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Stock and Flow
In the book Happy Money, a part that stood out for me was when he simplified wealth into two simple parts –…
Spending 3 Months A Year With People You Don’t Like
Working days are the days in the year that aren’t holidays or weekends. In the United States there are 252 working days…
Regaining Weight Back
If I’m going to say anything about weight loss, I have to address this. If you’re in this place, I feel for…
Spiritual Constipation
So…if I check Facebook I swear I will see so many memes that quote “Live in the moment” “Live every day like…
Ways to Find Extra Energy
Over time I’ve noticed there were times I’ve had great energy and several times I felt really sluggish. Here are suggestions for…
How To Remain Positive When It Sucks
There can be hits that negatively effect your life situation – your finances/intimate relationships/health. Maybe a mistake you made or an error…
Heaven On Earth
I can’t tell you what your heaven is or when it is going to come or how it will look. However, I…
Fat Does Not Equal Lazy
Boy boy boy will society put this on you. I’ve heard people say “When people see you as fat, they automatically assume…
Simple Ways to Contribute
Don’t Save Money Out of Anxiety
This is an excerpt from Happy Money that hit me like a ton of bricks. Don’t Save Money Out of Anxiety Many…
Does High Quantity Lessen Quality with Creative Work?
A concern with a lot of quantity with creative work is…will the quality go down? I saw this question posed by someone…
Pushing Past Your Limit
I remember in high school I wanted to try football. I did well academically, but always wanted to test myself to see…
Scared Shitless
Some of the most amazing memories can happen when you’re willing to be scared shitless…when you have a good hunch that facing…
New Site Design
There’s still a few minor adjustments that need to me made, but I’ve installed a new WordPress theme – Maiden. I like…
You Have Permission to Feel Good
Boy…was it great when I listened to the commentary on The Secret DVD by Rhonda Byrne. I can still remember her saying,…
How I Learned to Be More Expressive
Where Creative Ideas Come From
I set an intention to publish content every day here on This is Badass. So far, so good. This intention stirs something…
Forgiveness is Badass
If you have resentments with people from your past, know that this resentment is not hurting them, it’s hurting you. Let them…
This Iguana is Officially Badass
How To Not Be So Serious
There is a time to laugh and play, and there is a time to be serious. It’s important to develop a discernment…
Thoughts after 33 Days of Blogging
It has been 33 days of publishing an article every day, and I wanted to share my thoughts on insights I’ve had….
Doing Boring Repetitive Work
One of the biggest disadvantages of doing boring, repetitive work for 40+ hours a week is that the world is changing so…
Slow Rider
Here is a snippet of a beat I ultimately want to get to final form and able to sell. I love creating…
How to Get to The Next Step
If you look at goal that you deem as “big”, there can be a tendency to want to jump to achieve it…
How to Build Momentum In Life
I always tell people if you want to know the secret to happiness, I can give it to you in one word:…
The Number One Rule of Badass
There is an unwritten rule of badass, and it makes sense. I think you’ll agree when you hear it. The rule is…you…
Being Authentic as an Employee
I declined an interview for a job today. Normally I would have accepted such an interview in hopes that I’d get this…
How To Be More Creative
If you find yourself bumping your head against a wall trying to create – I feel ya. I tried to make a…
Are You Happy With Your Purchases?
