Thoughts on life, travel, and fatherhood
Wednesday May 29, 2024 // Mid-Afternoon
Do you ever have those moments where you know you should be productive so you get to work, but on the completely wrong thing knowing full well it’s not the task you should be doing? That’s what I’m doing right now.
Tuesday January 31, 2023 // Early Afternoon
This is probably cheesy but lately I’ve been in a funk and I’ve been working on a strategy to “break the funk gunk”. Yeah, it’s cheesy.
In my last post I talked about being in the thick of it – bogged down by a billion things, mostly out of my control. This has had a direct impact on my funk. My normal over-achieving self has been satisfied with achieving. I’m beaten down by life at the end of the day despite sitting at a desk in my home all day long in sweats and then playing Magna-Tiles with my three-year-old all evening. It feels like I’m Atreyu pulling Artax through the Swamps of Sadness trying to get myself to do the easiest tasks each day.
Sunday September 11, 2022 // Post Bedtime
The past several years I’ve been plagued by a recurring problem. My attention is split between 50 different things at one time. My path forward is split by an infinite amount of forks in the road. Each one twists and turns towards an endgame that I haven’t defined.
Wednesday February 16, 2022 // Bedtime
I don’t recall why. Maybe it was a Calm meditation. Or a passage in a book I’m reading. A comment in a show. Who knows. But the other day something hit me — I’ve been putting off so many things.
Saturday October 19, 2019 // Evening Nap
I came across something the other day that’s stuck with me from one of those inspirational tweets or Instagram posts that magically appears in your feed without you asking for it. The exact quote escapes me but the gist of it was this:
Imagine your to-do list is blank. Literally nothing on it; like it never existed to begin with. Nothing from the past matters. Nothing you told yourself that you’d get done at some point matters. You can choose anything you’d like to work on. What is it?
This idea has been sitting with me, fermenting in the back of my brain over the past few days.
What would I work on if there was a blank canvas in front of me?