Category: Ideas
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Dismiss Your Dream
All it takes is one person to Dismiss Your Dream. All it takes is one person to give you a negative comment about how dumb your dream is to dash it. What’s sad is that sometimes it’s the people that you love and that truly love you that sometimes dash…
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A House Number
….gives you identity. I had never thought about it before. All my life I have had an address. I could point to somewhere in every season of my life that I have lived. I had never thought about a House Number giving me identity. There are parts of the world…
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Pronoia
The writer and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow defined pronoia as “the suspicion the Universe is a conspiracy on your behalf”. It can be thought of as the opposite of paranoia. You can look it up. Check out the wikipedia page about it. It is not a new idea, but it is…
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A Journey into Fantasy
I heard this line a few days ago. It made me think of a few things. First of all, I don’t think of fantasy as something that you have to journey to. I always think that fantasy is always going to be there. I don’t think of the journey into…
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The Home Screen
Everything leaks identity. You know how they say that you can tell a lot about a person by taking a look at their checkbook and calendar – well, that was a saying before smartphones. You don’t need to look at 2 things any longer. Technically, you can simplify things and…
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On the Basketball Court
We were watching the Oprah interview of the Miami Heat big 3. There was a group interview and there were individual interviews. Tonight, as I listened to Oprah interview Chris Bosh and Duane Wade, there was something that both of them said that stood out as an incredible identity insight.…
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Becoming What You Hate
Before you start shooting down this idea with specific details, hear me out. I heard someone say this – that we all become what we hate. I am sure there are detailed things that you just cannot become. If you hate veggies, you’re not going to become that. I heard…
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In Order to be Humble
……..you kinda have to be great first – or at least think that you’re great. Humility means that you are amazing. If you aren’t that amazing, there wouldn’t be a need for humility would there. What do you think?
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The Group Identity vs. Your Identity
A quick post about Jim Carrey and the lessons that we can glean about our individual identity.
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Break the Pattern
I think you have to be at least 30 to understand this post, but a sign of progress and change is having the ability to Break the Pattern. Take a look back at your life, and ask yourself, “Are you able to break the pattern?” It could be any pattern,…
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The Currency of the Boring
a post about how you have to endure boring stuff in order to get to the good stuff. movies, edward norton jr, and the hulk.
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