I know you've all experienced this: when there's just too much stuff to do and it seems like you can't do it all RIGHT NOW! like you want/need to because there's just not enough time in the day, and running from task to task. … [Read more...]
USE A TOASTER TO CREATE IDEAS
My friend Dempsey is a sort of genius, able to revive or build anything that had a life at one time. The toaster, still working, somehow reminds me of the "Tibetan Book of the Dead", going through various phases of death before it's nothing but parts lying around. Ideas follow the reverse path, starting with a few whisps of a fragrance, and like DNA, combining with other vague … [Read more...]
I’M A COMPETITION JUNKIE
Finally came down to earth about all that. All I ever think about is getting better; at ANYTHING, it doesn't matter what. Some people are adrenaline junkies, living on the edge of total destruction. I'm a fear junkie. I have to get better and better at it or I'll fall behind. I can't just let it go. It's a survival thing. Fear of failure. And then I realized that … [Read more...]
Trust Your Gut!
I know, easy to say; sometimes hard to know where your "signals" are really originating. Intuition guided our predecessors' survival long, long ago: fight or flight, am I going to be eaten or will it provide me a meal, big winter or easy hunting? Today's situation is similar but we can tune into different signals that are drowning in modern background noise of a thousand … [Read more...]
Your Unlimited Potential
I was filling out a questionnaire the other day for a specialized training program where I work and realized that I've become a much larger person than I thought.....not in the waistline, but in the range of things I can do. That reassessment of "who I am" is triggered, oh, every five or six years, when I begin to wonder what I'm going to do for income in the unknown future. … [Read more...]
My Life Broke: RickRolled.
Don't increase random badness by bad choices; the random stuff is plenty. I'll get to that at the end. That's a car battery. Simple as that. It could've been anything.....alarm clock, broken water heater, drain clogged, or something 'serious' like appendix rupture or more serious like your life partner announcing she's [he's] leaving. … [Read more...]
Use It Or Lose It
I know it's impossible to use everything all the time while under the watchful eye of The Gatekeeper of Capabilities. That guy that determines whether we're in shape to do number crunching, marketing, or running is always pulling out one of our capabilities if we ignore it. … [Read more...]
Keep the Feel-Good-Meter Needle in the Red
Sometimes I think all I need is another achievement. Not that I've PLANNED that, but my "Feel-Good-Meter" gets a kick every time a new goal, no matter how small, is finished. At a seminar one time, the speaker said "You can't move on until the unfinished stuff is completed." Very cool, and sometimes very hard to define. How many unfinished things? Which ones? The big … [Read more...]
A Very Short History
Everyone should have the confidence to know that they can accomplish whatever it is they want to do. I had a bunch of confidence to just go ahead and do whatever.....some things I was mediocre or terrible at doing, but other things turned out OK: Hot Rodder, Electrical Engineer, NASA Research Scientist, Biophysics/Nuclear Physics/Public Health, Theatre Arts /Actor, TV Station … [Read more...]
Tango is a Four Letter Word
At least, Tango WAS a four letter word at times; the way some people viewed rock and roll in the 50s. I like moving to Argentine or Uruguayan tango; bodies pressed closely together, like in Buenos Aires when it was reborn in the 40s and 50s. But the roots seem to come out of the pain and suffering of the oppressed and poor of some of the countries in South America; the music … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Next Page »