Are You More than Your Job?
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” -Benjamin Franklin What Do You Do? How do you answer that question? Do you immediately launch into an excited tale about your incredible...
View ArticleDeath Conquers All: Reconciling Ambition With Satisfaction
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger A Little Backstory I...
View ArticleDefeating the Six Specters of Life: Part 6- The Fear of Old Age
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few...
View ArticleEarly Retirement: “If You Fail to Plan, then You Plan to Fail”
“”By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”- Benjamin Franklin Let’s Talk Cash Although I haven’t focused a whole lot on money to this point, I do see personal finance as one of this blog’s...
View ArticleNew Category! 30 Day Challenge #1: Stop Drinking Soft-Drinks
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”- Mark Twain No Thank you Mayor Bloomberg, I can Make my Own Decisions I’m...
View ArticleDefeating the Six Specters of Life: Part 7- The Fear of Criticism
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to...
View Article10 Dumb Things People Spend Money On
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor...
View ArticleGet Back to Basics- Clean Your Room!
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics… am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise...
View ArticleDefeating the Six Specters of Life: Part 8- Wrapping Up the Series
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear… And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the...
View Article30 Day Challenge #2: Write In a Journal Every Day
“After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”- Jean Cocteau Yes it’s Time For Another Challenge! I have been thinking about what to do for this second challenge...
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