Inspiration Through Information
As I wrote in Setting Minimum Daily Requirements to Relieve Productivity Stress, I have been setting daily minimum requirements for myself. I have been making a pact with myself that when I accomplish what is on my minimum daily requirements (MDR) list I will accept that I have accomplished enough for that day, at least […]
I have been writing fiction lately. Before I started writing nonfiction I had an interest in creating fiction, but for some unknown reason that interest waned and only nonfiction had an appeal. That has evidently changed. I now seem compelled to write both and we will see how that goes. Anyway, here is a short […]
My friends and followers know that I am actively engaged in the upcoming November election. I am often asked what specific actions I am taking and what organizations working on the election I support. So, I decided to write an article on Medium about it, Here is what I am doing to save our country […]
For a long time, many of my fellow writer friends have strongly encouraged me to start a Patreon account. I have finally done so. It is not a big secret that writers usually do not make a lot of money from their writing. Even with a couple of successful books to my name and a […]
I have concluded that there is no goal attainment system that always works. None of them. You must adapt weekly, daily, hourly to the factors at hand and repeatedly decide in the moment what direction or action you’re going to take. Only being in the present moment and making all the best micro decisions will […]
I’ve been writing elsewhere a lot and not keeping up with this blog, but amid the COVID-19 crisis perhaps this is a good time to start posting here again. One of the things I’ve started to do to maintain my sanity and physical fitness is to do yoga every day as I’m sheltered in place […]
I agree with this The Three Pillars of Happiness article by Adrian Drew. For #1, I think our cultural obsession with romance leads to bad relationships and a narrowed social support network because we rely too much on partnering to fulfill our lives. In Self-Determination Theory, to which I look to often for guidance, friendships […]
The topic of education and the details of learning itself are near and dear to me. Learning theory. Education systems. Self-education strategies. Learning resources. Anything having to do with how we best learn and thereby improve ourselves and hopefully the world around us always lures me in and proves to be captivating. When I wrote […]
One of the most useful life hacks I’ve learned or stumbled upon (I can’t really recall the origin) is to write things down, and do so immediately. Read more in my Life Hack: Write It Down Medium article.
Someone forwarded me a link to this video in which Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, speaks to a small audience about why the future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind. That kind of mind Pink describes as “right-brain” thinkers […]