I try to keep this blog upbeat and positive, but I also strive to be totally transparent and honest in my writing. Sometimes, this blog is nothing more than a sounding board … that’s what it is for this entry. I’m sure there are plenty of people who can relate to what I’m about to share. I lost a friend today. He didn’t die, but our friendship did. …
A few months ago, I was doing some research on social media marketing and came across a guy named Gary Vaynerchuk, known my many as “Gary V.” From what I learned in my initial (and clearly half-hearted) research on the guy, he was a dude who created exponential growth in his family’s (already-successful) wine business via a YouTube channel called Wine Library. Blah blah blah, snooze. What I…
Today I wrote the 12th of my 100 living tributes. If you haven’t read my original post about my tributes for the living, you can find it here. So far, this has been an awesome experience. I’m currently sitting at a laundromat in Colorado, doing laundry during a rainy afternoon and decided share some thoughts on my #TFTL experience so far. But first, a gallery of random wildflowers…
Riding a bicycle is such a perfect metaphor for life. I mean, there are countless famous quotes that compare bicycling to life. Some of my favorites are: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. — Charles M. Schultz Whenever I see an adult on…
Hey all! It’s been a minute since I’ve had a chance to write – I’ve had a lot of client projects going, traveled out to Colorado, and have since been wrestling with the solar/electrical system on my RV in between adventures and work. More on Colorado adventures coming soon in the other blog. I binged on some of my favorite podcasts during the three-and-a-half day drive out here, including This…
I distinctly remember the moment when I no longer wanted to live. I wasn’t just a little sad, or in a rut, or going through a rough patch – I truly wanted to die. It was the middle of the day during the final weeks of my last semester of college. I’d been laying in bed all day with the blinds drawn, cursing the sun that tried to…
Yesterday was another rainy afternoon in Florida – a good day, I figured, to try out a sensory deprivation tank. Floating was something I’d wanted to do for a while, so I called Sacred Floats and Gems in Tampa. They had a tank available immediately. Before I could talk myself out of it (I’d read a few accounts of people freaking out in tanks), I was on my way to the shop. What…
Over the last couple of years, I’ve noticed I seem to attract a lot of, what I can only describe as, human succubus. I’m talking about those people who suck everything out of you, who leave you drained as hell every time you interact with them. The energy-sucking skills of these leeches are boundless – they can siphon every last drop of vitality and joy from you through…
*This post is a continuation of You’re fired! – if you haven’t read that yet, check it out. This post will make much more sense if you do 🙂 So the first order of affairs was looking at my cash situation, which was pretty dim. The company had given me two weeks of severance pay, which amounted to like $1200 after taxes. I was still teaching spin classes four…
I was recently talking with a friend about my last job as the marketing manager for an insurance firm in St. Pete. My last job, like so many before it, from which I was fired. The epiphany about my propensity to get fired is one I only recently had, after over five years of self-employment. Not everyone is meant to be an employee….including me. And maybe you aren’t…