Tag: life

  • Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Eighteen

    Do What You Love Find hard work you love doing. If I could offer my eighteen-year-old self some real career advice, I’d tell myself not to base my career choice on other people’s ideas, goals, and recommendations. I’d tell myself not to pick a major because it’s popular, or statistically creates graduates who make the…

  • OutsideOnline: Tim Ferriss’s Life Hacks | Mental Conditioning

    All credit to” Michael Roberts at OutsideOnline.com Original Article: Tim Ferris’s Life Hacks | Mental Conditioning | OutsideOnline.com Effective Incentives shame humiliation peer pressure financial loss Ultramarathoning Running ultramarathons… (isn’t) necessarily what the human body is designed to do. Ultra­marathoners are fit in the sense that they are well-adapted organisms for long-distance running. I’m going…

  • The Invitation – Oriah Mountain Dreamer

    It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dreams for…

  • Time To Get Rich

    There’s many unlikely ways to get rich but we want guaranteed success. Using simple language, how can I get rich? Getting a college education and a good job will never make you rich. I’m not channeling new age rich-is-love-not-money propaganda; I’m telling you how it is. Working for money will never carry you beyond the…

  • Doing What Feels Right

    Doing What Feels Right: Preface I’ve decided to take a novel new approach to living. This decision will effect the decisions I make every day that ultimately affect the course of my life. This decision will effect every thought that passes through my head in every waking minute. Let’s call this novel new approach to…

  • Nigel Marsh: How to Make Work-Life Balance Work

    Certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day to day basis with a young family. The reality of the society that we’re in is that there are thousansd and thousands and people of out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they working long hard hours at…