We all have rules. No more than two coffees. Only exercise in the morning. Go for a run on Sunday.
Whatever they are, they serve a purpose.
Or, served.
When an archer shoots, their feedback is hitting the target or missing it. What if a device attached to the bow beeped when the angle and direction would be just right? Hitting the target would be nigh certain.
The computer is an amazing versatile tool and also a time sucking machine.
A while back I decided to write by hand in the evening. I put my laptop out of my immediate line of sight (and thus out of mind), put on a chill remix and…
Stuff comes at you every day, fast. How do you handle it well?
You can dive in. Like a boxer bob and weave, punch and take hits. Into the fray.
Are you a coder? A marketer? A designer? A manager? A systems thinker? A writer?
We might call these labels or professions, but they are really filters. Filters on reality that make it look different from what it is. A biologist sees a…
You go see a movie you were looking forward to… and it dissapoints you. Someone else goes because of a friend and is pleasantly surprised. Why? Expectations.
We attach our feelings to events in the future (meeting, movie, vacation, work session…). We set the…
Buddha said that and it’s true.
We can convince ourselves of anything.
I’m a good person. I’m a bad person.
I’m confident. I’m shy.
This is what I doThis is what I don’t do
This is who I amThis is who I am not
When we’re children, we don’t care about this. We are. We play. We learn.
Donald Miller of StoryBrand said that when he gets stuck, he writes down 25 what if … statements. And then, suddenly, he begins to see ways forward.
We often see the value of something only when we lose it.
When we lose something valuable, we’re experiencing a sudden steep downward trend. That feels bad.
The trend is not about the absolute value. A poor man can lose $50 and feel the same as…
