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The Guide: Mapping the Way
2025-06-09
Swamped in projects, lacking expertise and experience? Discover how to be a guide and hero in your story. Our aim is to defeat villains, build trust, and inspire others with practical steps.
The Hero: Rising to the Challenge
2025-06-02
Embrace your inner hero by facing challenges like self-doubt and deadlines with action. Grow your "hero muscles" and inspire others.
The Villain: Naming the Enemy
2025-05-26
Feeling blocked by time, doubt, or obstacles? Name your villain and become the hero of your story. Learn how challenges reveal your goals and fuel growth in this trilogy’s opener.
Intro: Heroes, Villains, and Guides
2025-05-19
Be the hero and guide of your life’s story. Face villains, chase goals, and inspire others in this trilogy. With cues from Lord of the Rings and Star Wars enjoy the epic journey of your life!
Friction: Roadblocks, Speedbumps, & Guardrails
2025-05-12
Become a friction-fixer! Introducing the PRESS framework! Guardrails, roadblocks, and speedbumps can be your ally. Take the steps to ensure they are.
Environmental Friction – Make Your Space, Find Your Flow
2025-05-05
Struggling with distractions or uninspired by your space? Environmental Friction explores how your surroundings impact focus and creativity. Learn to spot chaos or blandness, and get practical tips to...
Strategic Friction - Look Before You Leap
2025-04-28
Strategic friction: Intentional pauses to improve decisions. Balance thoughtful reflection with progress to avoid mistakes and ensure quality outcomes in work and life.
Social Friction – The People Problem (and Solution)
2025-04-21
Social friction—the tension in human interactions—can stall progress or sharpen ideas. Learn how to balance it to transform people problems into solutions.
Cognitive Friction – The Mental Load of Unfinished Business
2025-04-14
Cognitive friction: mental strain from too many tasks or too little focus. Learn to manage it with lists, priorities, and small wins to stay sharp and productive.
Communication Friction – Signal to Noise Ratio
2025-04-07
Communication friction: too much noise buries the message, too little signal creates gaps. Learn to balance clarity and brevity for better outcomes.
Decision-Making Friction – The Cost of Too Many Choices
2025-03-31
Decision-making friction is the mental drag from too many choices or too few.
Bureaucratic Friction – Guardrails, not Quicksand
2025-03-24
Definition: Bureaucratic friction involves policies, processes, and approvals that either ensure quality or create slowdowns—guardrails that guide or quicksand that strangles.
Friction: Friend & Foe
2025-03-17
Friction can grind you down or hold you steady— it’s all in how you handle it. Explore "The Friction Project" by Sutton & Rao in Part 1 of our 9-part series. Learn what friction is, how to spot it, an...
12 Rules and a Deeper Truth
2025-03-10
Discover the deeper truths behind Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life. Beyond self-help, it’s a call to responsibility, honest relationships, and meaningful goals—echoing a higher purpose. Explore how...
Curiosity and Pi (Lots of Pi)
2025-03-03
Pi Day is approaching! The past months have been all about learning—self-publishing, app development, and blogging. I’m reflecting on curiosity, creativity, and bringing ideas to life!
12 Rules - Coda
2025-02-24
Hard questions illuminate the path to growth. Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life challenges us to ask and answer with honesty, forging a framework for becoming—not just being.
Rule 12 - Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional
2025-02-17
Work life, social life, family—each has its own distinct goals and objectives. Learn how Jordan Peterson’s Rule 12 offers insights into navigating limitations, challenges, and meaningful relationships...
Rule 11 - Danger Is My Middle Name
2025-02-10
Pushing limits fosters growth. From bike jumps to hockey checks, I learned that strength without control is chaos, but strength with control is power. Inspired by Rule 11, this post explores why takin...
Rule 10 - Negotiation 101
2025-02-03
Miscommunication leads to frustration, wasted effort, and missed opportunities. Precision in speech fosters trust, clarity, and collaboration. Before negotiating expectations, we must first understand...
