If you have to force yourself to focus on a project and it feels like you’re swimming against the current in order to make any progress, perhaps you need to set it aside for a little bit and see where the flow wants to take you. Doing important work is challenging enough without fighting against […]
My friend Karan has been on vacation and spending a lot of time sitting on a beach in some southern resort area. She’d been posting photos of the ocean and the typical beach resort images, but today she captured one that is a visual philosophy lesson. Take a look at the featured image of this […]
After a rainstorm drops sheets of water from the heavens and a little time is given for the H2O to recede, there are always little puddles of water that remain. Small amounts of water that have collected into natural basins of earth and stone and greenery. These small pools of water are interesting individual remnants […]
I was trying a new recipe for homemade mac-and-cheese the other night, and a large part of the time spent preparing the meal was simply waiting for a large pot of water to boil. I could get every other aspect of the meal done, but I couldn’t fully complete the project until that one element […]
Every once in a while you can knock it out of the park on your first time at bat, on your first swing, on the first pitch (but those results are not typical). And even if the magical moment happens, it’s likely you were prepared to succeed because you had a lot of practice at-bats, […]
Everyone is busy these days (somethings never change), but it’s when you’re at your busiest that you’re in most need of a break. If you don’t have time for a break, how will you have time for a breakdown? Let me break it down for you You can’t run a car engine for an unlimited […]
My website went offline for a couple hours yesterday, and after consulting with the people who have my back when this sort of thing happens, they determined that the error came about because I was dangerously close to maxing out the space on my hosting account. I thought “Well, when you’ve been blogging for more […]