I’ve actually been thinking about motivation and its effect on boredom (and vice versa) quite a bit this past week. Was I bored? Actually, not really. Honestly, I was pretty motivated. It was just something I was chewing on for awhile because it seems to be an excuse I have used before for remaining in [...]

I’ve spent countless hours of my young life figuring out which productivity systems worked best for me. I’ve gone through programs like Things, Evernote, the Omni stuff, and my current to-do list manager, Wunderlist. Yes, I understand the inherent irony behind spending most of my waking hours wading through feature bloat and trying to do [...]

Seth Godin coined the phrase “sneezers” to describe the small majority of people on the “adoption curve” that exist before early adopters. Stowe Boyd also has a pretty great article describing what these people are like. These “sneezers” are the ones who get the widget before you’ve even heard of it. They’re lined up—in costume—before [...]

Setting goals is one of those quirky activities our grade school teachers tried to get us to do every year, on the first day of school. They’d sit us down, pass around a handout with some hokey title like, “GOALS! WOOT! BOOYAH!” or something like that (it’s been awhile since I’ve been in third grade…). [...]

Stop telling me you don’t have time. Stop telling me how busy you are. Stop updating your Facebook account after you’ve complained about being too busy. Stop telling me about your favorite show on television after you tell me you can’t figure out how to start your blog. Stop making excuses for yourself–excuses are boring, [...]

Have you ever dreamed of writing a novel? Like a big-boy chapter book? I certainly have, and I’m almost to the point where I can check off that goal of mine. I’ve always felt like I could do as well (or better) than a lot of the novels I’d read, and since I read a [...]