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  • Unexpectedly Grateful

    Unexpectedly Grateful

    I’m in pain right now, and also someone grateful. My pain is better than it has been for the last few days, even though it is still worse than usual. That mild reduction in pain is a cause for gratitude. I am not always grateful that these reprieves but I should be. Losing something, or…

  • Writing, Living, and Resting

    Writing, Living, and Resting

    I used to write about life a lot more than I really invested in living it. I have some catch-up work to do in living by the principles I’ve preached. That catch-up work may occupy my attention to the point that I may not write here as much. You may have already noticed this in…

  • Motivation Doesn’t Matter Without Implementation

    Motivation Doesn’t Matter Without Implementation

    Being Specific “How?” is a universal and often neglected question. What follows is my opinion that I consider fact. Students don’t need to hear ” behave yourself”, or “do your best”. They need to hear “sit quietly and don’t poke anyone”, and “work through sections 1 through 4. If you don’t understand anything, ask me…

  • What’s Easy Gets Done

    What’s easy gets done. What’s something important you could make easier? What’s the very next step? Josh

  • Try Something New-Old

    Try Something New-Old

    The New-Old Things I’ve really gotten into “new-old” things recently. As I’ve been paring down my possessions, I realized I was not engaging with some of my favorite things. In the quest for something new, I forgot what I already had. That led me to explore not only my “new-old” things, but also old hobbies…

  • Preview: Nothing Needs to Change

    I had an unusually busy Sunday so I’ll just give you a preview for now: I don’t need anything to change for me to be happy. That’s a realization I had earlier this week. There’s so many things I feel like I should do or be, but even if I do none of them; am…

  • Is There a Lesson to Be Learned Here?

    Is There a Lesson to Be Learned Here?

    I think we miss out on a lot of wisdom by dismissing ideas that are extreme or that don’t work for us without adapting them. Extreme Minimalism I listened to a book by an extreme minimalist who got rid of almost all his stuff and lives in a ~200 sq. ft. apartment. Am I going…

  • Subtractive Solutions: When Less is More

    Subtractive Solutions: When Less is More

    Subtractive Solutions They did a study where experimenters added an unnecessary brick to a lego house that unbalanced the roof. The participants’ job was was to fix the house. The solution is simple, just remove the extra brick. But most participants opted for the most difficult solution: Adding an additional brick under every other corner…

  • Changing Our Expectations

    Changing Our Expectations

    Accept Life Without It I hung out with a friend today and as he was leaving, he told me a piece of dating advice he found applicable to all of life: “You should never accept anything into your life without accepting what life would be like without it.” It will save you a lot of…

  • A Beautiful Place

    A Beautiful Place

    A Beautiful Place I look to my left and I see the sun shining on green grass carpeted with orange leaves that mark the end of summer. I look to my right and I see some sun there as well. I want to go to the left, but I told myself I’d go the right.…