What would it be like to be free. If you were owned by another human, and the laws changed such that one human was no longer allowed to own another human. But you didn't know it, and your ex-owners had no particular interest in telling you? Information spreads more quickly today. But how many people [...]
Some days I can have 8 or more things on my to-do list to get them all done with ease. Other days in order to get just a single thing done it is all that can be on the to do list. It must be a priority for that day. I find that for things [...]
I recently passed my one-year anniversary of not having any job at all. This followed a couple of turbulent years: first deciding to quit my well-paying state job (a couple year process alone), then moving from the state job to a 20-hour per week legal job (and of course half the pay and no benefits), [...]
Often what we think will be a liability turns out being an asset. Don't shy away and try to hide a liability that is truly yours. Who knows what will come about when you are honest about it and how you might turn it into an asset
If you could outsource one task, what would it be? It is different for each of us because we both enjoy different things and have different strengths. Usually if we want to outsource something, we can find someone happy to do it for an amount we are happy to pay. It could be an arrangement [...]
How often do we assume someone else's reaction and act as if they feel the way we think they will or do? We have the power to be aware and to always check our assumptions. Instead of thinking "he is angry with me" we might ask "you appear angry, is it something that I did?". [...]
As I write this, email is currently not getting through to my work email for my law practice. I spent my morning playing around with domains trying to get something to work properly and managed to screw up my email in the process! The advantage of doing things ourselves is that we get a deeper [...]
I used to poke a bit of fun at law schools for teaching logical thinking rather than focusing on how to actually practice law or be a lawyer. I loved law school, and saw it's value, but also thought it odd that graduates are not be prepared to practice a certain area of law. The [...]
If it is worth doing at all, it is probably worth doing fully present. Many things feel like we can do while multitasking, but can we really or are we just cheating ourselves? This includes showing up for things. If we are still distracted and thinking about what was just happening or what's next we [...]
Developing beliefs is challenging. We are certainly not born with them. Our family and surrounding humans help shape our beliefs. Our experience plays a role. Then our beliefs get challenged by another person or experience. What do we do then? We start to see things in a new light and beliefs may shift overtime, or [...]
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