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Penelope Trunk Makes Me Think Hard About What I’m Doing and Why
I’ve been reading Penelope Trunk’s mindfuck of a blog, and learning a few things in the process. Listening to this podcast, in which Penelope gives brutally blunt career advice to hapless blogger...
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5 Skills You Need To Thrive In Modernity (That Nobody Bothered To Teach You)
Like rats and pigeons, human beings are highly adaptable, flexible animals. As a species we inhabit some of the coldest and hottest parts of the planet, as well as all the temperate zones. Most of us...
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Getting To Know Yourself, Finally (Practices for Active Self Knowledge)
“Self-knowledge” has a pretentious ring to it, but it’s really a down-to-earth concept. Do you know yourself? Do you understand what makes you tick? Do you have some grip on what’s important to you?...
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A New Approach to Goal Setting (Introduction, and Reservations)
Over the last six months I’ve started using a new approach to goal-setting that I’ve found to be effective, enlivening, and motivating. I’m still ironing out the kinks in the system, but I’m far enough...
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How to Discover Your Life Purpose, Set a Primary Goal, and Stay On Track
In my last post I wrote about why I think setting goals is important. I addressed some of my own reservations regarding goal-setting. Is ambitious goal-setting selfish? Is it obnoxious and annoying to...
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Why Is It Important to Define Your Life Purpose?
It sounds intimidating, to define the purpose of your life. It also sounds unnecessary. Why not just live? Why not just enjoy life, and take each day as it comes? I don’t think there is any ultimate...
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Take the Seven Word Challenge (Why do you do what you do?)
Seven is the number. Why do you do what you do? For each activity area in your life, can you state the main objective of your efforts in seven words or fewer? Recently I did this exercise for myself,...
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2015 Year-End Review
Momu Mobile Studio Unit — one of many 2015 highlights. This weekend I completed my first personal year-end review. Since I don’t have an employer, it’s up to me to evaluate my own performance and look...
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Five Things That Made My Life 10% Better (Each)
Our new puppy, a possible #6? We’ll see! I used to make myself miserable in ways that turned out to be easily fixable. Sometimes it took ten, twenty years to see the obvious and do something about it....
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Activity Audit – Where Does All The Time Go?
At some point everything drops … December and January brought more freelance coding and database work than expected, but now I’m in a quiet stretch. It’s given me the opportunity to experiment with my...
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Plan Your Whole Life
Rock solid. It’s futile to plan your whole life. Nobody’s life goes according to plan. Q: How to make God laugh? A: Make a plan. But it’s also futile not to. I deleted a blog post yesterday. It was...
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