CREATIVE CULTIVATION + PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT + GOAL SETTING + TIME MANAGEMENT
What does it mean to be happy? The pursuit of happiness, right? I mean it’s in the Declaration of Independence, it has to be important? You hear people talking about it ALL the time: “I just want him to be happy,” “My greatest hope is that my kids grow up to be happy.” “I need…Continue Reading “Why Chasing Happiness Never Works…and what to do instead”
Where does creativity come from? Our brains, right? Okay, not funny. But it’s telling, right? People spend lifetimes wanting and waiting for inspiration to hit them. They think if they want it hard enough, a muse will wander by and whisper beautiful things into their ear. Bad news, this won’t happen. Creativity begins and ends…Continue Reading “5 Quintessential Ways to Activate your Creativity for Writers & Songwriters”
How long does it take to read a book? What about writing a book? How about learning a language? How fast, just guess, can you learn a language? Unless you’re learning how to boil an egg, whatever it is you want to learn is going to take time. This seems obvious. But the idea that…Continue Reading “How Life Hacks Train You to Fail, or Everything You Want Takes Longer Than You Think”
I’ve got this suspicion. I think you want to be more. I think what you are right now is not the fullness of what you want to be. What you always wanted to be. I think, deep down, that you think you’re more. You believe you were meant to be more. Now I don’t mean…Continue Reading “How To Be Exactly Who You Want to Be Without Losing Who You Already Are”
There’s this insidious little rumor going around that having too many hobbies or interests is a bad thing? Here’s the spoiler, if you’re not one for long intros: you can’t. I don’t give a shit what anyone tells you. I don’t give a shit what anyone believes. There are no rules, spoken, written, or otherwise,…Continue Reading “Focus isn’t the Answer to Having too Many Interests”
This year has been the year of change for Example in Metaphor. Those who follow, know that I had some infrastructural goals going into 2019. I was examining the way the blog was laid out, not to mention, experimenting with some different post formats. I’m not going to lie, some of these experiments were a…Continue Reading “10 Goals for the Next 90 Days – 2019 Q3”
Everybody wants to fight time. They want to find more of it. Optimize every last fucking niche of their life to locate that speck of time that will help them achieve whatever goals they think they have to accomplish. They “hack” everything. This might even be you. In all fairness, it’s me too. I’ve tried…Continue Reading “Time Is Not Your Enemy”
So I’m running again! Kind of. Not a lot, and it’s very uncomfortable. The pain isn’t like before, but it’s there. After 8 weeks, or some bullshit like that, I still get that pain after 2 miles or so. Again, nowhere near where it was, but it’s still there. But I don’t care. I’m running….Continue Reading “A Return To Running + The 7 Step Running Injury Cure + Pinning”
We’re a quarter deep into 2019! Oh how time flies! Today I’ll be looking at how I did in the first quarter vis-a-vis my goals. Like all beginnings, this one came with some…adaptations. I’ll talk about that. I’ll also outline what went well, what did not, and what I learned going into the rest of…Continue Reading “2019 Goals – Q1 Review”
With the knee and everything else, running is stalled out. Not to mention, we were on vacation this week in sunny Florida. So, instead of the continued bemoaning by me regarding my state of running, I thought I’d reflect on a purging game I undertook last November. Yes, the purge. If you know me, you…Continue Reading “Playing The Minimalism Game”