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I Love Executing Well-Organized Plans

Posted on November 25, 2019

For me, today’s theme has been “organization.” Specifically, getting organized in the following ways: Shopping: My wife and I did our bi-monthly shopping trip, which today also included several more stops than…

Blissing Out At the Cafe (Revisited)

Posted on November 23, 2019

Early this year I wrote about my enjoyment of spending time writing at the neighborhood cafe, which I characterized as blissing out. Indeed, that’s how it felt. The experience could be so…

Day 330: Off to see Abraham!

Posted on June 29, 2019

Today is the first day in a week and a half when I haven’t been posting another episode of “Charlie’s Dog,” this short story I have found myself working on each day….

Day 302: Recency Bias and the Silliness of Video Game Baseball Predictions

Posted on June 1, 2019

So I have this new baseball game I’ve been playing the last few weeks on my phone. Today, I was at the cafe playing the game as a break from writing, when…

Day 284: We’re going to see Abraham-Hicks!

Posted on May 14, 2019

Yep. It’s official. My wife and I bought tickets to see Abraham-Hicks live in June in San Francisco 🙂 If you have ready my posts for awhile, you have no doubt seen…

Day 283: A Good Fact-Finding Mission

Posted on May 13, 2019

So I didn’t make it in to the comedy troupe I tried out for. Yes, I’m bummed. Writing about it, I realized I was a bit sad, but I also felt a…

Day 262: Birthday Manifesting Crash Course at the DMV

Posted on April 22, 2019

(photo credits: Charr Crail) So today is my birthday. Despite the odd smattering of mundane events that occurred, today has been rather cool. Allow me to elaborate: My wife and I got…

Day 225: A little goes a long way for me

Posted on March 16, 2019

I have written a few times about being highly sensitive. I have learned to honor this quality in my daily life. For example, although I consider myself very people- and performance-oriented (after…

Day 193: Own your awesomeness!

Posted on February 12, 2019

Just this morning dropped off a big red bin full of old papers and notebooks for shredding. Some of these papers went back decades all the way to grade school. Some were…

Day 187: What do you do to get into a positive state?

Posted on February 6, 2019

What do you do to get into a positive state? What activities get you there and keep you there? Here are some of the activities that seem to work best for me:…

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