The ability to make decisions is a quality often overlooked as a character trait or positive quality because we make them so often. It is one of the most important abilities of the human species, and yet all too easily taken for granted. Decisions determine your life and the life of others in very big…
Category Archives: Mindset
The Lost Art of Solitude
I need to qualify my last post a bit. I wrote that I didn’t know what to write and that’s why I haven’t posted in a while. What I meant to say there was that in the past year I have been bombarded with information. Much of it was new to me and much of…
You Don’t Need More Tips
Self help is starting to make me vomit. I went in DEEP into the self help industry for about 5 years. Like I’m talking crazy stuff like chakra cleansing, transcendence of ego, emotional freedom tapping and so forth. Really hippy yoga shizz. To an extent, I’m still into it and probably always will be because…
Respect Awesomeness, Not Your Elders
Tell me something. Why should you respect someone because they are old? That’s silly. Age doesn’t equate to wisdom. Age doesn’t equate to intelligence. Age doesn’t equate to ANYTHING. It is simply a count, a number, not worthy of any type of respect. I respect people who are respectful. I respect intelligence. I don’t care…
Conventional Wisdom is Many Times Very Wrong
I am pretty sure conventional wisdom has been passed on for the sole purpose of keeping people in check. You know, don’t walk into oncoming traffic, don’t shower with poison ivy, don’t poop where you eat, if a cheetah is going to eat you you probably shouldn’t let it, etc. But conventional wisdom is often…
Do you trust yourself? Ignore Everybody
I read this book a little while ago called “Ignore Everybody” by Hugh MacLeod and its stuck with me for a while. Kind of a catchy title, but all he’s saying is when you are doing something new and original, people won’t understand so you really can’t listen to any advice someone might have to…
