I’ve long struggled with trying to find meaning and purpose in my life. Why am I here? What’s most important? What should I be striving for? During the religious times, add “what does God want me to do?”
Category: Managing your Life
How to rock 2011
After the holidays, returning to work and all the ordinary routines can feel a year’s life force is sucked away every morning you walk in the office door. That feeling sucks, but it can be channeled into a good opportunity to re-evaluate your life.
The annual Christmas misanthropy and how to deal
The Christmas season is a unique blend of guilt trips, memories (happy and sad), pressure, and false obligation. Here’s how to deal.
Why it’s so hard to get started
If you try a lot of things, expecting some to fail, you maximize your chances of success and take the scariness out of starting.
How to do something big
Is there something you’ve always wanted to do? Something grand and ambitions? Maybe you’ve always wanted to write a book, or build an airplane, or hike the Appalachian Trail. It’s huge, life-changing even, and you’ve known for a long time that you want to do it, but you haven’t done it. Here’s how to change that.
The secret to a more interesting life
Amelia Earhart said “When a great adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it.” And then Chris Guillebeau quoted her. When two of my heroes speak, I definitely take notice. Adventure is important and too often neglected in our lives. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut or even just […]
Get rid of clutter, lose weight, improve relationships: Surprising lessons from car manufacturing
What does car manufacturing have to do with relationships? Perspective. If you feel a need to control every step to make everything go right, that’s a hindrance to life, peace, and, surprisingly, manufacturing. Needing to control also causes the need to hoard. If you need parts for your assembly line […]
The #1 stumbling block for smart people (and how everyone can avoid it)
A lot of people think intelligence, or innate talent, is responsible for success. It seems to make sense, right? But actually, that’s not quite true. It’s the people who keep growing that come up with the best ideas and are willing to take the risk of trying something new. There […]
The Happy Halloween Guide to having a sane Christmas
They’re at it already: it’s Halloween, sunny and 75 where I am, and this morning my newspaper was full of Christmas ads. I’m all in favor of the spirit of Christmas. Peace on earth, goodwill to man—bring it on, the more the better! But we all know that’s not the […]
How to ditch your worst excuse and start getting things done
Do you have a hard time getting things done, or even started? Do you give yourself a lot of excuses for why? I do. It’s come to my attention that I have a lot of excuses for why I don’t/ won’t/ didn’t get something done, and they all come down […]
Fighting The "Perfection" Disease
Way too many people are so busy being perfect-on-the-outside plastic shell people, we’re afraid to face the realities of our lives, let alone admit them to others. Here’s the thing: if you never let people see the real you, you can never have a deep relationship with anyone.
Forget your to-do list; start a to-quit list!
Here’s an idea that may sound crazy and impossible: go through your to-do list and cross out everything you hate.