Rule 9 - "Temba, his arms wide"
2025-01-27
Fostering genuine understanding takes effort. Ongoing communication and a shared story is essential for understanding and working toward shared goals.
Rule 8 - Turnip Fluff
2025-01-20
Honesty is a skill, and like any skill, it requires practice—even in the most unexpected situations. Such practice changes us at a fundamental level, allowing us to become who we can become, reaching ...
Rule 7 - Bargaining with the Future
2025-01-13
Jordan Peterson’s Rule 7: "Pursue What Is Meaningful, Not What Is Expedient," emphasizes the importance of sacrifices that serve long-term, meaningful goals over short-term gratification. By resisting...
Rule 6 - It's Not You, It's Me
2025-01-06
Dive into Jordan Peterson's Rule 6: Set Your House in Perfect Order Before You Criticize the World. Life’s challenges are inevitable, but personal responsibility and small, actionable steps can transf...
Rule 5: I Really Want to Like You
2024-12-30
Jordan Peterson’s Rule 5 isn’t just for parents—it's a philosophy that applies to anyone navigating relationships, leadership, or teamwork. Reflect on the value of clear expectations and the impact of...
Rule 4 - Note to Self: Don't Waste My Time
2024-12-23
The only comparison worth making is between who you are today and who you were yesterday. At first glance, this might not seem like a tool to bring order to chaos—but as we explore it together, its po...
Rule 3: The Same, but Different
2024-12-16
The company you keep significantly shapes your character, values, and opportunities. Healthy friendships help us grow into better versions of ourselves and move closer to our goals.
Rule 2: That's a Problem for Future Peter
2024-12-09
What's worse than knowing that you're setting yourself up for difficult times?
Rule 1: Captain Pinchy
2024-12-02
Neither failure, nor success, are permanent. We can face life with humility and courage, balancing self-awareness with the determination to improve.
Rules, Rules, Rules!
2024-11-25
The best games have rules. Could you imagine playing a game without rules or without consequences for breaking them?
The MAIN THING Journal
2024-11-18
Establish the habit of journaling - quick and focused!
"Be Where Your Feet Are"
2024-11-11
A simple phrase struck me unexpectedly when I first heard it.
The Anti-Donut Activist
2024-11-04
How well do you understand your own goals?
Post Game Review: The Zen of Bowling
2024-10-28
Be on the lookout for like-minded followers!
Frame 10: The Perfect Game
2024-10-21
If you must judge yourself, judge yourself by where you were yesterday.
Frame 9: League Play
2024-10-14
Choose well. You will be impacted by those you surround yourself with.
Frame 8: Reserving a Lane
2024-10-07
Taking the first steps toward a meaningful pursuit.
Frame 7: The Empty Frame
2024-09-30
Failure can be a step toward refinement.
Frame 6: Bumpers
2024-09-23
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal"
Frame 5: The 7-10 Split
2024-09-16
Failure isn't fatal. It's just a frustrating setback. Embrace it, learn from it, and try again.
Frame 4: The Pocket
2024-09-09
The ability and willingness to adjust in the face of uncertainty and change.
What's With the Bird?
2024-09-02
Meet the BlahBird: Your Friendly, Noisy Companion
Frame 3: The Turkey
2024-08-26
Deliberate practice and specific preparation toward our goals.
Frame 2: The Ball
2024-08-19
Masterfully assembled, the hidden complexities impact our success!
Frame 1: The Benchmark
2024-08-12
Gauge the conditions and adjust the strategy!
Rolling with the Zen of Bowling
2024-08-05
The observations of a follower and an honorary bowling manager!
A Strange Hobby?
2024-07-29
"Play is the highest form of research, really"
Embrace Focus with Power Play Days
2024-07-22
Special days to focus on tasks that need dedicated attention.
IGGs: Incremental Growth Goals
2024-07-15
The power of small, potentially sustainable changes.
