Use the Natural Inflection Points in Your Life to Redefine and Rebuild Your Self-Talk A couple of years into our marriage, both in our mid-20s, Chris and I started the discussion about kids. The result was that we decided the time was now. The logic went something like this: Someday we’d like to be where we want, when we want (This was the mid-90s…

You Have a Time Prioritization Problem — The light bulb went on in the middle of the night while I was staring bleary-eyed at the blue-light glow of my computer monitor. My wife and I had three young kids at home, and I was a programmer on a software development team that had a lot to do…

How to be Productively Unproductive Did my Wordle today. Meh…got it in 5. I’m usually a 4 or 5 guy, so par for the course. I’m a bit caught up in the craze, like many of you. I don’t cheat (what’s the point), nor share on social media (not that I wouldn’t, I just don’t…

By Midlife We’ve Built Up A Pile of Limiting Beliefs — But We Can Overcome The day was here, and I had been anticipating this day for the entire summer. My anticipation was equal parts excitement and dread. This was the first day of sixth grade — middle school. Once settled into our homerooms, our first official task as middle schoolers was finding and learning…

Will it prove you’re a badass or is it just pathetic? I distinctly remember the first time I noticed a tattoo. My mom was mortified. I don’t remember my exact age, but given where we lived, I was probably 6 or 7. At this time in my childhood, we lived in a blue-collar town-home neighborhood, complete with an interwoven network of…

Spoiler: It has nothing to do with diet, exercise, COVID, or vaccines You and I are fighting a deadly disease that needlessly infects many midlifers. If we let this disease take hold, the fatality rate is 100%. The patient, though, is not your body — it’s your enjoyment of midlife. Your happiness. The disease? Overseriousness. I had it bad for a while…

Revealing Truths About Creativity and Creatives — The Peter Jackson documentary compiled from the 1969 Beatles’ Get Back sessions is a masterclass in the process of creative work. Many people think good art and creative work is magic, requires some unique, innate talent, and comes out as a finished product due to some lightning bolt of inspiration. …

A fresh start. A new beginning. Wipe the slate clean. — If you’re anything like me, sometimes you need a reset. A fresh start brings possibilities and helps purge the baggage renting space in my mind. At the start of every year, I have good intentions of keeping up with everything. However, my reality is much messier, and throughout the year…

It Has Nothing to Do With Physical Health Spoiler Alert: This isn’t an article about the physical health benefits of intermittent fasting. This is an article about what the experiment taught me about mindset, habits, discipline, and the secret to making changes in your life. I like to perform little experiments on myself, specifically to get myself out…