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I’ve just recently finished off a big project that I’ve had going for over a year. It feels good. It feels really good. It feels good to be done. It feels good to be able to think about other things. It feels good to not have that nagging project saying, “I’m still not done yet.” [...]

Sometimes I catch myself rushing through things. Rushing through work. Rushing through plans with friends. Rushing through working out. Rushing through talking. Why? Why am I rushing? Where am I rushing to get to? Why am I trying to hurry through what I’m doing? I’m not sure. It takes a lot to even realize I’m [...]

Wikipedia says hormesis is “the term for generally favorable biological responses to low exposures to toxins and other stressors”. 2 examples of stressors that we endure regularly in our lives are flu shots and exercise. We get a small dose of something that is actually harmful to us and then we come back stronger. We [...]

Whenever I’m stuck creatively, I head over to my R&D department to see what they’ve got cooking. What I mean by that is that I start thinking like I’m in the R&D Department instead of the lame report-writing department. This is all pretend because I don’t have an actual R&D department. R&D means research and [...]

It’s not. Just not just the point and shoot kind of thing that most people think it is. Take Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO for instance. Three things that most people haven’t even heard of. Yet they’re the basis for the process of getting an amazing photo. One of the reasons most people don’t see [...]

I was running through a beautiful marsh area near my house on another marathon training run. My mind was wandering like crazy as it tends to do when I run. Things were slowly connecting like they usually do when I let my mind wander. Running tends to do that for me. I let it go [...]

This post is part of the rockThink Book Review Series where I review books that help make you better at what you do. This book was about writing. [Update] This book has been rolled up into Jeff’s new book, You Are a Writer. He’s expanded on the ideas in Every Writer’s Dreams and gone more [...]

[Update] This book is no longer available and has been rolled up into Jeff’s new book called You Are a Writer. I’m working my way through that one now. I just recently finished off the small eBook from Jeff Goins, Before Your First Book. It was a quick read but offered some fantastic advice. I’m [...]

Thomas Turnbull and Alan Palazzolo have put together a great book on Drupal’s mapping features, appropriately called Mapping with Drupal. I found this book at the perfect time. For my outdoor site, PureOutside, I’ve recently installed Drupal and am building 2 new sections to the site that both include mapping. I knew that Drupal had [...]

February’s Challenge didn’t go so well. I thought after how hard January’s Challenge was, February’s Project would be a breeze. The motivation was entirely there but something else was lacking. That something else was time. With how much I’m running right now for the Marathon training, there just wasn’t a whole lot of time left [...]