Pursuing The Perfect Album The quest for the perfect album … is never ending. The quest for the perfect album is an endeavor pursued by listeners and musicians alike. Artists want to make it and fans want to hear it. This quest is what motivates me to go outside
A War Is Going On In Your City It was 9 o’clock at night and I had just finished a drive around my neighborhood area attacking, hacking, building and linking things together. A few others and I have been in a battle with others in the area for a while now.
Hiking/Camping Snowbank Lake Hiking Trip - 2013 This is a never before published post of my experience I wrote about back in late 2013. I'll soon be publishing a new post about our recent adventure on this
Apple Event Summary & Thoughts I watched the Apple Event today and thought I'd do a short write up of what I thought and saw. There wasn't anything surprising from today's event. We all knew the iPhone would be refreshed and that Apple would be announcing wearables. It would
Entrepreneurship Deciding Your Best Entrepreneurial Pursuit IntroYour time is valuable. It is the most valuable resource you have as it is non-renewable. Do you have enough time in the day to do everything you want to?
Entrepreneurship Spreading Yourself Too Thin: Hobbies IntroYour time is valuable. It is the most valuable resource you have as it is non-renewable. Do you have enough time in the day to do everything you want to?
Improve Your Productivity with these Seven Tips FireHave you ever started newspaper on fire with a magnifying glass? If you’re familiar with this, you’ve figured out that it requires you focus the sunlight onto a
How To Add Seven Years To Your Life Optimization is the name of the game here. You're going to want to look everywhere for ways that you can optimize processes and procedures in the name of time savings
Hiking/Camping Wild River State Park One Night Camp Last Friday, I set off on a one night camping trip with a couple friends. Our destination was Wild River State Park in Minnesota. I had camped here once before,
Are Your Online Images Revealing More Than You Want? We’ve probably all heard it by now. Metadata is data about data. It can be applied to any file. It doesn’t matter if it’s a photo, book,
Entrepreneurship Keep The Ball Rolling By Writing Your Ideas Down Write.Write down ideas when you have them. You’re more than likely to forget them if you don’t. This isn’t only helpful for remembering ideas but also
Hand-Bound Journals The DecisionWhen recently making the decision to make more with my hands, I figured that creating my own hand-bound journals would be a good option. This idea was appealing to
The Power Of Paper - Why I'm Not Strictly Digital & You Shouldn't Be Either With everything going digital and many people being on a computer all day at work, it's easy to get stuck into a paperless mindset. I'll tell you what though... paper
When Efficiency Turns To Laziness Finding new ways to increase efficiency can be beneficial. At some point though, it can turn to laziness. This is what happened to me. ###The Realization A few weeks ago I realized that I had been trying to make everything as efficient as I
My (Simple) Task Workflow I [recently posted](http://flyinthecoop.com/how-i-fixed-my-task-lists/) about Patrick Rhone's Dash/Plus System for task tracking. Today I'm sharing how I've implemented this system into my existing workflow. Each morning,
How Language Changed Trash Language is a powerful tool that can evoke emotion and thought. That is why I love seeing it used for good. We're familiar with trash receptacles scattered on crowded city
How I Fixed My Task Lists I didn't know I had a problem with the way I tracked my daily tasks, until I found [Patrick Rhone's "Dash/Plus" system](http://patrickrhone.com/2013/04/22/the-dash-plus-system/). I no longer feel (as) scatterbrained because information on each task presented in a
Value of a Purchase (I spent a few minutes searching for anything that talked about this or studied it and came up empty handed.) Lately I haven't been able to get into music the way that I did when I was younger. I used to appreciate it and
Achievement Badges ## The Project An iPad competition was held at work that encouraged any interested employees create a technology or concept to better our company or current service/application. The winner was
