I am currently enduring one of those weeks. My energy levels are plumbing new and never before seen depths. My body is complaining as cramp descending on me periodically without warning. My mind keeps meandering down nasty self pitying paths. All in all it’s not the worst week ever, at least Manchester United lost and I haven’t pooped my pants, my 26 year poopie pants free streak is still holding.

So this week started off pretty badly ended up having my fortress of weekend solitude crash...

In the last years I’ve managed to leverage considerable additional quality out of my life. The most important factor in doing this has been focusing on the little things and living actively. Living actively has nothing to do with running around the block and everything to do with living with purpose.

I have made a number of changes to my days but the most effective ones I’ve found were hard to imagine but easy to achieve.

Here’s my list of changes which have had the biggest impact an...

I never paid the price in hours of practice that I should have for my digital painting and it’s coming back to bite me now.

I’m currently spending between an hour and two hours every evening  on a painting project. This project started out as just a job to get the cob webs clear and get myself back into the swing of things. I’ve now invested about 7 hours on the project and my obsessive need for semi-perfection has left me with no real progress and a lot of frustration.

A few things ...

Well I’ve just completed my first writing plan for the coming week. I am enjoying the ease of use of my current site and the freedom it affords me to concentrate on content.

Spending some time last night to understand the direction I’d like to take with my writing I think the key areas I’d like to focus on are development. Development in every of the facets I choose to cover as well as implementation of the science of develepment and change.

I subscribe to the RSS feed at The Simple Dollar, and constantly find myself humbled at how useful the information on this blog is. As a result i have chose a post from the simple dollar to launch my first new post on this blog. The simple reason for this is this blog has been one of the main reasons i've gotten the itch to try my hand at blogging.

The post Personal Finance Progress Internally and externally, is a good reminder of the need to have a quantitive base for changes we wish to make...