at Udemy helped me think about writing differently. The course had four different levels, narrative, paragraphs, sentences, and words. Each section gave some techniques to incorporate …
Process Versus Events
Process trumps all. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. All huge events have a process that came before them. People focus on Micheal Phelps winning the gold …
You Don’t Want to be the next Bill Gates you Want to be the Next You
“Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you; I am I.” Osha A typical “influencer” slogan would be “I …
Thinking in Bets Lessons
Life isn’t like chess; it’s like poker. Annie Duke goes over in her book Thinking In Bets how random chance affects our life everywhere. We don’t get linear results based …
Avoiding Bad Self Help & Coaching
There is a lot of abuse in self-help today. I listened to Jordan harbinger episode160, and they gave a checklist to help verify if you are poor self-help coaching. A …
“It Ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain.
The most ironic thing about the quote above is that it typically is attributed to Mark Twain, but most likely, he didn’t even say it. When we have stories or …