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Decoupling Your Finances
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m pretty frugal. I like spending money on things like the island, travel, and good food, but I also like saving money. I spend very little money frivolously, and don’t have an overwhelming appetite for luxury. I don’t make much money, either. I’m content to have enough income to fund my…
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How To Make Lots of Great Friends
Sometimes as a plane takes off, or a line for a bus inches forward, I occupy myself by making a mental list of things I’m grateful for. The list is never-ending, but the item on the list that I’m always most grateful for are the people in my life, my friends and family. I don’t…
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The 2014 Transpacific Cruise
The end of a long cruise always feels a bit unfair. It doesn’t seem right that tomorrow morning I’ll be unceremoniously dumped onto the pier in Yokohama, Japan. Over the past fifteen days I’ve become accustomed to my new social circle of nine friends and a couple thousand senior citizens. The new routines we’ve made…
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Believing Your Own Hype
Today I got selected as one of the first Amtrak residents. The original pool was narrowed down from sixteen thousand to just over one hundred, and then again to twenty four. This event makes it increasingly difficult to push away the idea that I might actually be a good writer. I was flattered, but not…
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When to be Stubborn
Some of the most interesting attributes are those that are both good and bad. A simple prescription of elimination of the attribute or building it isn’t sufficient. Instead we must learn to manage it, blunt the negatives and channel the positives. Stubbornness is one such attribute, and it’s one that I’m perhaps too intimately familiar…
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Building Empathy
There are some skills you have to build only because you’re so bad at them. Mediocrity can go overlooked, but we’re reminded of our biggest weaknesses constantly, either directly or through the reactions of others. For me, one such weakness was the inability to empathize. I may have realized that my way wasn’t always right…
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Where Your Advantages Will Come From
Since you’re reading my blog, it’s probably fair to guess that you’re not content to coast through life, and that you’ve got ambitions that you’re chasing. Maybe, like mine, these ambitions are beyond your current scope. They’re things that will require years of effort to achieve, and maybe the feasibility of ever achieving them is…
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My New Book: Superhuman by Habit
After many months of being deprioritized due to Sett and other obligations, I’ve finally finished my new book on habits, Superhuman by Habit. It’s available right now on Amazon. I’ve been writing for nine years now, and a good portion of that time has been spent focused on self-improvement. How can I get the most…
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How To Earn Hundreds of Thousands of Frequent Flyer Miles Every Year
As I write, I’m flying over Wyoming on my way to Kansas City, Missouri. I’ll be there for approximately fourteen hours, just long enough to watch the Invicta FC 8 Women’s MMA fight and then get some sleep. Such opulence! To fly across the country just to go to a sporting event. The truth, though,…
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How to Be Frugal And Live a Good Life
I think that the way most people spend money is absolutely nuts. I see people buying things they can’t really afford, or things that will have no lasting impact on their lives whatsoever, and I cringe. Be frugal, I want to yell. On the other hand, there are people who go way out of their…
