Change your scenery. Change your energy. If you’re feeling stuck go somewhere new. Get up. Move around. Breath deeply in and out. It’s such simple advice. But for some reason we stay stuck. Rooted in place doing nothing and indulging ourselves. Go to the woods. Go to a river. Ride a bike. Get up...
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Eat fast. Exercise fast. Do the dishes as quickly as possible. Driving over the speed limit. There are endless ways humans are obsessed with going fast. And a lot of times doing things quickly ends up badly. A tummy ache. A pulled hamstring. A broken plate. Or a speeding ticket. To what end? Most...
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Do one thing really well. Or two things crappily. Seems like an easy choice right? And yet we often choose to do two things not very well. Is it fomo? Stubbornness? Wouldn’t doing one thing really well feel better? I have a hard time with this. I want to do it all. But I...
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Kady’s grandfather once showed me how to prune roses. He was ruthless. He’d point at something and say “that’s just junk. Get rid of it.” We’d prune until the bush was a fraction of what it was. But low and behold the next year it would be full of roses. It might feel harsh...
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When I lived in DC I rowed at Potomac Boat Club. My favorite spot to row was behind Roosevelt Island. We usually didn’t do a lot of rowing back there since our group of scullers was quite large at times. But in the afternoons, which were primarily on my own it was my go...
Continue readingHaving Options
You’re going away for the weekend and want to bring a book. You have two on your nightstand you’ve been meaning to read. You bring both, just in case. You want to have options. Each time you go to read you can’t decide which one to choose. So you end up scrolling on your...
Continue readingWhy Are You Frustrated
Is there really some grave injustice going on or are you just angry you don’t get to do what you want to do? You have the option to get pissed or to adapt. Those are your options. Especially when you’ve got people depending on you. Does anger really do anything? What’s going to serve...
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Where you put your time and money matters. Do you invest in others, in making a shit ton of money, in buying expensive things, in your mental and physical health? The things we invest in define our lives. At the end of this weird ride we are all on what matters most? Tons of...
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The problem isn’t not knowing what to write. The problem is catching the ideas fast enough. Before they disappear into nothingness. Today I’ve found that quiet time with no distractions like my phone or kids or podcasts has allowed me to hone in enough to capture an idea. Think about it. We have thousands...
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You’ve got to write it to right it. No two ways about it. You’re either doing the work or you’re not. No time like right now....
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