Tag: motivation

  • little experiments

    little experiments

    Goals are out. Experiments are in. I was listening to a podcast a few weeks ago and an interesting idea was suggested by one of the guests. We have these big ideas about goals and resolutions and accomplishments, but maybe we’re wrong about all that. Thinking about self-improvement or personal projects as zero-sum must-achieve-end-state goals…

  • hammer meet nail

    Creativity is sometimes, to borrow a turn of phrase, a hammer looking for a nail. Inside every creative soul there can be this latent urge to make something, anything, and despite the tools sitting on shelves or the technology idling on the desk, all of it patiently waiting for inspiration to strike, the creative hammer…