Brian Dick

This is not my saying. I heard it from my football coach and I'm pretty sure he didn't even come up with it . But I do know he wasn't using it in the same context I've been using. By him using this mantra everyday in the hot summer practices, however, it really stick with me. I use it today, to improve my entire self. Not just improving my football self (which doesn't exist anymore anyways). I try to ensure that I focus on at least one aspect of my life everyday to improve by 2% (to be honest I forget a lot of days, but ideally I'd do it everyday). This may mean pressing myself to learn a skill for a longer duration than feels comfortable. Focusing on improving a project I'm working on at work. Or increasing the amount of or the quality of time I spend with friends and family. I know the 2% is a bit froo-froo and unquantifiable in most/all of these cases, but it helps me focus on pressing just a little bit harder. I also like that it's 2%. Just a litt

I can't imagine I'm that much fundamentally different than others and I regularly am trying to find patterns or fundamental truths in life. Obviously there must be some pattern or action that successful people take to reach their success. There must be a formula for creating a business or a viral video, popular brand, pop content. Maybe if I research enough of other successes I could determine the hidden truth or formula. Maybe I could even strip it of  its waste or inefficient and I could do it even faster or easier. The more I think about this the more I think its flawed at best and completely untrue at worst. This is disturbing to me as would prefer a defined answer that is simply yet unknown, than complete randomness or chance. I do however think that's why religions and self help speakers etc. can be so successful and intoxicating. They provide the idea of there being a truth, a formula. People crave this. I crave this. I can be led, propagandized, bamboozled, lied to

I'm constantly reminding myself to start writing. I think I have cool article ideas; and, then I just don't write. It frustrates me. But I still don't write. So tonight I figured I'd just start writing to try to break the spell. Only thing I can think of off the top of my head is we went out and bought a mattress tonight and I learned from the guy who sold is a mattress that Sears started the Discover card. I was skeptical, but I just checked the Wikipedia page tonight. It checks out. I also talked myself into finally working more on the woodworking project I started for my wife. I start things and get really excited at first but the second the fine, boring details pop up, that's when the procrastinating starts. The second I actually just sit down and do it, I actually like it and it feels fulfilling, but that's been my MO for as long as I can remember. Things like sanding, and exacto kniving the excess wood glue from the work piece is relatively easy stuff, i