There is a difference between breaking rules and breaking the law. Breaking the law is breaking a set of rules that lead to an enforced social consequence. The rules that I’m talking about however, are the rules that we create for ourselves throughout life. An example out be to say “bless you” when someone sneezes […]
Habits & Lifestyle Design
Top Five Ways to be Effective
The top five ways to be effective are all synergistic to each other. Meaning you can’t achieve one without the other. If you lack in one area, there is a good chance the rest of the deck will crumble. Key Summary Time Management Social Butterfly Simplicity Resource Management Sharpening the Saw Top Five Ways to […]
Sharpen the Saw – Learn to Stay on Top
“Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have–you. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. – Stephen Covey The idea to sharpen the saw or blade comes from the analogy that a blade that is consistently sharpened will never get […]
The Perfect Human Diet
“In Search of the Perfect Human Diet” was a very well put together documentary. The focus is primarily on the history of nutrition and ancient human diets. The narrator and producer, C.J. Hunt has a history of heart problems that limited his ability to do any strenuous activities. This sent him on a journey to […]
Relativity – Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. -Thomas Cochrane The theory of relativity, put simply means that reality is subject to the eye of the beholder. How is this relevant to anything in our lives? Well, let’s use the glass being half full […]
Learn to Steal
If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research. Wilson Mizner We’ve been taught that stealing is a “bad” thing. Well, what is good and what is bad is subject to interpretation. Stealing material is illegal and unproductive in most cases, but what if we steal mentally? What I mean […]
Scarcity is the Root of all Evil
You cannot advocate decency and ethics. You must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal. ~ Jacque Fresco Let’s face it, the lack of something makes people want to take it is from other’s. Scarcity is literally the […]
Time Management
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey Time Management Time is one of the most important concepts ever. If we spend more time than we have to on something, we are wasting something irreplaceable. Time management is completely underrated. The small details are what count. For example, like […]
Learning to Let go of Closure
I’m not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There’s no closure. -Larry David Sometimes things happen and that’s all there is to it. You can’t make everyone happy and reading into a situation too much is usually a waste of time. Learning to let go of closure is probably […]
College is a Waste of Time
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” – Agatha Christie This sounds like blasphemy, but logic sways on how ineffective college and school really is. For starters, school is an institution that is has […]