In your zeal to try out new things, you may find that you often over-rotate on some of your hobbies. Personally, this meant that the basement was full of five-gallon glass jugs when I get into homebrewing (beers, wines, even sake). It also meant spending way too much time recompiling…
The most important thing you'll do today is deciding what you'll do today. When you're in the middle of work (usually hard work, the kind of work you don't really want to be doing), you may find yourself asking "why am I doing this?". That's when doubt begins to creep…
Life is not a passive activity - Plaque on display in author's living room Life is not something that happens to you, it's something you do. Put another pithy way, sometimes you have to make your own adventures. It's so easy to get trapped in the daily rut - same…
If you're not improving yourself or enjoying yourself, it's not a good use of your time - Someone on Reddit A lot of what you read, write, watch, etc will encourage you to always be on. Always doing something productive with your time, whether that's reading, exercising, studying, or any…
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.” General Jim Mattis - AKA Call Sign Chaos Read, read, read. I cannot emphasize this enough. Fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, technical manuals, I don't…
You have your vocation and you have your advocation - Author's mentor You need something that takes care of the bills. And you have something (at least I hope you have something) that you care about. A larger thing that matters to you. Very rarely, you can put the two…
You see this in a lot of business type books and resources. "Pay yourself first" usually means something like waiting until the last moment to pay back debt (or make a payment on one) or some other form of valuing yourself over others. But you can apply it to other…
Do you remember in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (the one with the time travel skit toward the end), where Harry and his friends are saved by some elusive figure who summons a patronus and saves them from certain doom? And then do you remember how, later on,…