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7 Key Tenets to an Experiential Life

A little background first: I wrote this while I was backpacking in Australia during December 2008 and January 2009.  I had been traveling alone for the last 2-3 weeks of my trip and had been forced to acclimate myself to a foreign world and culture. Although Australia is far from atypical America, there are some [...]

How to clear your mind with a twenty minute, written meditation

Every once in a while I reach a point where my mind is filled with so much stuff that I feel that I just can’t move. Stuck, like I’m walking around in quicksand, not really going anywhere. Out of all my techniques I’ve tried, the best one so far I’ve discovered is a twenty minute [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]