Personal Development with Gray Miller
This post is a day later than it should be (based on my entirely arbitrary publishing schedule, of course); however, I have a good excuse: I was… (wait for it) …engaged in practice. Ok, now raise your hand if you thought the word I was going to use was "busy". Nope! One of my overarching …
I welcome Natasha Bounds from Intention at Home to the Love Life Practice team, and this is the first of what I hope will be regular contributions! No, this is not a post about setting up time in your schedule or doing certain exercises for the next 30 days. It’s not that kind of challenge. …
“That’s really neat!” I said to the juggler as he strapped his GoPro camera to his head before taking part in a 25-person juggling pattern at the recent MadFest Juggling Festival. “Yeah, I guess,” he said with a grimace. “I’ve still got four thousand pictures from our trip to Norway to go through, though. Not …
As they say, there’s Freedom, Security, and Convenience – pick any two.” – David Geer I recently warned my friends that 2017 is going to be the year when I will be the guy asking inconvenient questions about their digital security. I’ll be asking you, too, and think about that statement above for a moment: …
Recently my partner and I were startled by a tweet, popularly reposted by several of our friends, that suggested that there needed to be an article along the lines of 18 Ways to Punch the Next Person Who Suggests I Try Mindfulness. While I was aware that there was some critique of businesses that were …
I try to keep up with my fellow personal development – oh, ok, I’ll call it what it is, “self-help” – bloggers, but there are just so many of them. In fact, the number one reason why I sometimes consider stopping what I do is because it feels like shouting into a maelstrom. Who can hear …
“I’ve figured out how I’m going to be a Jedi!” I told my parents. This would have been 1980 or thereabouts, and I was a tender young man just entering double-digits in terms of age. “I’ve created a whole exercise chart!” I don’t remember exactly the words, but I think “Han Solo Pushups” were in …
The facts are in: over and over, the smartest people around have proven that most of what we would love to attribute to skill in terms of success is much more likely to be a matter of luck combined with the circumstances we find ourselves in. That preference may in fact be part of our genetic makeup …