So, you know my life mission, right? My life mission of the moment, that is. I don’t think I have enough hubris, right now, to think that this life mission will always be my life mission. (Though honestly, I can only imagine it being similar.) It’s something like this: To stay engaged. To fill my [...]
Tagged as: "The Idea Catalyst Kit", change, growth, happiness, Ideaschema
A number of weeks before I turned twenty-eight I began to experience a kind of urgency. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that twenty-eight is only two years from thirty, or that twenty-seven is fairly close to twenty-five but twenty-eight is not. I began to feel that something wasn’t getting done quickly [...]
Tagged as: age, anger, change, crisis, culture, frustration, growth, laziness, society, time, urgency
I used to feel obliged to let people know how bad I did in school. I never did my homework; I wrote stories and drew pictures through my classes, as much and as often as I could get away with it (and sometimes when I couldn’t). I read paperbacks and comic books—it’s harder for the [...]
Tagged as: change, college, education, growth, homework, learning, school
You know, I didn’t expect Wanted to be such a good movie. I thought it would be fun, but I didn’t expect it to feel so purposeful for me. I don’t know if you’ll see the same things I did, but for me it was very clear. What do you do when the universe speaks [...]
Tagged as: ability, change, evolution, growth, insanity, potential, purpose, superheroes
Embarrassment. Fear. Dread. Uh oh. What will happen if they find out? You know, I used to feel this way all the time. I used to feel this way about every little thing under the sun. And you know what? I still feel this way a lot. But now I remember what it is, and [...]
Tagged as: confrontation, courage, fear, growth, sexuality
This is a meme that bears repeating. Mac users close to my heart: Substitute Ctrl-Cmd-Power or hold down that power button—well, don’t actually; I’m just trying to exercise a little consideration. Anyway, you have to admit that Ctrl+Alt+Delete has a sort of ubiquitous grace… Bob Poole made a great post yesterday about rebooting yourself. What [...]
Tagged as: Bob Poole, decision-making, fear, fearlessness, growth, strengths
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