Category Archives: life

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 …

March 30, 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 …

March 15, 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 …

March 13, 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 …

March 11, 2011 – 12:05 | By Si | Posted in communication, geek, 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 …

February 25, 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 …

September 7, 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. …

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

TV Trains You To Expect The Worst

I was watching an episode of United States of Tara the other day when I had something of a realisation. In case you don't know the show, here's the back story. Tara is a woman with dissociative identity disorder (aka multiple personalities). For the sake of TV, they are 5 (or 6) very distinct & …

June 16, 2010 – 11:18 | By Si | Posted in life, self-improvement | Comments (13)

Stop Bashing Your Head Against The Wall, Dipshit!

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It enables us to look back & say "Oh wow, that was a complete waste of a day.. or 10 years." Wouldn't it be useful to know in advance if something was going to be pointless? Or how about just at the time? Even cutting that wasted 6 months back to …

June 10, 2010 – 16:01 | By Si | Posted in health, life | Comments (9)

Talking By Text Sucks (& How)

Particularly in recent years, reading & writing have taken over our lives. We communicate primarily by text an increasing amount of the time. Facebook, Twitter, email, IM, SMS, blogs, forums, the list goes on. There are some very real problems with communicating by text. Asymmetry Unless both parties are typing an equal amount, any text based conversation …

June 7, 2010 – 13:28 | By Si | Posted in communication, life | Comments (19)