“Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.” – Epictetus
There’s a several scenes from my favorite movie Local Hero that I replay in my head. This scene is on the beach, while Mac and the locals wait for Ben and Happer to finish their long meeting in the beach hut. They all pour brandy into styrofoam cups and Mac offers a toast: Mac: “Well, sláinte,…
A couple of months ago I copied the Proust questionnaire after hearing Rolf Potts talk about it on one of his podcasts. Borrowing from a Vanity Fair segment on the topic, “The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed…
Bristol, Rhode Island is home to the first and thus oldest 4th of July parade in America. The stripe down the middle of the road is red, white and blue. This town is patriotic and quaint. It’s home to Roger Williams University and the America’s Cup Museum, but my favorite thing in this town is…
“This idea of ‘just follow your passion’, I don’t even have an understanding of what that means. Even though my whole life I have been very clear about the way I wanted to create change, and for whom, it wasn’t this out of the box understanding that we were going to use different forms of…
“Build streaks. Do the work every single day. Blog daily. Write daily. Ship daily. Show up daily. Find your streak and maintain it.” – Seth Godin, The Practice I made a relatively big deal (by my standards) of blog number 900. Well, this is 914 and I just keep quietly going. I have some exciting…
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” – Seneca The other night I was walking alone on the street. Except I wasn’t alone at all. Two great horned owls were calling out to each other high in the pine trees, moving silently in a dance of their own around…
