Achievement

What do our achievements matter–for us, for others? Can life be less achievement-driven and still matter / be meaningful?

assortment of ice cream cones laid out on parchment paper with various toppings, sticky like the fly paper of midlife crisis

I’m Stuck, You’re Stuck, We’re All Stuck, so…Let’s Go Get Ice Cream? 

/ 2 Comments / Achievement, Dreams, goals, and plans, Success and failure /

Confession: I’ve been avoiding this blog. But it weighs on me—maybe not as heavily as an albatross, maybe more like a spunky crow, that squawks in my ear about how much money I paid to sustain this site, gives me ideas for posts, grunts that I’m not writing them, and if I’m writing them, that […]

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Lake among mountains where I camped on my 39th birthday

Taking Inspiration from the Mysterious Ways and Play of Ideas

/ Achievement, Dreams, goals, and plans, Fostering creativity, The daily struggle for self-betterment /

I thought my idea was pretty clever. I knew it was impractical. And so when the older, retired lawyer cast a bemused, mildly exasperated glance over at his older, retired paralegal wife after I shared my idea with them, I wasn’t surprised. My idea was based on my experience on mountain summits. Unless I’m skiing,

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