Archive for 2009

How can I track my daily advancement towards my goals? I want to prove to myself (and the world) that I am moving closer to a goal by actively tracking my progress and also showing that I am applying whatever tools and skills I need to on a regular and consistent basis. What simple ways…

Thrifty people save money. Thrifty people put a little by on a regular basis to give the next generation an inheritance. The spendthrift wastes the previous generation’s thriftiness. It is the small minority of thrifty people, the doers of the world, these are the people that build the cities, that make the discoveries, that fashion…

Have you ever noticed that when people move their homes they fall in to some really bad habits that are completely predictable? Because of the disruption to their life and familiar surroundings, not to mention the stress of actually moving, people leave a lot of packing up of unnecessary household items until the very last…

The success that we experience in our lives, through school, through work, through our family and home, through the financial and ancillary rewards we receive, all of these successes are achieved through our own efforts and our own efforts alone. Very little in the way of tools and skills is given to us, by our…

We are taught, from a very early age, that failure is undesirable. We are taught in school that there is only ever one correct answer. We are taught that there is only ever one way of doing something. We are not taught to learn, but to remember. We are not taught how to figure things…

The oddest experience for me is discussing different types of bottled water with friends as though the individual types of water were different flavours of soft drink. I’ve seen the episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit! With the couple in the restaurant buying fancy bottles of water from their “water sommelier” and swearing blind they…

Six years ago, in 2003, I made the conscious decision to remove all soda and soft drinks from my diet. I had already drastically reduced my dependence on caffeinated soft drinks many months earlier but they were still a significant part of my diet. When making the switch from soda I needed to find a…

What’s the origin of the eight to ten glasses of water a day rule? Who says you need to drink this much water a day to stay hydrated? The average human body evaporates water through breathing and from sweat on the skin and the total amount expulsed in this way is a little less than…

Several weeks ago I took the plunge to buy my first ever juicer. I had been thinking of purchasing a juicer for a while, but a juicer to me was one of those kitchen appliances that other people had and rarely used. I love freshly squeezed juices but I’m a bit of a traditionalist, I…

Around early 2002, just a few months after deciding to start my own video game development company I also decided that I would live more consciously. This meant going beyond my own limits of personal development and moving in to territory that I did not necessarily feel comfortable with. I wanted to consciously move myself…

The problem with people trying to shame you in to submission is that the person attempting to do the shaming gets very annoyed when it doesn’t work on you.

You are told you are free by society so often, that you are unable to see the chains that bind you.

There is always more than one way to skin a cat. There is always more than one path to the top of the mountain. Whenever you find yourself blocked, find a different route. Whenever your way forward is unclear, pick any way that moves you forward. The lesson to be learned here is that no…

Always do your best work. Even if it goes uncredited. And if your work is going uncredited all the time, quickly find somewhere else to do your best work.