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…you need to choose what to do and act. You don’t need more money, you need more creativity and flexibility. You don’t need advertisement, you need hustling. You don’t need a better tool, you need to be a better artist. You don’t need better circumstances, you need to have a better attitude about the circumstances.…

…really excited? Like can’t-contain-it-heart-beating-stomach-fluttering excited? If you can’t remember when it was that you were excited about something, it’s time to try something new. It’s time to push yourself a little and see what you can do. Try something that seems risky. Here’s an assignment: e-mail someone you really admire, just to tell them how awesome…

“Pigeons experimented on in a scientific study were more responsive to intermittent reinforcements, than positive reinforcements. In other words, pigeons were more prone to act when they only sometimes could get what they wanted.”  (Wikipedia) …but you’re much more sophisticated, you’ve got a much more advanced brain, capable of reasoning – you don’t just reflexively press the bar for…

Go ahead, do as you please. Watch hours of TV every night, until your eyes hurt. Stay in the town where you went to high school, and keep partying with the same group of people you did in high school. Get a unchallenging job, and stick with it for decades. Get a house. Don’t get…

Hey, try this: every time you have to wait for a page to load or wait in line or wait at a stoplight or any of the many other tiny delays that waste our time, instead of huffing and fuming, try this tiny exercise: in your mind, examine the paces where you might be carrying…

Commitment devices (How the Twilight series kept my dishes washed) Have you ever tried starting a healthy new habit? It’s tough. Ever tried quitting something? That’s even tougher. I would guess that most people have habit that they want to acquire, or shed. One of the best ways to change habits is through the use…

Below is a piece that was written by a musician friend of mine who spent Christmas day and night on the streets of Lincoln, living as if he was homeless. When he sent me this writing, it was so powerful I immediately asked him if I could publish it.   I parked 2 blocks from…

Is a new term for me, but not a new concept. It has its roots in buddhism, but it’s become a popular way to handle emotions, outside of any spiritual connotations. When I recently read about mindfulness, I had a “So that’s what it’s called! Other people do that too!” moment. Mindfulness is an attempt to view…

I’ve started a business selling tiny, framed illustrations (it failed). I’ve worked with a publishing company to lay out a book (I quit). For about a year, I worked on creating a video game with a couple of friends (we stopped). I started and updated three different webcomics, drawing hundreds of comics (I stopped them all).…

Sleepyti.me is one of my greatest recent discoveries. I went from waking up feeling groggy and terrible almost every morning (no matter how much sleep I got the night before) to waking up feeling great every single day. It was a big problem, and thanks to this little webapp it’s not a problem any more. Isn’t…