Josh's Blog

Category: Weekly Wanderings

  • 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.…

  • How might your life be better?

    How might your life be better?

    How might your life be better with “less, but better”? I’ve been eliminating things that aren’t as important (junk, and merely “good” things) to allow me to focus on the most important things. I think this will be a lifelong journey. I’ll never “arrive” with the perfect amount of stuff, commitments, and focus points. What…

  • Blog Going Down

    My blog is going down for a week and a half starting Monday. I won’t be blogging while it’s down. I could fix these downtimes (5-10 days three times a year) for $100/yr, but I don’t see that being worth the investment at present. I probably won’t blog this weekend either because I’m sick and…

  • Do What Works, Even if It’s Not Hard

    Do What Works, Even if It’s Not Hard

    Do What Works, Even if It’s Not Hard I think there’s a tendency to feel like if we don’t do something the hard way, we’re cheating. While that is true sometimes, most problems are best solved through easy solutions even if they might be harder to find. Example: My time to write is often on…

  • One Verse A Day

    One Verse A Day

    One Verse About a week ago, I chose a Tiny Habit. I chose to read one verse from the Bible every day after I do my health routine when I wake up. I usually read more than one verse, but any more than that is extra credit. No matter how crazy my day is, I…

  • If I don’t.

    This week’s “question” is from Greg McKeown: I choose to ___ because if I don’t ___ A month ago, we were leaving for a trip. I was thinking I could just barely do a thumbnail I’d been wanting to do for work before I go if I sacrificed some important pre-trip tasks. But before I…

  • Questions Determine Quality

    Questions Determine Quality

    Questions Determine Quality It has been said that “the quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself.” The questions you ask yourself and others matter. But how do you know which questions to ask? You can know which to ask by getting more practice, exposing yourself to new…