Daily Blog

Day 82 – The Greatest Resistance

Day 81 – Face Janus Again

Day 80 – The Power of Showing Up Every Day

Day 79 – Staying the Course

Day 78 – Greatness is Built-in Increments

Day 77 – Spirit of Transformation

Day 76 – The Pink Ribbon

Day 75 – The Shopping Mall

Day 74 – Setting Your Bearing

Day 73 – Gingerbread Competition

Day 72 – Make Gumbo Together

Day 71 – Automation Only Works for the Efficient

Day 70 – Constant Pressure

Day 69 – Rest is Not Weakness

Day 68 – Are You Refusing God’s Call?

Day 67 – Repetition Sunday

Day 66 – Expressing Intent

Day 65 – A Good Defense

Day 64 – Compound Your Interest

Day 63 – Embrace the Chaos

Day 62 – Stop Being Available

Day 61 – Protecting the Sacred Time

Day 60 – Contemplating Rituals

Day 59 – The Importance of Drills

Day 58 – Cut it Out

Day 57 – A Plan Has Two Requirements

Day 56 – The Importance of Clarity

Day 55 – Everything but the Root Cause

Day 54 – Distraction Free Environment

Day 53 – Concentration is a Skill

Day 52 – The Bridge is Over

Day 51 – The Road Not Taken

Day 50 – Anthem – Part Eleven

Day 49 – I Am Waiting

Day 48 – Chimes of Freedom

Day 47 – And Here I am, Fighting Dandelions

Day 46 – Sabbath Poem I

Day 45 – Warrior Rituals

Day 44 – Slow Down to Speed Up

Day 43 – The Goal is Failure

Day 42 – Navigating Life as a Neutral Particle

Day 41 – The Law of Entropy

Day 40 – Things You Must Do

Day 39 – Prevent Tailspins

Day 38 – Self Destruct Mode

Day 37 – Thinking is Work

Day 36 – Label and Tag the Thought

Day 35 – Run Toward Conflict

Day 34 – Value is ALWAYS Built

Day 33 – Shorten the Defeat Cycle

Day 32 – Mind Wandering is Good Sometimes

Day 31 – Cogito, ergo sum

Day 30 – Self Disclosure is Good

Day 29 – Under Your Control

Day 28 – Constant Reminders are Required

Day 27 – Gain the Relax Skill

Day 26 – Be Wary of Time Thieves

Day 25 – The Basics Will Destroy You

Day 24 – Lift Off Requires the Most Energy

Day 23 – Starting from Perfect is Not Engineering

Day 22 – More Than Three Principle

Day 21 – Waiting for Perfect Time, is Wasting Time

Day 20 – The Day I Decided Never to Color Inside the Lines

Day 19 – When the Shine Wears Off

Day 18 – Multi-Generational Perspective

Day 17 – Progress Everyday

Day 16 – Advice to Younger Self

Day 15 – When Focus Fades

Day 14 – Lean Into Discomfort

Day 13 – Gameify

Day 12 – Self as System

Day 11 – Woop Thinking

Day 10 – Do Something Epic

Day 9 – Sure Foundation

Day 8 – Just Do It Anyway

Day 7 – Incremental Habits

Day 6 – Run Everyday

Day 5 – Daily Writing

Day 4 – The Day of Rest

Day 3 – The One Thing

Day 2 – The Power of Prayer

Day 1 – Embarking on the Journey: A Commitment to Growth

Day 365 – Mission Accomplished

Day 364 – You Do Not Have to Be Exceptional Everyday

Day 363 – Finding an Outlet

Day 362 – Dealing with Sudden Irritability

Day 361 – Recovery is Work Too

Day 360 – Time is The Primary Ingredient

Day 359 – A Tool for Each Job

Day 358 – Consider the Basics

Day 357 – When Tunnel Vision Is Needed

Day 356 – Being Pretentious is Hard Work

Day 355 – Suffering Has Value

Day 354 – Considering Linguistic Habits

Day 353 – When to Step In

Day 352 – Map Your Life Workflow

Day 351 – Success is a 1:Many Relationship

Day 350 – The Best Process is the One That You Follow

Day 349 – What is a Decision?

