What percentage of time do you spend doing and creating vs consuming, thinking and planning?It should be high on the side of doing and creating.Doing and creating: good.Consuming, thinking and planning: not so good.You need… Read More »The Do Percentage
Wikipedia says hormesis is “the term for generally favorable biological responses to low exposures to toxins and other stressors”.2 examples of stressors that we endure regularly in our lives are flu shots and exercise. We… Read More »Remember Hormesis When Doing Something New
Just one more blog post….Just one more email…..Just one more book…..Just one more question….Just one more….We don’t need one more anything. What we need is to start.
Sometimes I get stuck thinking about all the cool things I want to do in the near future. Having big goals is a requirement for doing big things but there’s an important other half to… Read More »The Big List of Awesome Stuff
Time for a new theme on the site! I’ll be filling out this site with my latest projects in the next few weeks.
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve written over here. So much going on at PureOutside.I’ve been talking to people about Life Lists lately and remembered that this one needed some attention once in a… Read More »A Life List Update: Sailing Adventures
I was thinking about minimalism a lot lately because of people Colin and Everett and how I can apply it to my life. These guys love living with less than 100 things.Although it’s alluring to… Read More »Questions About “Stuff”
Whenever I’m stuck creatively, I head over to my R&D department to see what they’ve got cooking.What I mean by that is that I start thinking like I’m in the R&D Department instead of the… Read More »Stuck? Take an R&D Day
It’s not. Just not just the point and shoot kind of thing that most people think it is.Take Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO for instance. Three things that most people haven’t even heard of. Yet… Read More »Why Photography is Not Simple
It’s done!It was actually done in September 2 years ago but I pushed the post aside and totally got distracted with other things.My buddy, Ryan and I competed as a two person team in the Cumberland… Read More »My First Adventure Race