“This is your life, are you who you want to be?”
– Switchfoot, lyrics from This Is Your Life
Remember elementary school, when you were asked the very important question: What do you want to be when you grow up?
What was your answer? More importantly, has your answer changed?
In this article, I’ve listed 100 different […]
My girlfriend Cassie comes home every night frustrated by the amount of effort she puts into her job. As an Arts and Crafts Counselor at a nearby Boys and Girls Club, she invests considerable time outside of the workplace into preparing for each workday — shopping for new craft materials, preparing the materials the […]
Have you outgrown your innate yearning for discovering new things?
I know I did — because for a number of years I lived my life following a very strict and deliberate routine. During that time I rarely ever tried anything I hadn’t already done before.
Regrettably, I was letting my rigidness get the better of me […]
Yesterday I flew to New Jersey because I felt like surfing.
Some people think I’m crazy. They say “You can’t keep this up forever, you have to run out of money sometime.”
Personally, I believe there’s nothing wrong with my intentions. Why should I put my life on pause — because I’m not making much […]
I lived in New Jersey for the first 24 years of my life. In February ‘07, I moved to Michigan for a woman I fell in love with. Consequently, a ten hour drive separates me from everything and everyone familiar to me.
Or at least that’s how I used to feel.
In this article, I’ll […]
I was once sitting down to dinner with a group of people I was meeting for the first time. Directly across the table from me was a pretty young woman who, from what I could tell, was facing difficult decisions and needed advice.
Ever since I published my article: 10 Reasons It Doesn’t Pay To Be “The Computer Guy”, I’ve had occasional encounters with unauthorized republications of the article content.
That is, my original article has been copied and pasted into other forums and blogs without proper credit to me as the author (plagiarized).
At first, I was outraged. […]
Two people I know just lost their day jobs. One of them is in her late 20s, and the other is in her 50s. Regardless of their age difference, they are both recently unemployed, and are thus facing the same frightening question: What happens now?
According to my “playtime,” I spent 180 days of my life logged in to the Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game: “Final Fantasy XI.”
This enormous value was the result of having played FFXI an average of four hours every day over the course of three years.
In that time, I believed that I had collected […]
Reaching your goals takes time. Though you often wish they didn’t, they inevitably do.
It takes time to acknowledge your goals. It takes time to piece together a foundation for building up to your goals. It takes time before your goal-seeking efforts build momentum. It takes time before other people recognize your dedication and congratulate […]
