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Entrepreneurship, Self Improvement, Success Strategies

If you’re not making progress on your side project, get a full time job.

0 Comments 14 May 2012

When I was in college, I had to take a leadership and management class for NROTC. One of our instructors liked to say “If you want something done, give it to a busy person.” I didn’t really agree with him then, but I’m starting to. Since I started working full time over the past few [...]

Self Improvement, Success Strategies, Uncategorized

How to overcome inertia for creative and non-creative tasks

1 Comment 02 May 2012

I’m a procrastinator. Most people are. Actually, procrastination may be an evolutionary trait. The hardest part for me is getting started on a task. Once I start I get into a rhythm and make significant progress. The amount of inertia I need to overcome to get started is significant though. This is why I’ve been trying [...]

Courage

Should Courage Always Be Punished?

2 Comments 26 April 2012

Should courage always be punished? Maybe this is the wrong question. Maybe the question is “is it courage if there is no personal risk involved?” Let’s look at physical courage. Physical courage is found in situations where a person will go to great lengths to attain a noble goal while taking on a significant risk [...]

Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Success Strategies

A Generation-Y Entrepreneur on being lost, living out of your car, work-life balance, and God

1 Comment 18 April 2012

I recently interviewed Jeff Widman, the founder of PageLever. PageLever is a funded, Y-Combinator start-up that specializes in Facebook Analytics and Facebook Insights. I wanted to interview him because he is 2009 college graduate like myself, seems to be more successful than most of our peers, and because I thought he’d have excellent insights and [...]

Career, Networking, Self Improvement, Success Strategies

The Advantages of Being an Outsider

0 Comments 06 April 2012

Being an outsider has some advantages. I’ve been an outsider a few times. I was an outsider while I was in the Navy, when I went to teach English in Cairo, and I’m currently an outsider as a contractor for a defense company. I wrote a blog post about not being a joiner. Since I [...]

Self Improvement, Success Strategies

3 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Take on another Side Project

0 Comments 04 April 2012

I have a problem. I have lots of ideas and the means to start many of them. Unfortunately, I can’t do all of them. I’ve decided to focus on TrekDek as my primary side project. I also have this blog as a side project. I’ve established a habit where I will work one of these [...]

Happiness, Introverts, Success Strategies

How to enjoy loud bars and live music as an introvert

0 Comments 28 March 2012

If you’re an introvert like me, you probably don’t enjoy going to loud bars or bars with live music. Here are the reasons I don’t like them most of the time: 1. It’s too loud. I can’t hear what anyone says nor can they hear me. It’s not great for conversations. 2. I can never [...]

Self Improvement, Success Strategies

The Golden Rule of Habit Change

0 Comments 26 March 2012

Your environment is just a collection of cues. These cues trigger habits that are positive, negative, or neutral. One way to get results is to change your environment, which is really just changing or avoiding the set of cues you respond to on a daily basis. This does not get rid of your old habits. [...]

Introverts, Self Improvement

Thoughts on not being a “joiner” based on personal experience

2 Comments 20 March 2012

I’m not a joiner. I’m rarely enthusiastic about joining a team or organization of any kind. I get excited about ideas and visions for the future, but when other people try to persuade me that their vision is correct and I should get on board, I’m highly resistant. This is not true when someone tries [...]

Happiness

How to Have a Pleasant Day

0 Comments 13 March 2012

Last Sunday and I had an extremely pleasant day. Here’s what I did: 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Woke up, showered, got dressed 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Had multiple cups of coffee, did the web surfing thing, etc 11:30 AM – 3:30 PM: Took an “intro to rock climbing” class, climbed a bit with [...]

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