“It’s not what you know it’s who you know.” We’ve all heard this saying, and I’ve heard it as much as anyone growing up. At times I took it to heart, which was a mistake. And it goes back to my words of advice on life about being careful about who you take advice from.……
Category: Personal
Thoughts, events and news about me. Probably the least-used category, hopefully.
Strange Days are These
With the Coronavirus keeping people shut in their houses and social distancing, quarantining themselves and self-isolating, it provides a lot of time that would otherwise be spent on productive activities elsewhere, and with people that we may not be able to spend time with. I can check both of those boxes, and on top of……
Do Yourself a Solid
“Doing a solid” was a national catchphrase that went, thankfully, as quickly as it came. Middle America likes to adopt specific phrases and gestures and latch onto them as if they make the walking cliche’ using the fad in public unique in some way, or suddenly “cool” even though it’s been used already millions of……
Learn When to Take Advice
Life Lesson…what number are we on? Another valuable life lesson I’ve learned the hard way is when to take guidance from someone. And just as relevant, if not more so, is WHOM to take advice from. In light of this post being about when to take advice and from whom, I thought a post-script prologue was due since……
Oh The Places You’ll Go!
It’s time to talk about the places I’ve lived because I’ve moved around a lot. I’ve lived in a lot of places, in different states and stayed for a long time in a lot of places people don’t typically get to go. Most of them are places people dream of living in. So in……
Stay Positive
Some Ways to Stay Positive Staying positive is something that seems obvious to be happy, but it’s hard for some people to do. Harder for some than others, and I believe that’s because of constantly training ourselves to either think positively, which is hard and must be consciously done sometimes or think negatively. Thinking negatively……
Gratitude and Humility
Some thoughts on humility and gratitude, which are necessary to be happy.
How Humans Cope with Stress
How my body is reacting to stress.
When You’re Out of Answers
I’ve come to a point in life where I’m truly between a rock and a hard place. My whole life I’ve been able to come up with solutions to some complex problems, but I find myself suddenly stuck with no way out. I have no one to turn to, no safety net and no one……
Perceptions
People’s perceptions are amazing things. They can be extremely strong motivators. They fascinate me not only from a human behavior standpoint but because they matter so much in life. Not necessarily to me, mind you, but in life they do. Perceptions are what mainly help us form opinions and cast judgment about situations and other……