RandomlyHaphazard

It can be hard to distinguish what needs to be done consistently on a regular basis in order to achieve your goals from the what needs to be done on this particular day in order to achieve other goals.

Productivity For Productivity’s Sake

I just spent 5 hours adding photo publications (mostly from my student newspaper days) to my CV/resume. It certainly felt good while I was doing it, but now that I’m done there is a sort of hollow feeling in my chest.

Of course, I don’t know whether this effort will bear any fruit or not, so there really isn’t a point in worrying about it now, but I do have a bad habit of spending way too much…

I thought it. As if by instinct the excuse popped up in my head as I wondered why I’ve been too busy to do my QT and WaniKani the last few days.

And then my more recent practice of self-awareness kicked in. I could pinpoint the moments where I had squandered time and let projects I could have easily completed lapse into oblivion.

It most definitely hasn’t been the worst lapse in discipline. It…

There is an almost physical pain that comes with being self-aware and honest at the same time.

You catch yourself in the moment of weakness, but then you have to admit it. You can’t run away from the failure. You have to accept it into yourself, and only then can you release it.

Acknowledge, let go, then get back to work.

There is good work to be done and it isn’t going to wait while you ignore…

Everything’s Good When You’re Young

There seems to have been a proliferation of young, good-looking people getting tattoos all over their body. There are magazines, social media accounts, and even e-commerce sites specifically dedicated to photos of female models with tattoos.

The girls are hot, the boys are thirsty, and the money is flowing.

But what happens when these girls get older? The tattoos look great (most of the time) on…

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Don’t Be A Beta-Orbiter

It’s uncomfortably easy to become a beta-orbiter (women too).

This applies in love, friend groups, and professional networking as well.

We give, give, give hoping to one day be a special someone to that special somebody. Whether it’s a girl, the cool kid, or a very successful individual, we give up so much of ourselves to taste a morsel of what they have. To be in their presence is often enough…

In The Spirit Of

I love to argue. The mental stimulation I get from engaging in verbal combat has often been my high of choice.

Besides the obvious tax on personal relationships, this has had an unintended side-effect on my process for self-improvement. When I attempt to cut back on a vice in order to prioritize long-term goals, my brain automatically comes up with 10 reasons why it’s okay to let myself give in…

Sisyphus and Social Media

I’m sure most people know the story of Sisyphus to some degree. The story of a trickster king who was forced to roll a boulder up a hill only to have to roll back down every time.

What if the “daily grind” that was so essential for the survival and flourishing of the human species is so strongly ingrained in our evolutionary biology that when a cultural generation replaces the daily grind with…

Impulse Buying and Lies I Tell Myself

I have developed a very bad habit of purchasing online courses that I never complete. And spending A LOT of money in the process.

“I’ll make my money back with the skills I learn.”

“Knowledge is power.”

“There are worse things I could be spending money on.”

Too many excuses and not enough action.

I’ve been on the receiving end of a few phishing scams at this point. Yet for whatever reason, I continue to be innately hopeful of opportunities that seem to come my way out of nowhere.

I send my resume to anonymous businessesonline for jobs that seem too good to be true. These job boards obviously have an email obfuscating feature in place for a reason, but I naively bypass it for a potential…

Is The Universe Trying to Tell Me Something? | Baader-Meinhof and The Illusion of Frequency

If you have some connection to the Church, you might recognize that the season of Lent begins this week (tomorrow actually). A big part of Lent revolves around self-denial, whether that’s fasting or giving up a vice, and although the purpose is relational, the method is personal and behavioural: make the change within yourself.

I’m giving up watching Youtubefor Lent, so I’ve had more time to…

If Nothing Else I Sleep Earlier

I got a decent amount of what I set out to do today done, and as it gets later in the evening I am struggling to decide what to do with my time. There are many projects I would like to start, but I don’t think I am mentally capable of handling another thing on my plate on top of my client work at the moment.

Because I stopped watching Youtube videos, I don’t have an endless supply of content to…

I quit Youtube and Twitter at the beginning of the month. This also happens to line up nicely with the Lent season (lucky me).

Over the last 2 years, I’ve seen an erratic decline in my productivity. I surface from a stupor of Youtube videos to get a project done, only to fall back into the haze of visually stimulating content the moment I finish. I have had periods of self-improvement that I am…