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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…
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Food is Bad Entertainment
You don’t have to look very far to see indicators that maybe we don’t have the best relationship with food. Most people are overweight, unhealthy, and making little to no effort to change those things. These are, presumably, good people who want to do what’s best for themselves and their families. The problem with our…
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Joking Around With Strangers
I can’t imagine that working at a car rental place is much fun. Especially if you’re working in Las Vegas and the line is full of angry customers who have waited an hour only to be barraged with company-managed upsells. I wasn’t angry, but I was definitely in line for about an hour waiting to…
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The Importance of Having Varied Interests
My friend Jimmy was working on his business, Minaal. Every once in a while, when you’re really working hard, you need to come up for air and take a break. You want to do something that uses the opposite side of your brain to give the analytical side a break. Not sure if that’s how…
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Why Pack Ultralight
I really agonized over the purchase of my latest jacket. For about fifty dollars more, I could get a jacket that was .8 ounces lighter than the other one. It sounds crazy just writing that. In the end I found a deal to get that jacket for the same price, so I was spared the…
