The Unicorn Life Planning Principle

While I was at that retreat last weekend I had a conversation with the man who organizes it (we’ll call him Craig, for privacy’s sake). Craig has been doing this for a while — decades, perhaps — and so he knows a thing or two about organizing events. I was lucky to…

Practicing Slack

There’s another key concept from the Scarcity book I’m listening to that is the second “game changer” in terms of how I look at the overall concept of meeting needs. It’s the idea of slack.

The first thing to realize is that this is nothing to do with the term “slacker”…

The Secret Cause of Procrastination

One of the bloggers that I faithfully read is Mark Manson. While he might use a little too much profanity for some tastes, I really enjoy (and, let’s be honest, emulate) his style of writing and I almost always take away something useful (or at least insightful) from…

Hot Fudge for Habit Change

It’s not often that I get to come to this blog with a clear-cut “Hey, this worked exactly the way I expected!” anecdote. But this is one of those times.

I have a weakness for hot fudge brownie sundaes. When I say weakness, I mean that the bowl of gooey…

A Raw Attempt at Money Management

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“Is That So?”

I think, if only for my own peace of mind, it’s time for my own particular retelling of one of my favorite Zen parables:

In a small village, there was a young woman who was illicitly seeing a young man without the knowledge of their parents. When she became pregnant her parents…