There’s a conflict that rages every morning the moment I first drift into waking consciousness. It first manifests by my social media (aka the Gravy Hose) craving, when I wonder What have I missed in the last seven hours? My hand reaches almost automatically towards the bedside table – where my phone isn’t. No, my …
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how to be a skilled creator
This is not original. Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go: this is replicative content. I read a nifty blog article about “How the Internet, Dopamine, and Your Brain are Working Together to Screw Your Potential“, and it inspired the content in this post. But that’s ok. There Are Two Kinds of Creation… Well, ok, actually …
Dealing With Financial Stress By Learning to Love Money
Tough Love I hate money. Right about now, my financial coach (and maybe my therapist) are perhaps grimacing as I write that, with exhortations of “Don’t give the negative thoughts power!” and such coming to mind. And I try, I do. The biggest project I have right now is a massive lifehack: re-configuring my relationship …
Love. Life. Practice. Rinse, repeat as needed
Writing is. “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” — André Gide It started many months ago, in a laundromat in Amsterdam of all places. My friend Erik said to me “Gray, you are traveling all over, talking with so many …
evaluate before you practice
Time Tips from XKCD: I’ve gotta be honest: I don’t know enough math to really understand this comic ( though I appreciate hearing about it from Karl). I believe the point, though, is that the first step in productivity is to make sure that whatever process you’re putting into place is really necessary. The …
What is the Motivation for Your Practice?
The Maze or the Cheese? I enjoyed relaxing yesterday morning with a TED Talk by Dan Ariely about the motivation for work. Much as Daniel Pink talked about in his book Drive, it turns out the old Skinnerian behavior models don’t work so well in the knowledge economy. People don’t seem to want to work just for pay, …
Habits: Prioritize for Change
Whoa There, Tiger “But Gray, I thought you were going to practice the habit of posting pictures of everything you eat, in order to help follow along with the 4-Hour Body Slow-Carb diet?!? I signed up to follow you on twitter and everything – even liked your Facebook page! How could you let me down …
Quantify This
While reading the blog of the king of lifehacking, Tim Ferriss, I came across a phrase that hadn’t really registered with my conscious mind yet. I’ve been aware of the phenomenon, and of the movement, and even been a part of it here and there. This blog, really, could count as an incarnation of this …
Fast Times
I’d like to invite you to live fast this week. “Whoo hoo!” you say. “About time we got some good partying goin’ on!” And in fact, there are going to be a lot of parties this week. In the U.S.A. it’s Thanksgiving weekend, a time when we putatively give thanks for the bounty of our …