Shopping for energy
After learning about all of the things that were suggested for increasing energy as part of my July goal to create habits for energy, I thought I’d do a bit of shopping. While I admit that I am a bit skeptical about some of the things, I thought I’d try to keep an open mind […]
Googling for energy
Yesterday, I committed to working on habits to increase my energy for the month of July. Of course, the hope is that at least some of these habits stick around a lot longer and that this really improves things for me. While I started with just listing everything that I could think of that seemed […]
Habits for energy
A new month is upon us and this month, I have a new goal of doing as many things to increase my energy as possible. Inspiration I think my inspiration for this has come from a few different places. One was reading Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project, which I have mentioned a few times recently. […]
Question The Questions
The questions we ask in life are more important than many people ever realize. This is one of those things that I have learned in life, but that I tend to forget. The first time I started thinking about questions was when I was about 14. I remember seeing the saying ‘Question the Answers’ on […]
Accepting that I don’t like some things I wish I liked
Yesterday was the final day of a conference I went to in Chicago. Well, the conference was actually in Bloomingdale, west of Chicago. Since I was making the trip out here, I figured I’d book an extra night at a motel in downtown Chicago to explore and check out the area while I was here. […]
15 minute posts
Starting a blog has been a really great learning experience for me in a lot of ways. I enjoy the time I spend on it and love the process of picking photos, writing, editing, and coming up with poems for my posts. I love playing around with the formatting and getting it to look just […]
Balance is bull
We’ve all heard the term ‘balance’. It is always implied that this is something that we should be striving for, something that should be a way of life, perhaps even one of the ultimate goals of a modern life. A quick Google search for ‘work life balance’ brings up 24 million results, showing the prevalence […]
Designing cartoon Hoppy
I wanted to make a logo for the site that would feature a cute little cartoon version of Hoppy. OK, I think it would be cool to have a little cartoon of Hoppy, me and the van. Maybe I’ll get there down the road, but that was a little ambitious to start with. I got […]
The Miracle Morning
What is The Miracle Morning? The Miracle Morning refers both to the book by Hal Elrod and a morning routine that he suggests to start off the day in the best way possible. Now, if you’re anything like me, you might hear the word ‘morning’ and think this isn’t for you. It will be worth […]
Resources on minimalism
As I’ve been going through this process of reducing clutter, there are a few resources that have really resonated with me. Marie Kondo’s book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying up and The Minimalists have both become popular lately. Some things become popular because they’re really awesome things and I think both of those fall […]