I have been on a few planes over the past week, and I am struck over and over by people’s relationships to their bags. The fees imposed in the US for checked bags have clearly shifted people towards carrying on more, so people no longer just carry a bag to entertain themselves or work on …
It is too easy, when making big change, to totally reject what you’ve built before. It is for me, at least. The astounding breadth of what I’m considering work-wise got me thinking that the work I built and the house I bought were all wrong. Too settled and unchallenging. Yeah. Because owning a nearly 100 …
The past few days I’ve drifted away from my path here. I had a cheeseburger for dinner. I was in an accident over the weekend, and I haven’t eaten more than half of anything in front of me since Saturday night. Until the cheeseburger. The whole accident thing left me with sensory overwhelm. Getting into …
I started to write “kill your television” but it bothered me. The wild uncomfortable coaching experience taught me that I don’t want to destroy anything violently. I want to poke it. [Dude. That is kindof literally true, beyond that little metaphor. I am a poker.] This is all preamble to say: yesterday I unplugged the …
I told a few of my fellow coaches at training this past weekend about my dream of this different life. It felt like they wouldn’t disapprove. Beautiful thing about coaches: they want people to be happy and fulfilled. They’ll support any way you choose to do that. In practice coaching, I committed to someone to …
Today’s small victory is payday. I’m making a commitment to shop for non-grocery items only at the end of pay cycles rather than at the beginning.