Cut away what you do not need to do

Michelangelo would see a block of marble and say that all he had to do was cut away what was not needed to release the statue within.
Reaching your goals is just as much about what you DON’T do as what you do.  You can convince yourself that you need to….check your personal email every 30 [...]

Living like your best years are in front of you

Speaking of yoga, when I first started taking yoga classes a decade ago, I had a teacher named Rolf Gates who started his professional life as an Army Ranger (the army equivalent of the Navy Seals) [pls see comments below; this isn't exactly right, apparently, but it's close].  One day, Rolf made the point in [...]

10 things I knew nothing about a year ago

Here’s a short list of things 10 things I knew absolutely nothing about at the start of 2008, before I started writing this blog:

What an RSS feed is / how it works
The differences between Bloglines and Google Reader
Which is better: WordPress or Blogspot
The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
Technorati rankings
What a trackback is, and whether they [...]