Category: Personal Growth

  • Maxim #12: Manage the Motivation Monkey

    You probably have a few monkeys you deal with on a daily basis. Some of them are other people’s problems that try to jump on your back and want you…


  • Maxim #11: No Zero Days

    Some days you just aren’t feeling it. You don’t have the energy to work out. You don’t have the time to write. You don’t have the motivation to practice. The…


  • Maxim #10: Tame the Advice Monster

    If I was going to get a tattoo, the one I might need the most is Tame the Advice Monster. Although I am better than I was, it has been…


  • Maxim #9: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

    Fear is not always a bad thing. In fact, it is sometimes a very good thing. There are things we should fear. Like any other emotion, fear is telling us…


  • Maxim #8: Ask for the Cheat Codes

    Playing video games is a lot of fun. Good video games keep it fun by making it progressively more difficult. It’s easy at first so you keep playing and advancing.…


  • What I Read in September

    Soundtracks by Jon Acuff (Re-read)This might be my favorite book by Jon Acuff. Soundtracks are his word for repetitive thoughts. We have them ruining in our minds constantly. Often, they…


  • Maxim #7: Embrace the Suck

    This is what you wanted. You wanted it to be hard. You wanted it to suck so you could prove to yourself that you could handle it. That you were…


  • On Death

    Every morning when I am getting dressed, I put this coin in my pocket. “Memento Mori” means “Remember Death”. It is a reminder to me that I might not live…


  • Maxim #6: Do The Reps

    This maxim is another soundtrack I heard from Jon Acuff. I love it. It can be applied to so many different things: Working out. Playing the guitar. Learning to juggle.…


  • Maxim #5: Make Tomorrow Easy Today

    On the bottom of my habit tracker card (you can see an image on this post) are the letters MTET, which stand for Make Tomorrow Easy Today. It reminds me…


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