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Disappointed customer
Ok, I just have to tell you about something that happened to me this week.I like coffee, quite a lot. In fact, I’m a big coffee nerd: I roast my own coffee with a home-brew contraption, I grind fresh and measure and weigh things, I’m not the most nerdy coffee brewer I know, but I’m…
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I did a guest post: building community on vomitingchicken.com.
Hey, a guest post written by me went live today on Vomiting Chicken! It’s a fantastic blog written by a fantastic lady: my mom. It’s about people, farm living, and everything good. Check it out. (…and leave her a Happy Birthday comment 🙂
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My relationship with self-help, or how a magician ruined my childhood.
I remember something that happened back when I was young. Young enough that the memory is hazy, and I’m not entirely sure what age I was. My family went to a magic show in a large, dark auditorium, and the magician must have been pretty uninteresting to an ambiguously aged boy like me, because I don’t remember…
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Failure report: Keeping me honest.
Every once in a while, I publish a failure report, outlining ways that I’ve failed (and what I’ve learned from them) since the last month, in my past, etc. These may be failures that I brought upon myself, or circumstantial, but the message is the same: we all experience failure and setbacks. What we do…
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Four things I do to keep me in line [video]
Every week, my brother and I record vlogs to each other, under the name Doubtful Solutions Brothers. Our vimeo profile is here, our website is here. The videos don’t always pertain to this blog, but when they do, I’ll post them with added commentary. In this video, I outline four things I do to make…
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About
I’m not one of those slick, greasy successes showing other successes how to be more successful. When I read the blogs and books of people like that, it’s easy to come up with an excuse not to do amazing stuff, because my circumstances are different. They’re perfect. Their life is perfect, or pretty close. How…
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How to create your own personal college class
It’s common for many people to come out of college and stop learning. When no one is forcing you to learn and improve yourself, it’s easy to do nothing. Sonia and I recently realized that we’ve really slacked off in the learning category since college – we still read good books, but the focused, intentional learning…
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Fear is two-faced
Fear tells you stories. Fear of action (procrastination), fear of failure (anxiety), fear of success (self-sabotage), they all speak countless lies into your ear, but they have problems keeping their stories straight. Fear will often tell you two lies at once – one vary convincing lie, and another lie, also very convincing, but the exact opposite of what it…
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Embrace distraction, beat anxiety
“Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and do the work” – Chuck Close …yeah, but buckling down and focusing on something for hours is tough, isn’t it? Often when I’m working on something that I really care about, I feel a deep anxiety that scares me away from the work. My…
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Moving all of my piles of junk
Yup, I’m moving. When you move, you realize how much junk you have – it’s incredible how much is accumulates. I just talked to a guy a while ago who moved halfway across the country using the biggest u-haul available, and he still had to rent storage area in California to store a bunch of…