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No One’s Harder On Me Than ME.

31 Things I Know Now That I'm 31- 10 — No One's Harder On Me Than ME.

Last updated on April 30th, 2021 at 03:24 pm

In my ideal world, I’d be blogging every day with months of content queued up so I could spend my days exploring other interests, and living my life like a normal person—like those people I see on Netflix who go to bed at reasonable hours and look so well-rested when they get into the office in the morning.

I wouldn’t be plagued by piles of ideas large enough to keep a fire going a few nights, thinking all these half-written posts good enough to start from… but usually just ending up with more half-written posts.

I’d never suffer bouts of writer’s block, feeling like I’ve said everything worth saying with a tired and heavy soul unable to keep up.

I’d never feel overwhelmed by all this work that feels undone, chasing after resolution that constantly feels out of reach, taunting me with visions of what life could be like if I could just get my act together. I feel like there’s just so much I could do if the cards played out a slightly different way, not making it as hard to get things done in a life trying to pull me in so many directions.

But this is the life I have, and the hand dealt to me to live it. It’s up to me to do what I will with it all, using every last thing I have in me to do the very best I can with what days I have.

Ain’t no one gonna make your life easier for you but you.

CONTINUE READING: The post where I salute my haters and give them some solid advice—to CHECK themselves before they WRECK themselves. “No One’s Harder On Me Than ME.”

The Practice of Patience (Playing the Long Game)

31 Things I Know Now That I'm 31- 9 — The Practice of Patience - Learning to Play the Long Game

Last updated on March 6th, 2021 at 02:41 am

In the #BloggerLife, I need to accept that success won’t come overnight. I’ve never been the best at exercising patience, but if I’m looking to build something that’ll last and make its mark on the world around it, I need to build it right, giving it whatever time and effort it needs to grow into something magnificent.

To this end, I often tell people I’m working with a 25-year plan. Oprah was around my age when she started the Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago, a then-little known radio personality who producers were giving a shot with a regular TV time slot to build her audience. Through the decades that followed, she built that chance into the empire we know today, with millions clinging to her every word as she shares intimate moments with some of the most powerful and influential people known today!

That’s how I see my brand—something eventually growing beyond the bounds of a blog, letting me tell stories that people wouldn’t hear otherwise. Even in the moments where the momentum’s at a standstill, the Gmail inbox devoid of anything interesting and the brain struggling to come up with an original thought, I’m learning more and more that there’re only 24 hours every day, and with the few available to hustle on the side diminishing as I grow older, I need to appreciate what I did accomplish in a day—not lament the things I didn’t.

CONTINUE READING: When I asked myself why I was in such a rush and came up short for answers. “The Practice of Patience (Playing the Long Game)”

Find Your Mountaintop.

31 Things I Know Now That I'm 31- 7 - Find Your Mountaintop

Last updated on April 6th, 2021 at 01:06 am

Everyone should have at least one experience that’s truly for themselves—something utterly indelible from their life story that lays the foundation for everything to happen from that point forward… the stuff of epiphanies. Too often, we take our lives for granted—too many of us have grown accustomed to having things simply handed to us, no longer fit to fight for anything we really want from our lives. We simply expect that water comes from the tap when we turn the faucet, or that the Internet will load blazingly fast when we use it. In the “developed world”, we’ve become soft. Lazy. Woefully complacent, quietly accepting mediocrity as our standard, not fighting for something more.

Me—I had to climb 19,000 feet to find my experience, my body beaten and battered, awash with the unfiltered rays of the sun as I realized something that’s spurred me forward ever since —

“If I can do this, I can do anything.”

CONTINUE READING: The power that climbing Africa’s tallest peak gave me to live a great life! “Find Your Mountaintop.”

Subway Canada Helps Me #BuildAWinner | #CarlsCrew Wrap-Up!

Last updated on November 4th, 2020 at 02:50 am

So it’s late April and we’re on the other end of the Carl’s Crew challenge sponsored by Subway Canada. Six weeks later, I’ll admit—I’m not much better than when I started. I’m still up at all hours working on the #BloggerLife, trying to turn all these ideas into… something. I still stress eat on the rough days at work, wolfing down Popeye’s three-pieces on the days that particularly suck. Life’s been dizzying lately, and while I’ve got a whole heap of reasons to take better care of myself, I repeatedly fail, continually choosing immediate gratification over long-term benefits.

I want to try, though. I’m a father now, and my son will pattern behaviour from what he sees around him. If he becomes a workaholic, it’ll be my fault. It he eats junk all the time, it’ll be my fault. I need to make better choices now to make the best possible future for him — and to make sure I’m part of it!

So even though I wasn’t being all that I could during the six-week challenge, I know there’re things I can take from the experience, slowly applying them to my life to make the right changes.

CONTINUE READING: What I learn from each week in Carl’s Crew—and a GIVEAWAY!!! “Subway Canada Helps Me #BuildAWinner | #CarlsCrew Wrap-Up!”

GIVEAWAY POST: Johnson’s So Much More—or—How I Learned to Stop Slacking and Love Bath Time

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I’ve never been a huge fan of bath time, but I’m warming up to it!

In Casa de Palmer, when dinner’s done you have a choice—you either wash the dishes or give the baby a bath. Perhaps in search of what alone time I can find, I often choose dishes, unwinding after the work day and all its stressed.

But that’s stupid—I’m making the wrong choice every time, and deep inside, I know it.

CONTINUE READING: Learning about the benefits of baby’s bath time and, of course, a GIVEAWAY! “GIVEAWAY POST: Johnson’s So Much More—or—How I Learned to Stop Slacking and Love Bath Time”
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