The View from Fifty Feet

The View from Fifty Feet

Three pieces with a common theme. Observing a shift in perspective toward three aspects of work now that I’m doing my own work in a different way. Climbing the mountain of work-life balance pausing to take a look back from a modest 50 feet up. Answers not...
Be Here Now

Be Here Now

Once, soon after starting a job at an office I walked around the office’s interior courtyard during my lunch break to stretch after being confined in my cubicle all morning, and I noticed little placards on everyone’s desk that read: Be Here Now. I’m...
Get a Life.

Get a Life.

The world was cruel and cold and unforgiving. He had very little. What he had was worn and worthless and dirty, and he had to fight for every tiny bit of it – for every pathetic bit of what he had, and he had next to nothing. A tanned, manicured hand with a...
My Joe Rogan Experience

My Joe Rogan Experience

“Then why was he eating horse paste?” The email was the latest in a series of back and forth emails between myself and a friend. This is the level of argument of two rational, educated individuals. Our discussions have gotten to the point of tension. And...
Early Lessons of the $1000 Challenge

Early Lessons of the $1000 Challenge

Take Aways From The First Week of the $1000 Challenge This week I lived with the commitment of a promise to do more of MY work at the risk of losing $1000 if I failed to produce. I think it’s appropriate to just comment on the commitment to actually DO the...
I Don’t Need a New Year to Set a New Year Resolution

I Don’t Need a New Year to Set a New Year Resolution

This year I did what I always do, I set a New Year Resolution on January 1. It’s the same one I’ve been setting for the last several years because I always give up on it. This year would be different, I told myself thought I didn’t have any real plan...