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Tag: lifestyle design

  • How To Live & Not Just Work

    Life is not something to be left for after you’re satisfied with your success. If you’re anything like me, ditching recreation and “low value activities” to eek out more achievement might sound familiar. I’ve talked a lot about how to recover better, work less and do more and optimize for happiness and fulfillment, but what…

  • The Myth Of Discipline Revisited

    Misappropriated discipline is the enemy of creativity. If we accept that success is being consistently good over a long period of time, how we produce quality consistently is the pressing question. Discipline is but one part of the toolkit for creating a life well lived, but like the old hammer and nail story it gets…

  • Busy: The Relationship Between Effort & Content Creation

    Sup peeps, hope you’re doing well. As an antidote to my horrible, unplanned hiatus from posting here I’ve been thinking about how to change my relationship with content creation and all of my hair-brain so called long-term goals. A number of years ago, for a variety of reasons, I was able to get a lot…

  • Retirement Revisited

    Despite my young age, retirement has long been a fascination of mine. Perhaps this makes sense given my interest in many topics generally associated with older demographics, but even since my elementary school days I’ve been thinking about the myth of retirement. Of course by “myth” in this context I don’t mean that retirement isn’t…

  • The Practical Search For Passion

    Reflecting on the many articles I’ve published to FourthEye, I realized that though I’ve spent a decent amount of time talking about the importance of passion and managing it to achieve success and fulfillment, I’ve spent relatively little time addressing how we identify our passion. While everybody and their grandmother at some point or another…

  • Distractions From The Main Plot

    It always feels like such an odd exercise to diminish the importance or usefulness of certain conversations or topics, and yet to the end of effective resource management such a task seems necessary. In this short piece, my hope is to illuminate some of how I think about choosing topics and also cover issues that…

  • My Take On Plan B’s

    Something that comes up a tremendous amount, is the topic of what we actually do if “it doesn’t work out.” Being that this question is pretty important for those that try to run their own shows, this has been something that I’ve put a lot of resources into thinking about. In part because at some…

  • The One Person Theater: On Wearing Many Hats

    Glancing at some of the older posts on FourthEye I thought that it might be valuable to create a follow up to my piece on polymathism, something that I personally interact with a fair amount. In this article, I’d like to go over some of the things that I think are paramount for those that…

  • Lifestyle Design Part 3: Setting The Stage For Quality Work

    Originally, I hadn’t planned to associate this piece with lifestyle design when I first wrote about the ideas I’m about to share here, but I thought that much of what I’m gonna touch on is so fundamental to a quality life, that it may as well be put in the lifestyle design series. The basic…

  • An Introduction To Polymathism

    Something that I’ve been toying with for a long time is the idea of wearing many hats, so to speak. Even with the rise of people working from home and things such as freelancing that we see in the modern world, the idea of pursuing many careers at the same time or exploring different creative…