What Is A Sunk Cost + What It Means To You Sunk cost is a fascinating concept that’s been around for a while. While it’s original meaning isn’t all that exciting the implications of applying it to other areas of life is. If you’ve never heard of a sunk cost before reading this title you…
Category: Life Lessons
General Observations On Life’s Lessons
Why Don’t People Like Me – And What You Can Do About It
Why Don’t People Like Me Boy oh boy, if that’s a question you’re asking yourself it must be a bad day. Or maybe it’s how you feel all the time but I hope not. Most days I feel like at least some people like me but like everyone else, I have crappy days too. I…
Can I Become A Better Person
Can I Become A Better Person How’s that for a eye catching title? Can I become a better person. That really makes you stop and think. At least it would to me if I read that as I was skimming though Facebook or wherever it came across my radar. Or maybe you searched for this…
Teenage Addiction To Cell Phones – How Much Is Too Much?
Teenage Addiction To Cell Phones You’ve yelled for your teenage daughter to help you with something and as is usual, there’s no response. Once you finish up carrying all that stuff out to the garage (in 2 trips because nobody helped) you go looking for her. Surprise surprise, she’s on her bed staring slack jawed…
What To Do At Lunch – Try Some Variety
What To Do At Lunch Okay so here’s how the idea for this post happened. Yesterday was Friday. I was working out in the gym that we have at work around 11:00AM. The gym is right off the front door as you walk into the building. It’s easy to see people coming and going through…
When Can I Draw From My 401k
When Can I Draw From My 401k Hey man, I’ve been there. I don’t recall exactly when it was, maybe around 8-9 years ago. Obviously I was in some kind of a financial pinch. I think for one reason or another the amount of money coming into my household had dropped fairly significantly. And it…
Big Events Happening in 2018
Big Events Happening in 2018 You’re kind of a big deal, am I right? This is your life and 2018 was going to be the year you make the magic happen. You’re going to get in shape, you’re going to start that side consulting gig, you’re going to start volunteering more, etc. I think…
Narcissist Gaslighting Tactics
Narcissist Gaslighting Tactics In a recent post I introduced the concept of gaslighting. The term was born out of a 1940’s movie titled “Gaslight”. The movie is about a newly married couple and without going into lots of detail the husband is extremely manipulative. He slowly but surely makes his wife feel like she is…
How Can I Make New Friends
How Can I Make New Friends Several months ago I wrote a post titled “Why Don’t I have Any Friends”. I think it’s a pretty good post but here’s the funny thing. It is by far and away my most viewed page! That has honestly shocked me. What this also tells me is that there…
How Can I Get Smarter
How Can I Get Smarter I was having a conversation the other day with someone I work with. The discussion was about who we knew that was able to provide a service that we were looking for. It was something neither of us knew much about. The conversation then took a turn when the person…