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This is a big planet we live on. I’ve only seen a little bit of it. These maps make that pretty obvious. When I sat down and wrote down the big themes of my life, travel is one of them. I love seeing new places, meeting interesting people, eating unusual foods, etc. Then why . . . → Read More: Travel daydreaming As I’ve written before, I have been getting up at 5:00AM for over 6 months now. It has been working very well for me. I get more done during the day, I’m more alert all day, and have no trouble sleeping either at night or during the occasional nap. I have been a little concerned . . . → Read More: Sleep hacking justified! I’m not really interested in any big way in juggling, but it’s always been one of those “I wish I could…” things. I’ve tried juggling a bit and even looked at the Klutz juggling book but it never really clicked for me. But a friend sent me this amazing video of comedian Chris Bliss doing a . . . → Read More: Juggling I saw this in the local paper today and thought it was worth “clipping” to the blog. For me, meditation has given me more space between thought and action. That is, it seems like I have time to watch my thoughts and then make a good decision about how to act, or (most often) just let . . . → Read More: Ten steps aid keeping your cool I’ve gotten some good feedback about my original post about Saving time at the supermarket with a shopping list. I spent some time revising the shopping list to help in a few ways: 1) Now I have the week’s menu on the list itself. Before I would write the menu on a sticky, but now . . . → Read More: Updated Shopping List (As you might know, my wife is dying of cancer, that’s why you’ll see a bunch of death related posts on my blog for a bit.) I first heard this poem sung as a song by Sister Chang Kong at a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh. She talked about how she had sung it at the . . . → Read More: This Body is Not Me Like my last post on exercising your brain by learning a new language, here’s another worthwhile endeavor to exercise your brain: Do something different every day. Every time you do something different your brain takes note. It’s given new stimuli, it has new things to think about, and see and do. As many studies show, your mind is a “use it or lose it” proposition. (see, Mental Exercise Nearly Halves Risk of Dementia, for example). That is, your mind will inexorably decline as you age (just as your muscles will) if you don’t continue to stimulate it. This is one of the reasons that I decided to . . . → Read More: Keep your brain active: Learn a new language! From “Slaughterhouse-Five” (Kurt Vonnegut): “When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say . . . → Read More: So it goes I created a shopping list that saves me a tremendous amount of time when shopping. It’s organized by store, and by aisle in the store. At home when I use something up, or will need something in a recipe, I write it down in the aisle where it will be found. Then, when at the . . . → Read More: Saving time at the supermarket with a shopping list |
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