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“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes “Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.” – James Baldwin “If you have passion, there isContinue reading “Some Enthusiastic Thoughts”

“If more information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.” -Derek Sivers “We use ‘information gathering’ as a means of delaying action. Because we’re doing something, it feels like movement, but it’s just procrastination in disguise. Information threatens to turn us into a rocking horse: Always moving, never going anywhere. WeContinue reading “No Info? No Problem.”

“The secret to happiness is work worth doing.” -Gretchen Rubin “The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want” but “What would excite me?” -Tim Ferriss “All that any of us need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” -Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman In The World, Part IIContinue reading “More Meaning”

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” -Salvador Dali “I will continue to generate stupid, silly stories, even after technology has made me completely obsolete. If there’s one edge I have over AI, it’s this irrationality, this need to createContinue reading “The Gift And Curse Of Seeing”

When it comes to making your art, starting a business or any kind of passion project…if someone can can talk you out of it, then you’re not ready to do it. Knowing this, you may want to closely guard what you’re cooking up until it’s fully baked.

“The ability to focus the mind is the ability to not let it run away with you. It does not mean not to think—but to be the one who directs your own thinking…Focus is not achieved by staring hard at something. It is not trying to force focus, nor does it mean thinking hard aboutContinue reading “Focused (and Confident)”

“Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.” -Abraham Maslow, Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation “In the pursuit of knowledge,every day something is added.In the practice of the Tao,every day something isContinue reading “less, less, less”

“A turtle step is the least I can do, divided in half. It’s also the only way I’ve ever achieved anything.” -Martha Beck May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desireThat disturbs you when you have settled for something safe. -John O’Donohue, book “To Bless The Space Between Us: A BookContinue reading “The “Not Feeling Like It” Plan”

Numero uno, top of the pantheon, biggest life hack there is. Ready for it? Are you sure? Are you really, really sure? Okay. Here we go… You are not your thoughts. You are the one WATCHING your thoughts. Say it with me. Once more with feeling… You are not your thoughts. You are the oneContinue reading “The Big Kahuna Of Life Hacks”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it upContinue reading “To Love Is To Be Vulnerable”