Since I’ve been managing people I’ve been trying to be very aware of not creating the kind of work-all-the-time environment that I’ve been through. In fact, one of the owner’s mandates to me when I got hired was to find ways to keep people so happy that they wouldn’t want …
What is the Definition of Irony?
Starting a blog about not having enough time in life, then not having enough time in life to write on the blog. It’s been very busy lately with my wife graduating from nursing school and trying to re-calibrate our time and plans. One bright spot for me has been that, …
The Distraction of Planning
The times I’ve been most successful in changing the path of my life have been when I don’t think too much about the next step. I just do. Not to quote Yoda like a super geek, but life is very much a “do or do not, there is no try” …
Working on the Site a Bit
I’ve been slow to post lately mainly due to some work I’ve been putting into the site. A few more tweaks and I’ll get back to posting.
Books That Change Your Life
It’s mid-week and time to look for some inspiration. I came across this excellent post titled 18 great reads that changed my life. I’ve read a few of the items on the list and agree that they can motivate you to a higher plane. The two on the list that …
Applying the 4-Hour Workweek
There’s many self-help and lifestyle books on the market these days. Some are very good. I particularly like The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. I’ve taken many ideas from that book such as trying to find what he refers to as “my muse”. It’s the thing that you find that …
How to be Positive
As I’ve started down my new path of trying to re-align my lifestyle, I’m constantly trying to retain a positive outlook. This is difficult. All of the normal pressures of life are still around me. Work, family, bills, and of course, trying to make changes. So how do I stay …
The Most Dangerous Question
Somewhere around my second startup I began feeling as if I was on the wrong path. I couldn’t conceptualize in my head why this was. I hadn’t come across the right way to express it. Bryan Franklin hits the nail on the head with this talk. This is the very …
Success vs. Fulfillment
I was looking around for something motivating today. I found this clip of Tony Robbins talking about reasons as to why we do what we do. The talk he gives focuses on the key needs we all have. What appealed to me most about his presentation was his contrast of …
Baby Steps – The First Few Weeks
The motivation behind why I started this site was to document my own evolution out of the corporate life and through that, find that way out. So far I’ve taken what I consider the first small steps. This site was the first baby step. Set something up and just write. …
The Zen of Living
The last few days have been rough. My wife’s nursing school schedule is hectic, the kids continue to battle us over sleep and try as I might, work is starting to consume my life more and more. It’s thrown some of our short term plans for this week into the …
Tips for a Positive Mental Outlook
My kids won’t sleep. My daughter wakes up at 5AM every morning after a night of battling to get her to bed before 9PM and my son is afraid of the fictional spider in his room. It’s enough to make you go nuts. My wife is stressed and I’m stressed. …
Excuses and Distractions in Your Life
I had a martial arts instructor who once gave us a talk about excuses. This was after he put us through a grueling two hour workout. He started by stating that had anyone of us known that the “normal” training session was going to be so difficult, would we all …
Small Steps to Change
Change is never really something that happens overnight. Not true change anyway. The fat man who wakes up the next morning and appears to make radical lifestyle altercations didn’t “just” decided to do it that instant. The need to change was building for awhile. Every time he couldn’t get up …
The Art of the Pivot
In the start up world of technology there’s a term called “pivoting”. Basically, once you’ve spent a few million dollars of a VC’s money, you realize your original approach to your vision just isn’t going to work. Understand that the vision may still be valid, but your first draft of …
Where’s the Passion?
Where to begin. I’m so drained lately I can’t seem to connect to those things I used to love. Those hobbies and pastimes I took so much joy in are distant memories. I can feel them coming back into focus when I take some time off. A few days here …
The Beginning
So here I am. I have a wife and two wonderful kids. We have a great home in a nice city. My career is where I want it to be and yet, I’m not happy. I keep trying to shake it but I can’t. Something’s not right. “Stop being selfish”, …