Category Archives: life

Day 14,610*

I also did a digital detox — no internet, phone off, just BEING. It was a great call. Also, a haircut. It's gone from unpredictable yet interesting to really quite funky. I do love when a hairdresser manages to surprise me with awesomeness. Later, drinks at The Attic (upstairs from The Black Pearl Bar) — which …

06/May/2011 – 00:12 | By Si | Posted in life | Comments (6)

Urban Misogi

Tonight was an excellent night for some urban misogi. Some back story. Last week or so, I biked into town to hang out with a friend. While we were getting a bite to eat, some 15 year old kids decided to trash my bike. They stole the seat, lights & reflectors, basically rendering it un-ridable. …

02/May/2011 – 00:28 | By Si | Posted in life | Comments (7)

How To Love Your Life

I've been giving quite a lot of thought to the saying "What you resist persists" (variously attributed to either Carl Jung, or Werner Erhard). The logic of this is reasonably straight forward. Our brains don't understand negatives particularly well. This is why when you drive a car, you look where you want to go, not …

17/Apr/2011 – 00:38 | By Si | Posted in healing, life, self-improvement | Comments (8)

How To End Procrastination Forever

I had a realisation about procrastination that I just had to share. In essence, procrastination is the end result of us having an aversion (or several) to the task at hand. If you let go of all of those aversions, well, there'll be nothing to stop you doing it, right? Ok, so there are several ways to …

30/Mar/2011 – 12:26 | By Si | Posted in life, self-improvement | Comments (6)

My Beautiful Dojo

I thought I'd share where I train Aikido four days a week. It's one of the most beautiful spots I know of in Melbourne. This was taken in the middle of the day, so normally when we train there's a lot more shade than this. Given that it hits 45degC (113F) here, training in the …

15/Mar/2011 – 23:39 | By Si | Posted in life | Comments (5)

TV Is Heroin Crossed With Hypnosis

I haven't owned a TV in almost 20 years. I don't miss it at all. Note that I didn't say I don't watch TV. I and everyone I know does. TV is everywhere these days: your phone; the internet; public spaces;  download & watch it on your computer. The only real changes are the increased ease of …

13/Mar/2011 – 10:07 | By Si | Posted in life, self-improvement | Comments (9)

Are You Using The Internet, Or Is The Internet Using You?

I've been giving my internet use a bit of thought recently. I realised (wild generalisation alert!), there are two primary ways I use the internet: To waste time To find information and, of course, a few secondary ways: To build, create, produce, expand (eg, write a blog post, build a business, send love to people) To …

11/Mar/2011 – 12:05 | By Si | Posted in communication, life, self-improvement | Comments (3)

My Life's Purpose: Loving Through Service

In Oct 2009, I started Twit Cleaner. This business has been through some ups & downs, but over the last year or so I noticed myself disconnecting almost completely. I'd lost all motivation for it, and for life in general. I've kept working, of course, but my heart just hasn't been in it. I knew (some …

25/Feb/2011 – 15:51 | By Si | Posted in life, self-improvement | Comments (8)

Living Off The Grid

The other night I went to hang out with a friend's dad who has lived off the grid for 20 years. I first started hearing about this sort of thing in detail shortly before the Y2K debacle. Lots of tech guys who knew way too much got super convinced that the end of the world was …

07/Sep/2010 – 05:39 | By Si | Posted in home, life | Comments (9)

How To Never Feel Rejected Again

I'm finding that when I get the same thing occurring in many areas of my life within a very short period of time it's time for me to learn a very specific lesson. Recently I found myself feeling rejected, in various ways, in 6 or 7 different situations over the span of a week or so. …

22/Jun/2010 – 09:46 | By Si | Posted in communication, life, self-improvement | Comments (35)