Intentionally Vicarious: Having more fun than anyone else you know! - Self-Actualization - Lifelong Learning - Think About It - Explore - Try New Things - Life A Full Life
You’ve got a good job, you’re paying all the bills, you’ve got awesome people in your life... Now what? What else??? What next??? How on earth do you sort through all the options of fulfilling, exciting things you COULD do? You gotta’ be intentionally vicarious... Listen to in-depth stories of what other successful people are doing to reach self-actualization!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
Quick Thought 27 - Booze Or Coffee???
Booze and coffee each have distinct purposes. Apply them wisely!
Episdoe 78 - Starving & Getting Eaten By Bears
An old friend and colleague of mine e-mailed me with an intriguing observation. “100 years ago, if you did not have common sense and situational awareness, you would starve or be eaten by a bear. Nat…
Episode 77 - Ignoring the 10th Amendment
For all practical purposes, the 10th Amendment - which limits the power of the federal government - does not exist. What should we do about it? Convene a Convention of States maybe?
Quick Thought 24 - Your Spouse
First it'll make you feel good... then humble...
Political Power Grabs
Centralization of political power is an eerily potent and scary phenomenon. There’s a tipping point somewhere that marks severe trouble. The poster child for centralization run amok, of course, is th…
Quick Thought 22 - Not enough time...
The great conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein really got it right when he said...
"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
Washington, DC's Reality Leak
Reality Leakage: Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a Democrat who held significant positions in the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford administrations. He also represented New York in the U.S. Senate from …
Quick Thought 21 - NASA's Sense of Humor
Who'da thunk it? NASA egg-heads with a sense of humor!
Episode 74 - The Stunning Stupidity of Common Sense Gun Control
Common Sense is common. It’s Common - Typical - Average - Run-Of-The-Mill. By definition, if something - anything - is common, virtually everybody has it. There is nothing the least bit special about…
Quick Thought 20 - Survivors
Is it the smartest that survive? The strongest? Nope. Think again...
Bonus Episode - A Conversation With Paul Nicholson
I had the good fortune to catch up with a colleague and friend from the past. Paul Nicholson is a Zoho ONE Authorised Training Partner among a host of other things... Paul & I got connected in a bit …
Episode 73 - Happy Me
It’s no secret that I claim to be having more fun than anyone else I know. Yes, quasi-tongue-in-cheek, but the fact is, it genuinely is an important life-goal for me, and I take having fun seriously.
Quick Thought 22 - Cooking
If you're going to cook, cook like W.C. Fields.
I Don’t Like Golf All That Much
No, I don't like golf all that much. THAT said, each year for the last 28 years, I've gotten together with three buddies for a golf trip. Maybe it's not about golf...
Quick Thought: Congress & Kindergarten
Make Congress suffer the consequences of their own sadly childish behavior.
Why Are Cities More Liberal Than Rural Areas?
Of the 56 cities in the U.S. with more than 250,000 residents, only 11 are conservative compared to 45 that are liberal. Why is that???
Quick Thought 19 - Magic!
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Episode 70 - Abolishing the Electoral College is a Stunningly Bad Idea
Without 2 Senators per state and the Electoral College, the U. S. Constitution would NEVER have been ratified. NEVER! And the dream of a United States would have fallen apart before it ever really go…
Quick Thought 18 - You can't...
Worry about something you can do something about!