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What are you doing right NOW? I’ve talked about proper goal setting techniques. I’ve yammered about to-do lists. I’ve tried the game, but it’s all crap for me. I don’t think in terms of formalities and committing to goals. I don’t think about the next thing to do on a list. I just DO stuff. [...]
We are decision makers. Every last one of us. There are very few things which happen in our lives which do not happen as a result of some decision that we made. The only decisions that we did not make, and this is up for debate in some religions, is to whom we should be [...]
I’ve always believed in karma and dependent origination, but it took meeting The Unlikely Mage to have an actual word for what I thought. I believe that there’s a reaction for every action. I know that if I follow certain paths and extrapolate the consequences that I can very well predict my personal future. What [...]
There’s a point in the day that I can’t write any more, no matter how much enthusiasm I have for the act. My writing becomes the equivalent of an elementary school primer, where I expound upon seeing Dick and Jane in all of their dog watching glory. The imagination goes by the wayside, and I [...]
There’s a metric fuckton of motivational books on the market. They’ll range from ‘lose weight now!’ to ‘write three books in a week!’ but they’re all selling the same thing. You know, there might even be some hidden secret to getting ahead in your life. Both of us know that there’s no secret, and no [...]
Deteriorating health has driven one of my friends to the point of being a frail, frail old woman. Issues with her spine force her to be in a wheelchair. Digestive conditions translate into a potent regimen of painkillers and low appetite. She is a shadow of the woman that I once knew, and it pains [...]
Awesomeness is borne of a whole crapload of work. We’ve got to work for the dreams that we’ve got. We’ve got to work for our food, water, shelter, and medicine. We’ve got to work to achieve the dreams that we’ve got. There’s a whole crapload of work, and through that crapload of work we become [...]
