Unless you write it down. Get any piece of paper. Grab a pen. Now write down why you are here. Look at what you wrote. Now one of two things have happened at this point. You either wrote down your mission or you didn’t. If you did write something down, great! Ask yourself if what [...]
June 2021
This essay isn’t about race. It’s about the tried & true recipe for keeping your laundry sparkling white. My mother started me on laundry when I was old enough to not climb in the dryer. What age that was doesn’t matter. What matters is the laundry approach handed down to me I’m now handing down [...]
“Do it, review it, and improve it.” -J.D. Meier “Getting Results the Agile Way” If you improved 1% each day, after a year you would be 37x better off than you are today. That change over a day is barely noticeable. It takes very little effort to do improve that much. In a month, that [...]
The CDC reports that adults need 7 hours or more of sleep per night for optimal health. They also report that adults sleep 6.8 hours per day on average, which hasn’t changed much from Gallup polls in the 1990s and 2000s, but is down more than an hour from 1942. If you want to improve [...]
Break rules. Respect laws. When was the last time you broke a rule? What happened? For the record, it was an accident. The 2012 movie premiere of The Dark Knight Rises. I was having a great time with my friend. Laughing so hard at inside jokes, we breezed by the roped-off line for the 8 [...]