Day 348 – What are You Willing to Cut Out?

Day 347 – Life Lesson from the Iron Tiger

Day 346 – Achieving Stillness

Day 345 – Should We Practice Herd Anonymity?

Day 344 – Talk It Out

Day 343 – Humans Hallucinate Too

Day 342 – There Will Never be An Apple

Day 341 – A Followed Process is Best

Day 340 – Considering Kuzushi

Day 339 – Learning is Not Just Curiosity

Day 338 – Introduce Variability Into Life

Day 337 – Copy First, Then Innovate

Day 336 – The Problem is Not The Problem

Day 335 – Digging Deep

Day 334 – Where Do You Find Peace?

Day 333 – Good Character Development

Day 332 – If you are in, go all in.

Day 331 – Prepare and Execute a Deep Work Session

Day 330 – Speed Usually Wins

Day 329 – A Note on “Case Studies”

Day 328 – The Idea of You

Day 327 – What Moment are You Building Toward?

Day 326 – It’s Not the Ritz – A Lesson in Realized Value

Day 325 – Only So Much Room Under the Carpet

Day 324 – The One That is There

Day 323 – The Escalating Scale of Productivity

Day 322 – Above All, Be Genuine

Day 321 – Personal Feedback Loop

Day 320 – Pattern Recognition Speeds up Decision Making

Day 319 – Design is the Focus on What Ought to Be

Day 318 – What is Your Era?

Day 317 – Time for Creativity

Day 316 – The Power of Naivety

Day 315 – Getting to Simplicity Requires a Lifetime of Complexity

Day 314 – When it Comes to Doing Hard Things – Context is Everything

Day 313 – When Intelligence Becomes Noise

Day 312 – Don’t Advertise Big Macs to Epicures

Day 311 – Methodology is not Strategy

Day 310 – Weird Is Awesome

Day 309 – When to Make Tough Decisions

Day 308 – You are Single Threaded

Day 307 – Trust the Process?

Day 306 – Accuracy Costs

Day 305 – The Taming of Pegasus

Day 304 – The Lernaean Hydra

Day 303 – The Refutation of Dataism

Day 302 – Faith is NOT Belief

Day 301 – The General Consensus?

Day 300 – Swim Upstream

Day 299 – Dealing with Bombastic Bob

Day 298 – You Fear What You Pay For

Day 297 – Ignorance IS Bliss

Day 296 – The Danger behind Impressive Charts

Day 295 – Semantic Satiation or Bleaching?

Day 294 – a Desk and a Phone

Day 293 – But First, Pray

Day 292 – The Definition of Trust

Day 291 – Don’t Be A Rock

Day 290 – Commitments Require Habits

Day 289 – Observe First

Day 288 – Organizations Gravitate toward Complexity

Day 287 – The Past Does Not Exist

Day 286 – Make No Waves, Back No Losers

Day 285 – Happiness is Relative, Truth is Absolute

Day 284 – How to Treat People

Day 283 – You Can’t Fake Enthusiasm

Day 282 – Growth is Simple

Day 281 – Perseverance

Day 280 – Building a Working Group

Day 279 – The Best Made Plans

Day 278 – Two Ways of Seeing a River

Day 277 – Nature’s High Festival

Day 276 – That’s the Way it Was This Morning

Day 275 – This Land is Your Land

Day 274 – The Bucket is No Metaphor

Day 273 – The Road Not Taken

Day 272 – What I Lived For

Day 271 – The Wilderness

Day 270 – Everybody is Good at Dreamin

Day 269 – What Do “They” Want?

Day 268 – A Little Help from Friends

Day 267 – Pay for Lies, Get Lies

Day 266 – Circumstance is Contextual but Not Certain

Day 265 – Never Too Late to Tell Your Story

Day 264 – What is Possible in 100 Days?

