Day Off – Yeah, Right
I remember Christmas Week when I was a kid. Everyone around, frivolity everywhere, playing outside, playing inside, avoiding a few of the adults that seemed to bring their baggage home with them for the holidays. However, even with that occasional exchange, people seemed to be happy and relieved to be around each other again. I […]
Free the Sax
Walking around the downtown Riverside Festival of Lights last night I came across a saxophone player that was playing some beautiful music. He was sitting with family and a few friends and playing his instrument and the crowd could sense the beauty of the moment and even their loud roar of voices quieted a bit […]
Something from Nothing
Creating something from nothing is probably the hardest thing to do in life. Potentially the most rewarding as well. You never really are starting from nothing, but the process of creating something of value that others will trade for is a necessary experience for anyone to really understand what it is like to be human. […]
The Hoka Revival
Well, it is official. The family has been all converted to Hoka’s now. We all have the various brands of men’s, women’s, trail, and all sorts of colored space age looking running shoes in our closets. I suppose this is a good sign? Perhaps by having a running shoe people might actually run? Or perhaps […]
Meeting My Feminine Side
I spent a few hours with a Jungian Analyst today. If you do not know what that is, think Psychologist that is trained in the psychoanalytic method popularized by Carl Jung. Carl Jung was a famous psychiatrist who worked with/under Sigmund Freud up until they started to disagree. One of the things that Carl Jung […]
Treating Commitments Poorly
The problem with making commitments all the time is that you start to get used to NOT keeping them. You promise yourself something and then the next day you fail. You see, you just do not take yourself seriously. In medieval times there was this religious trend called self-flagellation. Effectively flogging oneself for not keeping […]
Repetition is the Solution
There are several innate skills that we all have being born as humans. Skills inherited from thousands and thousands of years of genetic conditioning. They are part of the brain that we call our subconscious, primal, or instinct. Perhaps one of the most powerful ones that we have is that of pattern recognition. Humans have […]
Upgrade
The 365 Commitment is due for a major upgrade. My daily blog is getting a serious update this next two weeks, along with my life!
Confidence Crosses Many Chasms
Youthful confidence allows us to do things that our older selves would never do. Confidence in general allows us to run past many dangers that would prevent us from even progressing if we could see that we were really facing. Sometimes just going blindly toward a goal that is extremely ambitious is the only real […]
The Human SuperPower
I am going to have more on this topic, because it hit me with some inspiration today. However a key super power that all humans have is the ability to recognize patterns. The question really is, how do you use and improve upon this superpower. Simple. Repetition. Lots of it. You know someone who is […]