Tag: Mindset

It’s always better to look at actions than words. If someone says that they’re committed to being healthy, but then they order a fat stack of pancakes… well, maybe they’re not so committed after all. Recently I’ve been thinking about this truism in terms of goals and priorities. Your priorities are what they look like.…

A friend of mine founded a company with another guy. When they started out, their lives and ambitions were very similar, even if the principles bubbling below the surface weren’t. One thing they both had in spades was hustle. They did what it took– no matter what– to keep their business going forward. Over time,…

A couple months ago I was minding my own business, reading a book, about to go to sleep. I give twitter one last check on my phone and see a message from my friend Jenna telling me of a deal to go to Lima, Peru for $380 round trip. I have no particular reason to…

When you’re doing something hard, the effort curve looks something like a bell curve. At first, as you’re dabbling in it, you don’t put in much effort. Then it progressively gets harder and harder until you finally reach that peak. That’s when you “make it” and things start to get a little easier. But we…

I have a whole book written that you’ll probably never see. A third of a novel that I’ll finish by the end of the year, but may never publish. Pages of rap lyrics I’ve written. Over fifty finished blog posts that will never see the light of day. Forty videos of me talking to the…

I’m the kind of guy who’s so dependent on his laptop that it makes sense to always have the best one for my needs. I’m willing to go to extraordinary lengths for a good laptop, because it’s probably the one item I own that directly impacts my productivity. I’ve had my trusty Sony Vaio Z12…

For new readers to the site, or old readers who haven’t been paying attention, I live in my small RV. I bought my first RV in 2007, and except for short term travel rentals, I haven’t lived in a house or apartment or any other non-wheeled dwelling since then. This sounds rather extreme, but I…

For some of us, achieving goals is hard. Like real hard. I know for it often seems that way. I set a goal and start doing something and I slack. A couple days later I’ve abandoned the goal all together. In some cases this was unacceptable. I really wanted to complete my goal. I needed…

Emotions are a matter perspective. Rich people can be miserable, poor people can be happy, single people can be fulfilled, and married couples can be lonely. The most prepared amongst us can feel nervous, and the least prepared can feel confident. The situations we find orselves in provide cues to our brains, but our internal…

Sunday night was a scary time for me. After more than a year of work, SETT was ready to be deployed on Tynan.com. Well, maybe not “ready”, exactly, but I was sick of putting it off. One line in a configuration file was changed, and my site switched from WordPress to SETT. And then… nothing…