perfectionism | perfectionism
Apr.26.2013
April 26
Imperturbable
Perfectionism is a cover, a blanket of lead; hard to move and rich with poison. What it tries to hide is my unwillingness to struggle and strive. It’s not a fear of failure, but the horror of success after a long hot...
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Apr.09.2013
At GlobalNiche, we're scrappy and we know it.
In this video clip my partner Tara explains how you too can benefit from "polishing in public".
We're committed to putting our work into the public sphere even if it's not exactly how we'd like it to be.
Since we're a new company pulling...
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Dec.24.2012
Middle age arrives not with a birthday, with 48 candles on an angel food cake, but with a sudden unbidden insight in the middle of a sleepless night. You roll over and eye the clock and see all at once that the phrase “anything is possible” is not true. That is, it is no longer true for you, if...
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Sep.29.2012
Okay, I surrender. I give up. It's all because of Andre.
Poor Andre.
He had great talent and skills, yet he wasn't winning and dominating as he could. Whatever was the problem?
Andre and his manager went to Brad to find out. Brad told him flat out, you're trying to be perfect and...
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Sep.06.2012
Turn rumination into acceptance. Upgrade your perfectionistic “shoulda, coulda, woulda” mantra with the word “buddha.” The word “buddha” means “awakened, enlightened” in Pali. Use this term in its lower-case connotation as a symbol of acceptance and appreciation of the natural...
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Jun.30.2012
None of us are perfect.
Such a statement should make sense to most of us. It should come to life as we read it.
I cannot do much but get a little better, never quite reaching the ultimate goal of perfection. I can operate as a perfectionist. That's not achieving perfection....
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Jan.26.2012
Eeee Gad...I lost a follower. I was so happy to have 75 now 74...oh well...
Been a bit sick this week with a throat infection or something. Wake up every morning with frogs croaking in my throat and feeling pretty rotten for a few hours then better. Think it is a viral thing as no fever just...
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Aug.22.2010
Arlington Avenue is a winding, 9% grade-steep street that snakes up the Southside hills of Pittsburgh. It is popular with local cyclists and happens to run right above my house on the slopes. It offers one of many amazing overlooks of the city but without the glitz of some of the more official...
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Jun.08.2010
“The Buddha lived in India five centuries before Jesus and almost two centuries before Aristotle. The first step in his belief system was to break through the black-and-white world of words, pierce the bivalent veil and see the world as it is, see it filled with “contradictions,’ with things and...
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Jun.04.2010
The human body is a “treasure-trove” of vibrations (1). “After all, our hearts beat, our lungs oscillate, we shiver when we are cold, we sometimes snore, we can hear and speak because our eardrums and larynges vibrate. The light waves which permit us to see entail vibration. We move by...
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