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How’s Your Ride Through Life?

“When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” - Charles de Lint Do you know someone that seems to float through life? That everything seems to just happen for them? That they never really look stressed or like they’re trying too [...]

Strength From the Inside Out

“Real Tai Chi Chuan when looked at appears very simple. All of it,…however, is on the inside. The inside is trained so that it will affect the outside. Change occurs from the inside out.” Koh Ah Tee Ever gotten so overwhelmed with something on the inside that you feel frozen to do any sort of [...]

Productivity Tip: You’re gonna’ die.

My good friend and Conjunctured business partner, Dusty Reagan, just wrote a blog post that takes a pretty interesting (and realistic) perspective on productivity and achieving your life’s goals. Below is an excerpt and a link to his full post: Yes my friends, it’s true. You’re gonna’ die. This is my #1 productivity tip. Don’t [...]

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 [...]

Zen Anger Management

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”

damaging your adventurous spirit with a secure future

So many people live within un-happy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism , all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a [...]