Last year while flipping channels, I caught an interview with Baron Wolman, the first photographer for Rolling Stone Magazine on PBS’s Roadtrip Nation. I was captivated by his candid answers and his enthusiasm and somewhat surprised at how inspired I felt from such a brief segment. Now, every time I watch it again online...
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Self Help Motivation
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. Self help motivation aims to get us past those barriers
Giving 100% until you have an answer
How to get yourself motivated quickly and actually get things done
Motivation isn’t just necessary for the big things, like climbing mountains or swimming with sharks. It’s also critical for getting the small, but necessary, things out of the way so that mountain climbing can be more than a dream. In my experience a lack of action is often tied to a being overwhelmed with...
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Inspiration from irritation
As I’ve been working the kinks out of this site, I’ve been learning some interesting things about myself. I get really embarrassed by what I see as completely avoidable errors; I found six broken links that were broken because I had copied the html code incorrectly. An easy and human kind of mistake and...
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The need for instant gratification
Today I found myself yearning for instant gratification and feedback. I’d been brave and dived into the template code to add the “subscribe by email” link in the header. You probably didn’t notice that it wasn’t there yesterday, but it wasn’t. After nudging it around a little so that it fit in with the...
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The energy for change often comes from adversity
I remember the moment I decided to take charge of my own unhappiness instead of just hoping that something would come along to fix it. It was a few months after 9/11 when I was working for a large software company famous for its testosterone-driven management style. Not surprisingly they were having trouble retaining...
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Celebrate the Vernal Equinox
Spring comes to the northern hemisphere this weekend (March 20th). For those of you that don’t keep track, the equinox is when there is an equal amount of daylight and darkness. From the equinox to the summer solstice (June 21st) the days will get longer and longer, by just a handful of seconds each...
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A little daily electronic encouragement with Notes from the Universe
I’m not a big fan of having ‘stuff’ show up in my email inbox on a daily basis. Even if I’ve signed up for it, often as not I’ve relegated it to the spam filter within a month because they pile up or require too many clicks. But not always. There is something about...
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