Day 263 – The Powerful are Always Simple

Day 262 – The Simple Reason Why It is Hard to Think

Day 261 – What You Should be Doing?

Day 260 – Meet New People

Day 259 – Communication as Art

Day 258 – Declare War on Self-Consumerism

Day 257 – A Life of Upgrades

Day 256 – Cut in Half

Day 255 – Cytokine Storm

Day 254 – Irony is Dialectic – Part 3

Day 253 – What is Not There – Part 2

Day 252 – On Putting Things In Order – Part 1

Day 251 – When the System Becomes the Work

Day 250 – Power to the People

Day 249 – Small Advantages Accumulate

Day 248 – Top of Mind is Not an Opinion

Day 247 – Visualization

Day 246 – Investments Take Time To Mature

Day 245 – A Philosopher that Messed Me Up

Day 244 – My First Philosophy Class

Day 243 – Adaptation versus Adoption

Day 242 – Wanderin’ Around

Day 241 – Mimicry is Hard to Avoid

Day 240 – Motivation is a Liar

Day 239 – The Minimum is Still Progress

Day 238 – Free People or Free Data?

Day 237 – The Issue will be Energy Consumption

Day 236 – The AI Fever Dream

Day 235 – I run.

Day 234 – Self Version 6.2

Day 233 – Being a Top Performer Means Being Different

Day 232 – Horse Vision

Day 231 – It is Not Adoption, It’s Evolution

Day 230 – 15 Minutes Adds Up

Day 229 – Ceremony Holds Value

Day 228 – How You Start is Not How You Will Be

Day 227 – Be Audacious, Unpredictable and a Little Crazy

Day 226 – Goals Should be Unobtainable!

Day 225 – The Donut Shop and the Gym

Day 224 – Dual Coding Theory

Day 223 – The Symbol of the Launchpad

Day 222 – Consider the Long Tail

Day 221 – AI, Turkeys and David Hume

Day 220 – Your Problem is that You Need a MacGuffin

Day 219 – What is Your Alter Ego?

Day 218 – The Four Pirates – Boredom, Impatience, Fear, and Confusion

Day 217 — Innovation Myopia or Sitting on Gold

Day 216 – The Rule of Thumb

Day 215 – The Apostrophe In Mother’s Day

Day 214 – When the Blue Jay Procrastinates

Day 213 – Beware of the Synecdoche

Day 212 – Courage is Not the Absence of Fear

Day 211 – My Thoughts on Criticism (and 10 tips on feedback)

Day 210 – Become an Edge Dancer

Day 209 – Our Doubts are Traitors

Day 208 – Miracle of the Holy Fire

Day 207 – No New Thing Under the Sun

Day 206 – Out of Thin Air

Day 205 – We Wield the Double Edged Sword

Day 204 – Persistence is the New Perfection

Day 203 – Switching to Easy Mode

Day 202 — Pulling a Plow

Day 201 – Every Day is Every Day

Day 200 – Get Small

Day 199 – Write It Down

Day 198 – When Do You Trust Intuition?

Day 197 – The Art of Job Crafting

Day 196 – Stress is a Dependent Variable

Day 195 – Intent Matters

Day 194 – Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones

Day 193 – Law of Conditional Progression

Day 192 – Long Delays are Never Clever

Day 191 – das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten

Day 190 – Walkin’ Blues

Day 189 – Scale Yourself First

Day 188 – Greed is Good

Day 187 – Stop Seeking Recognition and Seek to Improve Instead

Day 186 – ‘Get There First’ Disease

Day 185 – The Impact of Daily Writing – Part II

Day 184 – The Impact of Daily Writing – Part 1

Day 183 – The Basics will Kill You

Day 182 – The Company Does Not Make the List

Day 181 – One Macro to Rule them All

Day 180 – Do You Have A Pledge?

Day 179 – Value Comes After Commitment

Day 178 – Where Innovation is Found

Day 177 – Art of Decision-Making

Day 176 – A Few Key Tips on Listening

Day 175 – The Best Time is Spent on the Front End

Day 174 – What Does it Really Mean to Prioritize?

