The beginning of 2008 has been a strange year for me. Every year, every person I know sets New Years Resolutions. Within two weeks, no one is talking about them anymore because they have all failed. This goes for me as well.
This year, I wasn’t going to set have resolutions, I was setting for [...]
It’s sad to say, but in the short amount of time I’ve been writing this blog I’ve had many bursts and lulls. I’ve been thru many spurts of writing frequently and then, like now, it’s been almost 10 days since i last posted.
Right now, I’m searching for my motivation. I know it happens to every [...]
Paying my Self-less. My self less. Self less. Selfless. The idea behind Paying my Selfless isn’t about paying yourself first. It isn’t about paying yourself less. It’s about the idea that we are a part of something bigger - a small part, but a part nonetheless. Sometimes to get the correct perspective on this larger [...]
Ok, so it’s more of a lack of a writing schedule that has affected Lernr.com. I had read a lot of buzz about a more lenient writing schedule, and, like many people who have experimented with more time between posting, have had a negative impact on this blog.
The idea is that giving yourself more [...]
Our lives are overflowing with information. Everywhere we look we are being screamed at by all sorts of media: books , movies, magazines, blogs, podcasts, newspapers, TV shows, and much more.
At some point we have to make a decision about what to do with it all. We have to either turn it off and throw it away, ignoring it all because we can't take anymore. Or we have to sort the wheat from the chaff, figure out what it is telling us, consider what we can learn from it, and implement that practices that can make us better.
Lernr is about that process of learning what we can from different sources and applying it to our lives.
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
~ Mark Twain