Cartesian Anxiety

Judge people on their ability to be themselves, rather than their preferences, abilities, or features

When will I die?

It is this same morbid question that we ask ourselves on a regular basis. When will I die? What will I achieve before then? How will I be remembered?

On top of our own morbid internal voices which urge at us to lift ourselves from the mundane existence to the higher levels of spirituality, social status, and career. The seemingly recent explosion of the self improvement craze has us all, at one…

Travel into your past

One of the results of my obsession for time is the utter shock and, at times, the despair that I have little to no recollection of the detailed actions, thoughts, and feelings which have comprised up of my life. The brain is a processing powerhouse and is extremely good at retiring memories which it deems irrelevant to survival.

Over the last 10 or so years I have kept scrapbook of sorts, which…

Every path needs a leader

Those who do not lead themselves to their summit end up being lead through someone else’s journey.

The stranger and the dead

With a few hours at my disposal, I found myself dawdling lost in thought, at a cemetery.

Every so often I would stop at one of the stones, and where legible, read the inscription which would encapsulate the life of the person resting below. The words represented my relationship with the dearly departed, a relationship that would last for a few moments and would read “In loving memory of John…

“Sleep? Pfft who needs it?”

If I were a cartoon character, the above would be my catchphrase. That and “I’ll buy and extra soft coffin for when I die.”

Sleep has always been a constant no matter what happens it will always be there and is usually quite patient. For a former (or so I to think) master procrastinators, like myself, an extra 5 minutes could have just as easily become 5 hours. But inevitably once the Sandman…

The following is the fundamental idea which lead my change in focus over the last few years and is why I am writing to the aether.

Looking at the evolution of how mankind’s survival has developed over the ages is quite intriguing.

Survival of the fittest is how it all started. Every man/woman fending for themselves or clan: hunting and gathering. With farming, our ancestors have been able to…

It’s good to be back

I got caught up, caught up with a few months of constant change and growth and it feels great!

I got the direction that I prescribed myself in my last post and am on track following the big goals, but this time with more control and clarity. I’ve not been afraid to make the leaps of faith where necessary to put myself at the helm.

But more on all that later… :)

I wrote my previous post a few of weeks ago but felt uneasy posting it without answering some of the questions. So I set out on a journey to give myself all the time in the world to see how I would answer these questions.

So, I left my day job, rental…

Since I have started writing, the idea of time as a currency has really bothered me. Firstly, the majority of my life had taken up working for someone else. The second thing that has been bothering me is probably the most frustrating. If tomorrow I were…

I would highly recommend the Art of War by Sun Tzu to anyone as a self improvement piece. There is no doubt as to why this is highly regarded by many sales and business people wanting to gain the edge.

Although, the text was produced with the battle in…

Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) wrote “On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

As the years pass and the list of my accomplishments is exceeded by and dwarfed by what could have been, the search for more time has become increasingly desperate.

This is where my writing comes in: I am recording what is usually intangible streams of contemplation an effort to ultimately step out of the shadow of, and stand shoulder to shoulder with Me. By writing about time I hope to, bring the issue to front mind and actively change the dogma of time use and most importantly how to get more of it.

I mean, that’s what it all comes down to, right? More time. We all work harder to enrich those spaces of time in which we are free to fill with whatever makes us happy. That time may be; each night after work, the weekend, the annual holiday, the trip around the world, a happy retirement, etc. The problem with these spaces of time is that they are small and fleeting and our society has grown accustomed to working so much for so little freedom.