The 365 Commitment

If you have not caught on to this yet, I thought I would dedicate some thoughts to this topic. Learning has completely changed in the last year. The traditional learning model has been, for the last several centuries...

I am always on a quest to improve my health. I am not that good at it, but nonetheless, I am always trying to figure out new and improved ways to get stronger and healthier. I would love to be able to stay fit in my old...

Years ago, I read a funny Mark Twain quote: "If you eat a live frog for breakfast, everything else will seem easy that day." This is a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that if you do the hardest thing first, everything...

I have had limited exposure to a real scientific lab environment, but I've worked with enough clients in this space to understand some of their approaches. In one instance, I heard a researcher describe a single-subject...

When I was a young boy, I was worried about the uncertainty of things going on around me. We would go to the store, and I would be intensely focused on making sure my mom never left my sight. I would think, if I lost...

This next week, I am going to try to focus on coming to grips with anxiety that is caused when you are faced with uncertainty. Anxiety can come from many sources, but this source is, in particular, quite troublesome...

I am always experimenting with the best questions to ask myself or to ask during early-morning prayer or meditation: questions that provoke thought, questions that stimulate me to focus on my best efforts, questions...

To put this into a phrase, there is a fundamental need to learn to build failure into the system without allowing failure to terminate the system. See if this rings true with you. You spend days, perhaps weeks, building...

We spend a lot of time and money trying to improve. We listen to books, podcasts, videos, and spend countless dollars on ways to improve ourselves. However, the single greatest thing that we can do to improve anything...

A core principle to consider in daily living is to get control of what you spend your attention on before the world does it for you. I do this with a morning ritual. Every morning I like to ask myself the question, what...

Have you heard this phrase, Get while the getting’s good? It has been a while since I have heard someone say that, but I do remember when this was a common phrase. I am not sure where this came from, and after doing a...

We all have good intentions. If there were a reward for what we intend to do, then some of us would be highly decorated. Yet, unfortunately, many of our large aspirations never see the light of day. They lay dormant...

I sat down this morning and had a long debate with myself. I have decided to start numbering my 365 commitment blog by the number of consecutive days rather than by the 365-day cycle. So whereas today is technically Day...

You might have seen the movie Obsession recently. I will not spoil it for you, but it is a classic story of a young man using a talisman to get a wish granted, and he wished for a girl to be obsessed with him. Of...

I have noticed that one of the things that creates the most stress for me is simply thinking about everything I have to do. It is not necessarily that any one of those things is overwhelming. The problem is that when I...