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Last winter in Scotland
February is the twelfth-best month of the year. Doubly so in Scotland, one of the most oppressively rainy and dark places I have ever been. This is our fifth winter in a row here and, thankfully, our last.
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Save others or save yourself?
I’m fond of giving the advice that in order to help others, you must first help yourself, but the opposite is also true. You have to do both.
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Setting goals that counter the “what-the-hell effect”
I came across the “what the hell effect” today. Say you have a goal to limit your intake of sweets to no more than two per day. If you slip up one day and have three or four, the “what the hell effect” kicks in. This is our irrational reaction to missing a goal where…
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Being an adult
As someone who is still very much on the path to adulthood (and who still feels pretty far away from that at times), I appreciated getting a bit of a trail guide from a recent Q&A with legendary professional coach Jerry Colonna.
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Rebegin
Just like yesterday’s thought that you should keep all your passions and that consistency is best held lightly, here’s another one I’m reposting from Lucian James’ 24th Kō Strategy: The natural world is always changing, always in process. And so are you. You are not a thing, you are a process, a magnificent kind of…
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Keep all your passions
I love drawing just because. I wish I didn’t feel guilty about it sometimes. You know what I mean. A little guy comes into my head telling me, “Hey dude, aren’t you an adult? Shouldn’t you be spending this time leveling up your knowledge of AI or project management, or blah, blah, blah, (something that…
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A starting lineup of priorities
“Exercising remains one of the few things in life that you are always happy afterward that you did.” Alex Toussaint, Activate Your Greatness
