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Being overwhelmed can help you find clarity

I’ve been juggling a bunch of balls for quite some time now. Here’s a quote from a previous blog post I wrote in 2007: The Law of Gravity: as it applies to Entrepreneurialism: I compare all my businesses/projects to balls. I continuously throw up as many balls in the air as I can. Right now, all [...]

Thoughts are cold, but feelings are warm, alive and vital

Every once in a while I go on a reading rampage. In fact, for a three month stretch during my last year in college, I was consistently reading four to six books per week (non course work related) and regularly checked out 15-20 books at a time from the library. In fact, it was a [...]

Questioning our goal of “climbing to the top”

Clarity is feeling, not thinking

“Clarity is feeling, rather than thinking. The pureness of existing is feeling the sensation of life, not thinking about its intricacies.” I pulled this “note to self” from my journal, which is a realization I had on May 14, 2010. Frequently, I catch myself overthinking so many things. Truly experiencing the moment, though, comes only when [...]

your perfect average day in the future – my favorite visualizing technique ever

If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like? I learned an interesting visualization technique after watching a video taped speech from the uber internet marketer, Frank Kern. He shared what worked for him to help him realize his ideal future. His words were so impactful to me, that it [...]

Embracing Who You Are – a video message of self empowerment

Frustrations working abroad

Some comments of interest so far: time zone changes are frustrating. In the beginning I thought it would be helpful to have such a dramatic time change between Sydney and Austin, thinking that I’d be able to knock stuff out and have it show up in my colleague’s inboxes when they wake up. Not so easy. [...]

Inbox Zero at 7am

Two days in a row now that I’ve woken up super early. The first time it happened (4am) I thought it was a fluke because of a misaligned body clock, but when I woke up naturally this morning at 5am I realized, perhaps my body is so anxious to “get things done” that I’m jettisoning [...]

Workflow challenges and changes while traveling abroad

It’s 4:35AM in Australia and while everyone else (my sister, her roommate, & my girlfriend) are asleep, but my internal clock was aching me to ‘get the hell outta bed!” So here I am sipping tea and writing a blog post. Before my travels to Sydney I purchased the super tiny Asus eeePC 901 series. Yes, the [...]

Integrating GTD in my life…again.

For the past 1.5 weeks I’ve been adhering pretty closely to the GTD lifestyle. This was all kicked off by a mini gtd seminar I helped organize at Conjunctured. I asked Drew Arnold who I met after being featured in the Statesman a while back about mine and John Erik’s use of GTD in our [...]