Tag: Mindset

My sister told me about a date she went on recently. When she very politely said that she didn’t think they were a good match, the guy went nuts and said all sorts of rude and outlandish things. Poor guy. He almost certainly knew that he was digging an even deeper hole by saying the…

I know objectively that I did not have a great Tuesday. I woke up well rested, had my tea, got some unexpected work done, and had lunch. I felt prepared. I was entered into a tournament at the World Series of Poker, one where I got 12th last year, and I was hoping to do…

A entrepreneur friend of mine, who happens to be female, and I were talking. Another female entrepreneur had said that she couldn’t get funding for her company because she was female, and that she would have easily gotten it if she was male. Now, I have no idea if this is true or not. As…

Making decisions is fascinating to me. Once you build a base level of competence, where you can trust that you will follow through with whatever you decide to do, you could say that your life is largely an exercise in decision making. There’s a concept we’ve all probably heard of, called paralysis of choice, where…

I did the math again. Fifteen minutes to get to the car rental place, five minutes to check out, five minutes to wait for the shuttle, fifteen minutes to get to the airport, five minutes to get through security, two minutes to run to my gate. That was forty-seven minutes to get to a plane…

I woke up yesterday morning prepared to grind away at Cruise Sheet all day. This is actually a great type of day for me– I love non-workout days when I have the whole day to block off and make huge amounts of progress. I always start the same way, though: tea and email. In my…

I never published it, but I wrote a post a while back about how watching TV was my canary in the coalmine. If I wanted to watch TV, that was a surefire sign that I wasn’t fully engaged in my work, and that I needed to take a look at what was causing that. I’ve…

My friend Sebastian has a great way of asking simple questions that create good discussions. We were talking about someone getting offended at something and he asked the not-quite-rhetorical question: why do people get offended? You and I, he said, never get offended. Being offended seems to have become a national, if not international, pastime.…

I’ve been really excited to work on Cruise Sheet recently. I’ve made some big strides and am now an actual cruise agency rather than a web site that creates affiliate links. It’s still fairly similar, but now I can control the experience the whole way through and the increase in revenue makes it look more…

I remember waking up as a kid on Christmas, heavy with anticipation. Waking up early never came naturally to me, but usually I was up before seven in the morning. It wasn’t just that good things were about to happen to me, it was that those good things were also surprises. As I woke up…