What Are Your Priorities?

December 29, 2009

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I go to Starbucks every morning before work. It’s my latest guilty pleasure, since starting a new corporate job a few months ago.
I have this incredibly adult thing that has developed on it’s own: a routine. Usually routines scare me and bore me, to the point where I have to purposely shake [...]

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Do What Scares You

December 13, 2009

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I’m jumping in head first tomorrow.
I’ve decided to challenge myself and do something everyday for the next 90 days. It’s something that I have been making excuses about, and actively procrastinating (that’s an even better oxymoron than jumbo shrimp). It’s something that I think would be good for me, yet I have [...]

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I Don’t Know How To Do This

December 5, 2009

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I don’t know how to do this.
I don’t know how to be the person that I know I need to be. I don’t know how to be emotionally healthy, peaceful, and happy. I don’t know how to be free of the constant inner struggle, of depression or loneliness, or over thinking and [...]

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Part Two: Alcoholics Not-So-Anonymous: A Sneak Peek Inside My First AA Meeting

December 1, 2009

Note: This is Part 2 of 2 in a series. Part one was first published this Sunday, here.

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My palms were dripping in sweat. My chest constricted, and my breath became shallow. Admitting that I am an alcoholic behind the shield of the Internet is one thing, but standing up in a [...]

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Alcoholics Not-So-Anonymous: A Sneak Peek Inside My First AA Meeting-Part One

November 29, 2009

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Note: This is part one of a two part series.
The room was packed. It was nothing like I envisioned, in the hundreds of times where I imagined attending an AA meeting in my head for the past year. But I guess that’s how it usually works- when you actually do something that [...]

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Thoughts on Change

November 28, 2009

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“The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you the dawn is coming.”
~Jonathan Nolan (Screenwriter, The Dark Knight)
I used to be addicted to change. I used to love it, probably because it is such a wonderful defense mechanism. Moving cities, changing jobs. When nothing is stable, you [...]

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I Don’t Want to Be The Alcoholic That I Am

November 21, 2009

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My palms started sweating, just a few minutes before beginning to write this. My breath is short. It scares the shit out of me to even think about writing something so intensely personal, so honest, my biggest secret that I’ve worked many years to keep hidden.
I’m an alcoholic.
And I don’t want to [...]

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Patience is a Virtue I Don’t Always Have

November 11, 2009

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So, my internet connection broke. Now, broke is a strong word. What kind of broke you say?
I spent the past three hours of my life on the phone with tech support trying to figure out what kind of broke.
And nothing tests your patience like trying to navigate a computer automated phone tree, [...]

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3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Listen to a Thing I Have to Say

November 1, 2009

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Last night I stumbled across an awesome post at Wage Slave Rebel that I had missed a few weeks back called Bullshit With Bullets.
JD makes multiple fascinating points including how us bloggers are, “A narcissistic bunch of traffic whores.”
Despite my initial reaction of thinking “yeah, all bloggers are, but me”, I continued reading and [...]

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Transforming Your Life From the Inside Out

October 25, 2009

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This is a guest post from Bud at A Boundless World
It seems all people talk about these days are the latest hacks on how to become crazy organized or simple steps to boost your productivity by 500 percent, all of which are great things.
Like everyone else, I enjoy using my time wisely and creating [...]

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