Category: Miscellaneous
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Your Life is Going to Transform
Today is the day that your life will change for the better. The primary reason for failure is unnecessary struggling. Our whole goal achievement culture is backwards. Science has shown time and time again that calm happy people have the optimum state of mind to succeed. First happiness then success. Your transformation begins with how…
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Lies We Believe
This video popped up on my YouTube feed today. I normally don’t just post a video without commentary, but I think this video is worth a watch. I have spent a lot of time thinking about lies that are widely believed, and I mostly agree with the video host.
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Balance of Being and Doing
Interest in Mindfulness and other types of meditation has grown significantly, and for good reason. With so many people entering into meditation practices, one of the common struggles is balancing being and doing. People notice that if you quiet your mind and don’t do anything, you can quickly begin to experience a sense of…
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See the World Bigger
“When we try to make ourselves bigger in the eyes of the world, we shrink the size of our world. When we expand our knowledge of the world around us, we make the world bigger.”
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Toxic Self Help
If you are a regular consumer of self help content, I would encourage you to watch James Jani’s “Toxic Self Help” video at the end of this post. Well written self help books can make us feel good, and give us a dopamine boost. We momentarily feel better. We set out to change our lives,…
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Seeing Knowledge Clearly
When I was in my mid-thirties I remember a trip to the grocery store with my wife Diane, who would occasionally read the fine print on the labels. I noticed that she was holding the labels further from her eyes in order to see them clearly. I teasingly asked if she needed gadget arms to…
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Goodbye Twitter
I decided this evening to delete my Twitter account. Our world is so polarized and Twitter is particularly polarized. I believe that in large part, it is people trying to have meaningful communication in so few words. I had a respectful back and forth on Twitter earlier this afternoon over a polarizing topic. I found…
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Are You Interested in becoming a data professional ? Data is the new oil.
As many of you know I am a part time remote life coach, but I am also a full-time Business Intelligence Specialist / Data Engineer. On a typical week for the last couple years, I have had at least one or two recruiters contact me to interview for data jobs. That activity seems to be…
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A Dysfunctional Alarm Clock
Originally posted on Your Remote Life Coach: This post will bring awareness to unnecessary alarms in your life. You can easily minimize these alarms to improve the qualify of your life. Imagine you go to bed one night and your alarm clock goes off sporadically during the night. The first time it goes off you…