I, Notebookist.

Oh, my, how I do love me some notebooks. It started way back in 2005, when I decided to take up journaling the old-fashioned way…

Do Your Dance

The third and final suggestion, also from Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience, is dear to my heart. It has its roots in the concept of fiero, or the feeling of pride of accomplishment innate to everyone. Jane McGonigal talks a lot about it in her book Reality is Broken,

Is Your Tech a Parasite or a Symbiote?

Are you familiar with the idea of the earworm? Here, let me see if this helps: Juuusst sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, the tale of a fateful trip…

No? Maybe you’re too young. How about: Because I’m Happpeeeeee…Clap along if you…

Three Apps for Making Distance Shorter

I tend to travel a great deal. It makes it kind of tough, at times, to maintain a connection with the ones I love. That may seem strange in the age of so many social media connections and such, but that’s only if you forget about the idea of signal-to-noise.

Cultivate Presence Instead of Boredom

Zazu: What’s going on, Sire?

Mufasa: Pouncing practice, Zazu. Hold still.

Zazu: Very good, Sire — wait, what?

FIP: The Hardest Habit I’ve Ever Tried

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had noticed myself falling victim to a common malady among personal development hobbyists. I call it “All the Things!” after a beloved comic called Hyperbole and a Half. The symptoms of the malady are pretty simple:

Allies in Your Epic Life

Readers of this blog will know that I’m a pretty big fan of leveraging the narrative of our lives to augment reality. Whether it’s putting on my combat boots and reminding myself that I’m a hard-charging devil dog or pretending that the driving snow simply means that we’ve made the…

Sharing the Savor

The Greatest Thing Happened To Me

…just the other morning. Because of some scheduling changes, my Middle Daughter and I were doing our coding course at 7am. We’ve just finished the PHP section of the course, and if that doesn’t mean anything to you…

Loving Last Year

I mentioned in last week’s podcast that I’m really not one for coming up with “End-of-Year” articles (or even “Beginning-of-Year”; if I’d gotten the Self Journal in June, I would have started my review then). And this one doesn’t really count, because it’s not original.

Creating Your Epic Life

• “I am a writer.”
• “I am ronin.”
• “I am a hard-charging devil-dog! OOHRAH!”
• “I…I am a dancer.”

These are all declarative statements that have applied to me in the past. Ronin, in case…