Year: 2015
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If You Travel, Switch to T-Mobile
A real love fest went down in the strip mall off the highway in Santa Cruz. We stopped for lunch, at Chipotle of course, and I saw a T-Mobile store. One of my todo items for the following (overloaded) Monday, was to go to T-Mobile and enable wifi calling. But, hey, it’s not often you…
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The Mental Journey of Writing a Book
I remember when I wrote my first book. A friend told me I should do it, he was more financially successful than I was, and so I figured I may as well just do what he said. It was a daunting idea, but I thought that since so many other people had written books, I…
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Big Blocks of Time
Everyone wants to work smarter, not harder. No reason not to do both, really, but smarter seems so much more appealing sometimes because it requires less work. The free lunch at the end of that rainbow isn’t always as tasty as we might imagine, but once in a while there is a fundamental change one…
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Rolling With Punches
I stare at my phone’s clock. My watch isn’t accurate enough for situations like this. Up the street I look for the bus, the one with the happy-looking dog on it. It’s 3:22, and the bus was supposed to be there a minute ago. Normally I wouldn’t expect that sort of on-time performance, but this…
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Managing Thought Patterns
It’s got to be on millions of people’s bucket lists. It was on mine, too. My friends and I were going to Jordan, and my one must-do was to go to Petra, the famous city carved from rock in a canyon. And yet, as we were about to go, I didn’t want to go anymore.…
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Putting Yourself Out There
It is fairly easy to avoid getting rejected. Just don’t step up to the plate and you can never strike out. If you really look at it, this is the modus operandi for most people. They’re filter feeders, taking whatever comes their way, doing their best with it, but never going out and actively trying…
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Short Term Imbalance, Long Term Balance
I’ve been called unbalanced many times. Not mentally unbalanced (that I know of), but unbalanced in terms of how I spend my time. I spent a whole year doing nothing but pickup. Three years doing nothing but working 12+ hours a day. A lot of time traveling like a maniac. Sometimes people think I work…
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The Crazy Story of How I Met Justine
You might wonder why I haven’t mentioned a word about WifeQuest 9000 since posting a post saying I’m single. Maybe you’ve assumed that things are going really poorly, and I don’t want to talk about it. That might be what I would have assumed. The truth is that I’ve had to wait because of a…
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Happy With The Best Possible Option
My motorcycle gave me three years of virtually no problems. Then water got into the tank and caused it to intermittently stop running. A week after I had that fixed, the fuel pump broke, maybe because of the water issue. Once that was fixed, the bike felt better than ever, and I felt good making…
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Doing Things Every Day
Let’s say you’re going to put ten hours of effort into something, either a project or a habit. Your goal, or one of them, is to get as much out of those ten hours as possible. What will be important at the end isn’t the number of hours put in, but the results. One of…