Category: General

  • The Trick to Solving Problems

    Problems are much easier to solve if you know what the problem is! Tonight I spent a half hour digging out the door frame to our bedroom when the door knob goes in past the plate. It has never latched, and we finally got to a point where shutting our door to keep Jayden out…

  • Celebrate Small Successes – Look Past Small Failures

        When you are trying to attain a goal, whether it be a one time goal, or establishing a habit, your successes and failures are bound to look like a roller-coaster. Some days or weeks (maybe even months) will seem to be getting better and better, and then sometimes you will hit one of those steep…

  • Setting Goals

        I will be one of the first to tell you how important it is to set goals. I have seen goals do some miraculous things in my life. However, in writing my last post I realized that sometimes things are much easier on paper than we think. For instance, at the New Year I decided…

  • Simple Life Lessons

    So you know how life, just when you feel like you are starting to get things down can throw some curves… Well, that is how I feel now. I think I started thinking about too many things all at once that I wanted to do. First of all, I started working a little more on…

  • Project Based, Daily Todo List

        So yesterday, halfway though the day, I was having trouble getting myself motivated to do ANYTHING at work. I work as a web application developer (full time and freelance) and I am constantly in the middle of a bunch of projects. Lately, I’ve been struggling to keep on track or work on what (I think)…

  • Mornings are SO important!

        I just read an article on how important mornings are to the rest of your day.  I totally agree with the idea of this post.  I might even say the same thing for a week.  I was actually just thinking about it this weekend.  Last week was a rough week for me.  It really…

  • The Fifteen-Weed Formula

        The other day I read a short article called “The Fifteen-Weed Formula“. The basic idea of the story is that there was a lady who suffered from multiple sclerosis which made it difficult to do physically demanding tasks. One day she noticed a whole bunch of weeds in her back yard and noted that she…

  • Exercise Update – Sat. Evening

    Volleyball: Yesterday at work we played volleyball for an hour and a half. This was way more exercise than I thought it would be, and I was feeling it this morning – I was afraid I wasn’t gonna be able to exercise or make it through what I started. Running: Well I just finished another…

  • Exercise Update

    Running: Well I went running on Saturday morning.  I put Jayden in the stroller and took him for a short run (google maps says 0.8 miles).  Considering that was the most I have ran in a while, I figured thats pretty good.  Then Tuesday I ran down a less developed road (which I enjoyed because…

  • Fitness Update – Marathons and Push-ups!

     Ok, here goes nothing… I’ve been thinking about these things for a couple of days now, but I guess I’ll commit to them… First up, marathons! At the beginning of the year I set some goals for myself. One was to exercise everyday, and work to run in a marathon. Its a really really long…