Like an airplane meal that doesn’t taste like plastic, my trip to the Philippines was unexpected, enjoyable, and hotter than it should’ve been. It was spontaneous; I booked my flight just two days ahead. A good friend of mine, Kim, had invited me out to the island of Negros for…
Posts published in August 2019
Tim Ferris said it best, I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish… It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found. The “cost-effective therapy” Mr. Ferris mentions isn’t hyperbole — we can act as our own psychologist…
How habits take care of us when we fail to do so. Habits constitute our lives. Good habits form the staircase we climb towards achievement. Bad habits form the cliff we fall from into unrest and chaos. Each day, we walk ourselves through different habits and routines. Some of our…
It’s easy to measure our level of success by arranging our milestones in rank order. A job promotion here, a half-marathon there, maybe a new record for sales or articles published in a month. With our most impressive highlights, we map out a picturesque mosaic. While these are necessary to…