Getting it right: dealing with “tomorrow”
I need a break from work stuff right now because my mind is wandering off to a post I wrote a while back about getting things right once and for all. At the time, it meant eating right and getting back in shape. And then, things took a turn in my life and spiraled downwards for a while. And I know exactly what went wrong: I hadn’t established a good foundation to be able to achieve my goals without letting personal things get in the way. If there are a few things that I’ve learned from my experience in business, it’s that you can’t accomplish everything in one...
Read MoreAnd then, everything was silent.
“How come you haven’t been blogging?” “I don’t know. Guess I’ve been too busy living.” I laid in bed last night and thought about the most eerie of things: death. I have moments like that sometimes, when out of the blue, I’ll start thinking about the fact that we all die, eventually. It’s an easy thing to forget about. It’s an even easier thing to not want to think about! I’m not a religious person. I don’t believe in God. I’m not spiritual either. I believe that when we die, we die. We expire. We...
Read MoreGetting it Right: Day One
Most of my adult life (in my thirties) has been spent trying to avoid suffering of any kind. When you’re younger, you feel invincible. And then adulthood hits you in the face and suddenly, everything the grown-ups told you is a lie and you’re having to figure out how to live your life with whatever skills you’ve acquired so far. Some people adjust well. Things fall into place, they have a job, a wife, kids, a dog, a house in the ‘burbs. They’ve never been homeless, never used the food bank, never had to “come out”, never used drugs, never...
Read MoreHow to get it right, for the last time.
I feel like I’m going in circles. Actually, I am. I want to make changes in my life – to better manage my schedule and to lose weight. Problem is: I keep making the same mistakes over and over again. And now I’m sipping from a can of Coke and thinking, ‘hey, this isn’t good for me at all’. What the hell? There must be a science to human motivation, no? I mean, at one point, someone must have studied this and found some evidence as to what influences people to make changes and to stick to those changes. But maybe we’re all so different that...
Read MoreMedicine should be more holistic
I’ve been implementing a lot of changes in my life as of late. Sometimes, I keep screwing up. Like in the way I eat. Sometimes that chocolate or that soda is just so appealing that I give in. Sometimes, I give in too much. I’ve written already about my teenage years, when I was a complete jock. But as an adult, I lost my interest in sports and slowly, I started to lead a pretty sedentary lifestyle. I work in IT. Everyone is pretty sedentary. And we tend to do what everyone else does: sit, get up for a washroom break, sit, eat lunch, sit. Life revolves around...
Read MoreI walked and walked and walked.. and woke up.
Last night, I had an intense dream. The kind of dream that leaves you wishing it had been real. The opposite of a nightmare. We don’t have a word for a really great dream, do we? Hmm. Anyway, because it wasn’t real, it made me sad. It was a dream about someone I loved. Alright, someone I love. So I texted her and after a few exchanges, I learned that she still thinks of me often… but that there’s talk about marriage and children with the man she’s with. So I did the responsible thing and told her I wouldn’t contact her again. That I was...
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