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I want to be crazy about something again. And when I say crazy, I mean insanely obsessed, filled with passion, evangelistic borderline fundamentalist. A fanatic! I think you get the picture. I want to have that feeling when I first fell in love with The Savage Sword of Conan magazine....
How do I master the art of living? I’ve been in pursuit of that answer for most of my adult life. Every time I think I have all of the answers, they change the questions. Something that I’ve come to realize is this blog has to be first and foremost...
This is what happens when the council decides to fix something that isn’t broken. You end up making extra trips to the garbage dump to offload your rubbish because 3 weeks is a long time to wait for the next scheduled collection. Unless that was the plan all along to...
Sam Harris on the meaning of life What is the reality of your present moment? What Sam Harris does in this video is to get you to rethink the quality of your attention in the present moment so that when you get to the end of this finite life of...
I’ve had this thought about identity. We believe we know who we are, but then there is the ‘who’ we really are, which I gather is the point of meditation and spiritual practice – to discover who we really are. I often lack the patience to figure it out. That’s...
So Coolio passed away today. He was only 59 years old. That’s only 5 years older than me. My reaction to that is damn, I could go at any time, so I best live as though my days are numbered because they are. This is it. This is my life,...
Here’s something interesting to get your head around and it speaks to the idea of attachment. The degree to which you attach your identity to something is the degree to which you’ll suffer when your identity is out of alignment with what you’ve attached it to. For example, the degree...
I stumbled upon a few websites that if you are a nostalgic Generation Xer like me, you’ll love!! They are reminiscent of the weird and wonderful spaces that were spawned in places like Geocities and Livejournal. Here are the links I mention in the episode: NeocitiesStatus CafeDeadjournal Here’s my Status...
This is what I miss about the old Internet, individual flare, and creativity, like this ASCII comic from Michelle. You have to duck and dodge the algorithms and echo chambers if you want to find good stuff like this. I found this on Neocities. If you haven’t heard of Neocities,...
I needed some inspiration today. I haven’t been happy with my voice lately. There’s too much noise in my head and too many voices competing with each other for attention. It’s kind of like the shell game, my voice is the pea underneath one of the shells, and no matter...
I didn’t know you could use your WordPress blog to write Twitter threads or convert your existing blog posts into threads. I’ve been dabbling with threads recently, mostly using Hypefury or Typefully to compose them. I want to write more micro-essays and turn them into threads without overwhelming my Twitter...
This quote smacked me right between the eyes when I read it. “We judge others by their actions, be we judge ourselves by our intentions.” It’s a spin-off from a Steven Covey quote: “We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.” Here’s why it caught my attention....
You can do three things to reprogram your subconscious mind to deliver better results. Who’s doing the programming? Unfortunately, we don’t always take active control of programming our subconscious minds. We allow other people, social media, the press, books, TV, movies, and authority figures to do the programming for us....
Do you like a good daydream? I know I do. But here’s why daydreaming can be dangerous and why you should use your discretion when daydreaming.
I’m currently testing out H5P, a free web app that allows you to create interactive content. The app was created to give freelance e-learning designers like me, an open source and free alternative to the pricey commercial e-learning authoring tools. This is an interactive video I made with H5P. It’s...
We all know the map is not the territory. It’s not until you get on the ground and see the terrain with your own eyes that a way forward can be planned in accordance with the sensory details around you at the time of departure. In this episode, I share...
Ok, I finally pushed publish on my new learning and development project. It’s a personal development and self-improvement program delivered in the form of a newsletter. Each issue consists of a microlearning module and links to additional resources to support the selected topic. each week, the microlearning module will cover...
One of my go-to books for morning reflection is Wu Hsin’s book: Aphorisms for Thirsty Fish: The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin. In this episode, I share a few nuggets of wisdom from the book, plus my commentary on the passages and what they mean to me. Here’s the video version...
The Barefoot Doctor aka Stephen Russell was a practitioner and teacher of Taoism, its medicine, philosophy, meditation practices, and martial arts and manifesting system, or wu wei. I first came across his work in a small bookshop tucked away in the Scottish Highlands. It was his informal, wayward writing style and approach...
