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Category Archives: Personal Freedom
Handling Fear
Fear has been in my life for as long as I can remember. Sometimes it’s appeared as a small amount of anxiety and other times it’s made me freeze in my tracks, preventing me from doing anything. The most effective … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged comfort, comfort zones, Fear, Handling Fear, managing fear, solutions
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When Everything Starts to Make Sense
There comes a time when your perspective shifts, everything starts to make sense, and you begin to understand why things happened the way they did. You look back at painful moments and see the lessons you learned from them. You … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged compassion, lessons, life mission, perspective shift, purpose, realizations, understanding, When Everything Starts to Make Sense
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My Week of Floating
At the time of this writing, I’ve floated for eight days straight. I had originally planned to float for just two days in a row, but then I decided to see what it would be like to float every day … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged float, floating, Life Hacks, My Week of Floating, peace, relaxation, rest
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An Amazing Saturday
I’ve had a lot of wonderful days as of late and yesterday was no exception. It was easily the best Saturday I’ve had in a while; almost everything went smoothly and the day was full of cool things from beginning … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged An Amazing Saturday, beach, float, floating, friends, Frisbee, Jenga, peace, ping pong
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Patience and Understanding
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I would say that a little knowledge combined with an unwillingness to consider different viewpoints is even more dangerous. I think of this whenever I see someone jump to conclusions … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged bigger picture, communication, learning, nuance, patience, Patience and Understanding, understanding
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A Strategy Based on Stephen Covey’s Ideas
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People contains so much wisdom and so many life hacks that I regularly refer back to it. Whenever I do, I always find something good that I had forgotten or never noticed before. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged achievement, goals, habits, plans, Stephen Covey, success, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Realizations from My Most Recent Float
I’ve had some odd experiences in my last few floats. I fell asleep in each of them, but I’ve done that in most of my floats, so that isn’t the odd part. The odd part is that I’ve gotten fidgety … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Alan Watts, float, floating, insights, realizations, Realizations from My Most Recent Float, revelations, sleep
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My Lovely Sunday
I had a nice, relaxing Sunday yesterday. I started the day by getting up and going to work. It was a steady morning with a few slow periods in between the busy times, so I had no complaints about how … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement, Swing Dancing
Tagged dancing, floating, My Lovely Sunday, Sunday, swing dancing, The Volstead, unicycling
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Some More of My Plan
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about ways to make a positive difference in the world. In the process, I’ve devised, adjusted, and abandoned a lot of plans that I hope will create the changes that I want to … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged change, direct alternatives, finances, freedom, indirect alternatives, life situation, personal freedom, relationships, self-improvement, self-improvement work, Some More of My Plan, stability, tipping point
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Some of My Thoughts on Human Nature
I’ve been thinking a bit lately about human nature. Even though I haven’t directed much conscious thought at this subject in the past few years, I have spent a lot of time analyzing related subjects. That analysis appears to have … Continue reading
Posted in Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged change, culture, environment, habits, human nature, nature, nurture, Rescripting, Some of My Thoughts on Human Nature, Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Power of Habit, upbringing
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