I’ll be the first to admit - I’ve become an assessment addict lately. I’ve taken every self-assessment I can get my hands on, starting with Myers Briggs, the book StrengthFinders 2.0 and most recently a fantastic online tool called the VIA Institute on Character - Signature Strengths survey. In the past, I spent a lot […]

I first saw this image on a blog called Power of Mortality: it’s a picture of 936 “blobs” or dots that represent the average number of months in a person’s life. Seeing it visually is very powerful - it caused me to really question what I’m doing with the minutes, days, and weeks contained in […]

Setting goals is easy. Pick something you want to do or have and follow the SMART formula. Sticking to the goals you’ve set is an entirely different story.
Some goals are slippery - they never really seem graspable, and before you know it you’ve forgotten all about them. Really meaningful goals are sticky - they take […]

I’ve neglected posting to the food category of this blog, mostly because I’m a terrible cook and spoiled by Google food. That said, I just got a reader tip about a fantastic recipe search engine called Super Cook: Recipe Search, Served Well Done.
The site allows you to search for recipes based on ingredients that you […]