Niall Doherty 1 Some kind of festival blocking the road, looks like a bunch of folks sitting, praying. We’re forced to turn back and find a convoluted route home. Compensation: along the back roads we see a spectacular black and red sky crowning a rice field. 2 It was a year ago yesterday that a buddy jumped …
1 Averaging less than 6 hours of sleep this week, less than 5 last night. It ain’t healthy or sustainable to be spending significantly more hours in front of my laptop every day than I spend sleeping. But it’s a trade-off I’m willing to accept for a while. 2 Two ways to build a 4-hour-workweek …
1 Spent pretty much the whole day working today. My “work” involved going through an affiliate marketing course and taking notes so I can write an in-depth review later. I was fully engaged, loving the process – digging, questioning, reasoning, investigating. 2 In my early 20’s I worked two jobs one summer. I remember telling …
1 Sluggish weekend after the madness, have to zone out and do nothing for a while, wait for the energy and motivation to kick back in. It’s tough, feeling like you’re working as hard as you can and it’s still not enough. Hard work is only part of the equation though. 2 One of those …
1 Published my best survey sites article ten weeks ago. Looks like it finally hit the first page of Google today. That’s the tricky thing with SEO – takes a while to find out if what you’re doing is working. I was ready to write off the survey site stuff as a waste of time. But now, …
You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties. AND at the same time… You must confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
1 Mentioned before how you get used to living with all kinds of bugs and lizards in Bali, hard to keep them out. Up before sunrise this morning, turned on the light in the kitchen, and got hit with a massive swarm of termites. Our house geckos were loving it. Me, not so much. 2 …
1 I’ve had 5 different needles in my body today. Rash on my arms and legs. Sweated through my bedsheets. Took four pills. Ate an egg sandwich. Watched a scary movie. Took a shower with my hand in a bag. Drank lots of water. Made countless trips to the bathroom. And I’m not allowed to …
1 Came home from a nice dinner at a nice restaurant to find a lizard the size of my hand in the kitchen, light blue with red spots, took a bite at a clothes hanger when we tried shooing him out the window. Now there’s a young Balinese man here with a plastic bag tied …
1 Pretty much all my adult life I’ve used an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Experimenting without one now. Set a timer when I go to sleep, stop it when I wake up, see how long I slept. In theory, my body should rest as much as it needs to, and wake …