Archive for the ‘personal’ Category

Today’s Saturday post was actually born on Sunday– but we’ll let it keep it’s “Saturday” moniker. I have a short personal update and an excellent resource to share with you so you’re getting a little bit of both world’s; lucky you. On Saturday I ran the Volkslaufe 5K race with Heather and my mom. Completing [...]

It’s been several weeks since the release of my first ebook so I thought I’d spend a few minutes sharing what I’ve learned, the constructive criticism I’ve received, and what I thought went well. The ebook was initially intended to be short, free, and largely composed of previously written pieces for thesimplerlife.net. I intended to [...]

I’m going to grab a hold of the precedent I set last weekend and hit you guys with another personal update. There are two reasons behind this second foray into self-focused prattle; first, I’m very tired, very behind, and very frazzled after returning from a week long vacation with my family; and secondly, I actually [...]

Daniel Coyle writes about something he calls the “Holy Shit Effect” (HSE) in his book The Talent Code. The HSE is that feeling you get when you see somebody who you thought was just like you doing something you’ve always wanted to do. When Curacao native Andruw Jones broke into Major League Baseball and hit [...]