An Invitation to Madness
The invitation. I invite you to turn off your device for a little while this week. To leave it at home when you leave the house. To step out of its rapturous glow, and out…
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Make Better Goals
Over the past few weeks, the topic of goals and motivation have been the mainstay of a lot of my conversations. These are topics that have been kicked around for about as long as humans…
A Day on the Titanic
The biggest issue with the Titanic was that the collective belief held that it couldn’t sink. It was heralded as ‘An Unsinkable Ship’, and this narrative was so deeply believed that the attempts to evacuate…
Bored and Lonely
The average smartphone owner unlocks their phone 180 times a day, and to be honest, I am often worse. That works out to being about once every six minutes. For me, this starts within a…
You Know They Have You
You know that they have you, when the first thing that comes to mind when contemplating an adventure or an activity, is what you should buy. Let me know if this sounds familiar: This morning…
Disconnected: Part 2
This is technically the third article in a discussion I have been having about why we are busy, and how we fill our time. The first article is ‘Why So Busy‘, the second was “Disconnected:…
Disconnected
There is a tactile sensation of disconnection that comes with a phone for me. This could be a singular experience, perhaps a story I carry with me is set aside when the phone gets turned…
Why So Busy?
Being busy as a badge of honor is something we have collectively normalized. The claim that we are ‘too busy’ to do something is one of the most common refutations of almost anything that could…
Permission to Care
This month we started a challenge at the gym. Initially it was just a way to get a number of other people involved in a project I wanted to work on. Yet, it has grown…
DNF
A few weeks ago I DNFd in a race for the first time in my life. It was, for me, the best possible outcome. I sent the following to a friend afterwards: “It…