There was a point in time I was making car payments to a car I definitely couldn’t afford which ultimately led to…
Thoughts after 1000+ Food Deliveries
Door Dash and Favor are both P2P food delivery services. Between Favor (559 deliveries) and Door Dash (553 deliveries) I have done…
Thoughts after 19 days of blogging
Through these 19 days I’ve had the opportunity to re-engage with writing every day. There’s one big insight I’ve noticed. If there…
A trick to reduce decision fatigue
I first heard about decision fatigue from someone telling me our former president Barack Obama always wears the same suits. Then I…
A downside of dark, cold, and distant cool characters
Many times we see certain characters (or real people) portrayed in media somewhere and we want to take on parts of their…
Skill Building
I asked my mom why she put me in piano lessons as a kid, and she said it was her dream to…
Voluntary Car Repossession
About an hour ago, they towed my 2015 Dodge Charger from my driveway to some lot somewhere. This car has been great…
Music Exploration – 30 Artists, 90+ new songs
I decided that last quarter I wanted to do an exploration of music I’d never heard before. I decided to try at…
Charity Water
Charity Water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. The video below pulled me in…
Where to rent a swimming pool
Damnit I love these P2P services. I just stumbled on Swimply. Where has this been all my life? Now you can rent…
Know Your Game
For some context in the video below, former players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) interview Kobe Bryant (one of the best…
The Rise of Live
I’m seeing a trend where there are lots of live broadcasts where business owners / creators are going live and interacting with…
What Slows Productivity Down
I see so many, “how to be more productive” articles, but I don’t ever see this problem framed as “you’re naturally productive,…
The Best Book I’ve Ever Read
The Power of Now This book might have singlehandedly be responsible for making me a positive person no matter what. “All negativity…
How to lose weight if I can’t stop eating
A big insight I realized was…WHAT I was eating was waaaay more important than how much I was eating. If I continued…
How to get out of my head!
There can be a tendency to be stuck in your head – especially if you’re a really logical and analytical or if…
Stop making fun of me! A solution to handle being made fun of for being overweight as a kid
The only thing that can quickly bring about tears from me is thinking of the experience of overweight kids today in school….
How to lose weight without feeling hungry
I went to a 12-step program for food addiction. I believe one reason why it delivered such great results was that it…
How to lose weight when you can’t exercise
Knowing that I could lose weight without exercising really opened my eyes to what was causing the weight gain and how much…
“I’m fat” is not true.
One insight I received after losing about 110 pounds (332lbs to 220lbs) is the constant thought “I’m fat”…that society drilled into me…was…
I feel like “blah”
I remember telling my 12-step program sponsor one day (who I talked to every day at 6:30 AM) that I was feeling…
365-day Challenges are Badass?
I don’t fuckin know wtf. I’ve never done this before. This is scary as hell! Again…WTF BUT I will be posting every…
Social Skills are Badass
Social skills are badass and having a badass social circle is badass. Problems get solved way easier Relationships overall are a big…
Airbnb is Badass
You don’t like where you’re staying? or ya just wanna get away? Well…isn’t choosing a destination a step closer to actually getting…
Responsibility is Badass
Damn. Here’s a big step in maturity – acceptance and welcoming of responsibility. Taking low level jobs? Stopping the business you created…
Flexibility is Badass
After working years in stuffy, boring ass 9-5 jobs, I decided to drop that rigid slave-like schedule and prioritize flexibility in my…
Giving 100 Percent Effort is Badass
When someone says they want something, and you see them giving their all out effort to get it, don’t you just want…
Mental Programming is Badass
So I’m guessing I’ve listened to Brian Tracy’s Eat That Frog about 20 times this month. It’s the only audio book I’m…
Authority is the Essence of Badass
The ability to author your life the way you want it is the damn foundation of badass. When you say “Hey, I…
Studies Ain’t Badass
When I see the words “Studies have shown….” or I hear anything about any study they did at any college – something…
Being Overly Balanced Isn’t Badass
Yes, you are centered. Yes it’s calming. Yes it’s necessary to rebalance after chaos. But too much balance is boring and boring…
Aviator Sunglasses are Badass
Something like these. They can’t be cheap though. I’m thinking of cheap not in terms of price but in terms of being…
The Man Behind the Suit is Important to Determine the Badassness of the Suit
On the surface, suits are marketed to be badass, but not all suits are created equal. If you’re wearing a suit to…
Badass Overload
Damn there’s so much Badass shit in the world! There’s also a lot of shit that’s marketed to be badass, so it appears…
Too Much Badass is Not Badass
Listen. If there’s badass all over this site, then it actually takes away from the badassery of it all. Too much of…
Outsourcing is Badass
Outsourcing is badass because struggling with something you don’t want to struggle with is NOT badass. There are people out there that…
Badass Characters
Here are some badass characters I like(d). Batman would be on here if not for that damn cape. His cape killed everything….