- How to content is only beneficial if accompanied with action. Consuming is not doing. Consuming is not practice. Often it is the opposite. Say you are watching a ‘how to’ piano video, one should be seated down with a piano for best results. Real hands on practice is the most important step one can take in improve at anything. Including the self.
- They who read an article about defeating procrastination are procrastinating. Who hasn’t started watching a youtube video with the best of intentions for a self improvement video and then found themselves down rabbit hole of movie trailers? Can’t…
Reading, watching, and listening is having its time over the last few months. With a cold winter and a deadly virus still hanging out, consuming the work of others from the safety of my apartment has been a top tier activity.
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Richard Feynman, Six Easy Pieces
Feynman is best known as a physics professor at the collegiate level, specifically graduate level. Feynman’s name likely lives on due to the character that he was and the pinach he taught with. No one put asses in the seats of Physics III at Caltech like Richard Feynman did in the 1960's.
This book…
Easy to understand and easy to implement. How all habits should be.
Try this one for weight lose, increased energy, and general mood improvement.
Step one: Eat your last meal of the day one hour earlier than normal.
Some may call this dinner or supper. Regardless of what you call it, see if you can reconize the one hour window in which you normally eat your final meal.
If you currently each your last meal at 6–7pm move it up to 5–6pm.
Step 2: Do not eat again after this meal.
No further direction needed for step 2.
Step 3…
The ability to learn anything.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. — Einstein.
Recently I gave a presentation on personal finance. Shortly after the presentation the host company asked for feedback from all the speakers. Another speaker sent a reply all with feedback. Her feedback; her subject, credit scores, couldn’t be taught in a one hour session. Which is funny because that is the exact feedback I gave when I first started speaking at the company. However three years later my tune has changed.
Why? I understand the subject better and in turn have become better at teaching it…
Our short attention and today's trends.
For three years and eleven months you know what most Americans don’t give a damn about? Swimming.
But once every four years the summer Olympics happen and suddenly swimming is talked about. There is an excitement that makes its way into our conversations. Interrupting talk about the weather, football, and our commutes.
For a short of period of time every four summers the quick excitement of olympic swimming grabs our attention, briefly.
The same can be said for politics. Every four years we have another election year, political campaigns ramp up and everyone has an opinion about everything they say.
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One you see it you can’t unsee it.
Super Bowl LV is fast approaching. Millions will gather in front of their televisions to watch and they will watch for different reasons; the game itself, the halftime show, and the commercials.
Allow me to categorize the SB spectactator types:
First our football fans. They watch because they enjoy football. For someone who enjoys to consume the game why wouldn't they watch the highest level of the sport?
Next the entertainment seekers. Those tuning in for the halftime show and those tuning in to catch the ads. …
The following are actual events from November 28th 2014 to December 2nd 2014. Names were changed but they shouldn’t mind anyways as few people will read this.
Your mid to late 20’s is a self serving time for many. From 25–29 we are still deemed young without being that young. It’s a time where many are starting to get a hold on their careers, likely something stable has started to fill the hours between morning and evening during the week. While many will say this is the beginning of a soul sucking journey I say as a mid 20 something…
I came to Medium wanting to write about self improvement for a bigger audience. Now I just want to write articles poking fun at the entire genre.
Most anything I’ve done in my life worth a damn has many someone’s to thank. To borrow a line I’ve seen in 147,892 Medium articles I’m a “lifelong learner.”
I like to dive deep into the information and documentation of those teaching and preaching about the areas of life I am doing.
I’ve found mentors in people I’ve never met thanks to blogging and YouTube. …
Reflecting on our story in a new year.
As we cross over into into a new calendar year I tend to reflect rather than project. This year has been less than perfect for me but it has been catastrophic for millions of others. Since feeling that any misfortunes I may have had this year or in any of my 33 years are minor I force myself into feeling gratitude. That is what I should write here. I am thankful for having such fortune.
When I reflect I end up reading past events in my life as if I was writing…
What are we doing here?
A hear those five words a few times every week. The are uttered by a sixty something year old man that I am proud to call a coworker.
When he utters those words it’s not praise. He says them in his thick Portuguese ancient and it comes out something like ‘whut ah we duuuuiiinnn?’
Never is he questioning effort, but when we hear this we know our intent is being questioned.
To have intent is being able to ask yourself or have someone else ask you, what are you doing and be able to answer…
Jim Sestito
Building railroads by day. Teaching and writing about life and finance by night.
