Writing this is going to be an interesting exercise. I've told people before about my struggles with living nomadically, and the responses from people who live this way usually fall into one of two camps: Some people say: "That's preposterous! You get to live in perpetual summer, experience different interesting cultures, and be your own …
How to Save Your Attention From the Social Media Vampire
This is a very odd post for me to write. On one hand as an entrepreneur and marketer, advertising on Facebook is potentially one of the most lucrative and targeted methods of getting your message in front of the people who could most benefit from your product, and by extension are most likely to buy …
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Having Spent 10 Days in Silence…It’s Overrated, IMO
This took longer to do than I thought. It didn't really, but the procrastination is strong in this one. I definitely didn't have a legitimate reason for putting it off, that's for sure. But I have been lamenting the lack of creative outlets in my life, and my creative brain was working at 110% coming …
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Diet (re)Iterated
As Brendon Burchard says, "common sense does not always equal common practice". The things we claim are obvious, or appear obvious to us, don't always lead to taking the corresponding best action. Case in point, I know a great deal about nutrition and what constitutes a healthy diet. I have a maxim that I like …
What Drives a Man to Spend 10 Days in Silence
There's a quote I've heard repeated many times, that perfectly sums up my reasons for choosing to spend 10 days sitting in silence with a bunch of monks in Thailand. It's by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, who wrote "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Like …
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