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Art of Manliness Readers: Welcome!
For everyone arriving at this blog from The Art of Manliness (a fantastic blog, if you don’t know about it), good to have you! My name’s Erik and I write about life goals. Feel free to look around–...
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Do All Your Dreams Start Tomorrow?
Photo credit: Susannah Conway (susannahconway.com) The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow. --Steven Pressfield Patrick Rhone, author of Enough and Mac...
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The Finishing School is starting in Boston!
Almost two years ago, I went to Seattle’s Zig Zag Cafe with a handful of friends, acquaintances, and strangers on a Wednesday night to discuss the things we most wanted to do in life. It was a group...
View ArticleProfiles in Awesomeness: An Introduction to Cal Newport
You should assume that any time I recommend a product or service on this blog that I'm being paid millions of dollars and flown out to cruises and conferences in all world's greatest warm-weather...
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Oh hey there, Austin, Albuquerque, and Boston– you now have Finishing Schools
Finishing Schools, dear readers– they are popping up everywhere. Groups of people meeting to hold each other accountable and help each other with the goals most important to them. It’s spreading....
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The Sorrows and Joys of the Bulldozer
Photo credit: Vinoth Chandar (flickr: vinothchandar) We hear a lot of hype about ideas. “Ideas can change the world”. Right. “Ideas can move mountains”. Ideas don’t move mountains, Peter Drucker...
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Making Things Happen is a Skill
Image credit: Sarah H. Dee (flickr: 31floors) In the two years that I’ve been running The Finishing School and preaching the gospel of Getting Out There and Doing Stuff, I’ve talked to a lot of people...
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If You Can’t Beat Them… Have Them Beat Each Other
Photo credit: Susannah Conway No one’s perfect, and while for the most part our various failings are viewed as obstacles to us achieving our goals, I want to take a different viewpoint here: each of...
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The Lion in the Wild
A lion I saw on safari in Tanzania almost exactly a year ago The last month, I’ve been just about incommunicado. There’s a good reason for this– I promise. Four weeks ago, I told my boss I was...
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New Tab, New You
This post is about a light-weight piece of software I wrote to help track a few things about me I’m interested in monitoring. It’s freely available (to use and modify) here. The NTNY screen in action,...
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