I’ve been going back through the musical archives lately, and if you’re in – or close to – my particular age bracket (or maybe younger, and I’ll explain why in a moment) the name of Rick Allen might just ping a memory. It might also be immediately recognizable. If you know, you know. You see, …
I’m not the biggest fan of my own voice. To clarify, I’m talking about hearing a recording of my voice being played back to me. I never sound on a recording, the way I think I sound when I’m just talking – which is kind of ridiculous because in both cases, it’s still me doing …
There are two words I want to talk about today: Activation Energy. Now this is pretty much what it says on the tin. Activation energy is the amount of energy needed to start a process. It can be a chemical reaction, if can be a car going from a standstill to moving, it can be …
Today, I’d like to talk about a couple of terms that have been on my mind lately, thanks to the guys at the High Performance Podcast. Passion and Purpose. A passion is something that you’re jazzed about. For me it’s Music, Stories, Nature, Photography, just to name a few. The thing about passions is that …
Let’s say I give you a line or two – just the seed of a story – and I ask three of you to come up with something. Hell, let’s not just suppose it, here’s something to work with: “Yes, Time-Travel isn’t something you’d normally find on an expense report, but hear me out.” You’re …
For those of you who may not know me, I love me a good list. I write them almost daily (I tend to take the weekends off). One day, recently, the thought came to me to ask myself the following question: “What is one thing that you can do today to bring you closer to …
Your mileage may vary, but if your area is anything like it is in my neck of the woods, walking across your front lawn, this time last week, felt and sounded like you were walking across a large piece of toast. Crunch, crunch, crunch. This morning, though, there was significantly less crunch. Everywhere I looked, …
Why did you do that? Why am I doing this? Why? Why? Why? It’s the most introspective of the “W’s” and, to my mind, one that gets the most overlooked. Why? Because. Be honest. I’ll bet it didn’t take any effort to jump between those two lines. You might even have seen that “Because” coming …
I tried something new today! I did, that’s why this post went live later than usual (You all buy that, right?). For those of you who are interested, it was a new breakfast recipe that allowed me to use the muffin-baking sheet that I got for x-mas. I won’t get into the details, suffice it …
I finished a story last week. Like proper finished a story, and turned it in. And then I moved onto the next project with nary a word. Primarily, this was because I had not one, but two other projects that I’d placed on hold to get this story done (Deadline shuffling). Secondarily, it was a …