Build a Spaceship
July 23rd, 2009
Burt Rutan and friends built a spaceship in just a few years. It only cost about $25 million.
What’s your dream?
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Skim this book and find your Dream Job
January 25th, 2009
How the bible of career-hunting guides helped this non-believer
These days a lot of people are asking themselves, “How do I find a job?”
Simple:
Get a copy of What Color is Your Parachute?.
Buy it. Take it out from your library.
Richard Nelson Bolles has been writing and rewriting this perennially best -selling career and job hunting guide since 1970.
Last August, after an expected promotion became an unexpected (and indefinite) vacation, I decided to accept this sudden influx of free time (and unemployment checks) and use it to seek out my dream job.
What Color is Your Parachute?, even the 1990′s version at my local library, changed my life. And I haven’t even read the whole thing.
Read more…
Big Questions: What is my purpose?, What Color is Your Parachute?, fighting fear, meeting goals
Ferriss’s Dreamlining Gets You Moving
January 10th, 2009
4 Dreams in 6-12 Months
Good Advice, Bad Jargon from the Author of The 4-hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss - making up words, making people jealous.
I don’t like some words. They feel embarrassing when you say them out loud – dietary supplement, self-help, interfacing, mingle. I can’t say or even write these words without cringing. Dreamlining is one of them.
It shouldn’t be legal to take any two words and slam them together…
Dreamlining, which I will henceforth refer to as DL, is a concept in Timothy Ferriss’s The 4-hour Workweek. DL has gotten a lot of tread on the internets and it is not because of the cool name.
Obviously, as you can infer from the two original words which were so rudely stuck together, DL is about putting a timeline to your dreams. Carpe diem plays a big part here, the recommendation being either a six-month or one-year timeline.
DL is also about putting a dollar sign on your dreams.
By doing a little math, you can bring that dream out of fantasy land, chop it up into little chunks, and start working on it today. Read more…
Big Questions: What is my purpose?, creating habits, how to make a decision, meeting goals
Distilled Existence
January 1st, 2009
How can life’s difficulties be so confusing when they can be summed up so easily?
There are are only two problems in life, (1) you know what you want, and you don’t know how to get it; and/or (2) you don’t know what you want.
- Steven Snyder, quoted by David Allen, p.251 of the incredible Getting Things Done.
I love this quote because if you begin to think about it, you begin to think about the Big Picture. Yet it is so simple. David Allen, the author of the famous Getting Things Done, goes a little farther, asserting that the solution to life’s two problems is simply:
- Make it up.
- Make it happen.
This makes me cringe a little, because making things up and making things happen can be incredibly complicated.
I’d rather not issue an imperative. Instead, I like to look at the questions that Mr. Snyder’s wonderful quote evokes:
- What do you want?
- What are you doing to get it?
Big Questions: What is my purpose?, communing with the universe, how to make a decision, meeting goals
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