Day 173 – Humility

Day 172 – The Return of “Ghosty”

Day 171 – Resilience is Earned

Day 170 – Time is Your Watering Can

Day 169 – What to Do When Failing

Day 168 – Naming the Beast – A Key Technique for Overcoming an Obstacle

Day 167 – 5 Quick Recommendations When Tired

Day 166 – Teaching Them to Reset

Day 165 – The Best Value is 4th Best

Day 164 – When I was a child I had a fever

Day 163 – Paying for Clarity: A Worthy Investment

Day 162 – Success Flows Like Water

Day 161 – Above All, Be Different

Day 160 – Hope is Not an Excuse

Day 159 – Open Your Mouth

Day 158 – The Near Death Experience

Day 157 – Revenue Solves All Problems

Day 156 – Life Design Flaw – Overengineering

Day 155 – Life Design Flaw – Hard Coding

Day 154 – Collision with Success

Day 153 – The Unexpected Feast

Day 152 – Reflection on Purpose

Day 151 – Your Umwelt, Another’s Umgebung

Day 150 – Run with Friends

Day 149 – Practical Consideration for ‘Saying Grace’

Day 148 – Stress and Inspiration are Not Friends

Day 147 – F=ma

Day 146 – CAPUCHI: Means Something to Me!

Day 145 – Change Awakens the Dormant

Day 144 – Gnome Time

Day 143 – Not Done Yet

Day 142 – Over Your Skis

Day 141 – Am I Valuable

Day 140 – Go Big

Day 139 – Mapping Life

Day 138 – Saturation Point

Day 137 – Searching for the Path

Day 136 – Every Day Counts

Day 135 – Roll Your Own

Day 134 – The Human Venture

Day 133 – In Becomes the Out

Day 132 – Your Freedom of Speech

Day 131 – Brain Fog?

Day 130 – Success is counted sweetest

Day 129 – The Hobson’s Choice

Day 128 – I belong in a Zombie Apocalypse

Day 127 – The Ascent of Alex

Day 126 – Expressing Value

Day 125 – “Let Me Talk You Through It”

Day 124 – Stay Stoked

Day 123 – Troughs Feel Bad

Day 122 – The Game is Not Fair

Day 121 – Patience and Repetition

Day 120 – From Russia with Grit

Day 119 – Inbox Anxiety

Day 118 – Use My Shirt

Day 117 – The Greatest Gift

Day 116 – Achievement Requires Sacrifice

Day 115 – Think Bigger

Day 114 – Listen

Day 113 – Power of Self-Observation

Day 112 – Setbacks = Strength

Day 111 – Please and Thank You, That’s the Secret of the Nile!

Day 110 – Whit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye

Day 109 – What is Right and What is Necessary

Day 108 – Productivity Paradox

Day 107: Mastering the Basics

Day 106 – The Illusion of Shortcuts

Day 105 – Make Mistakes by Avoiding Risk

Day 104 – Clearing the Barricade

Day 103 – To Get Answers, Ask Questions

Day 102 – Why You Should Be Reading

Day 101 – All that is gold does not glitter

Day 100 – Rotten with Perfection

Day 99 – Makar Sankranti

Day 98 – Equilibrium is Not At Rest

Day 97 – The Role of Role-Playing

Day 96 – Redefining ‘Salesy’: The Power of Genuine Intent in Sales

Day 95 – Slicing the Market: Lessons from the Value Propositions of Pizza Giants

Day 94 – The ‘Mutual Conspiracy’ of Problem-Solving: A Reflection

Day 93 – “Burn the Boats” – A Misunderstood Maxim in Business Leadership

Day 92 – The Same Sheet of Music

Day 91 – Embrace Vulnerability

Day 90 – Three is the Magic Number

Day 89 – The Inner Game

Day 88 – Simplicity is Earned

Day 87 – Establish the Minimum

Day 86 – Runs with Deer

Day 85 – Metrics Matter

Day 84 – The Law of Not Overdoing It

Day 83 – The 365 Day Challenge