Are you getting everything you can out of this life?
A self-less, feel-good blog about love, life, and work by career coach and existential adventurer, Cliff Flamer
Moods are personified in babies. Babies don’t have filters. They don’t try to control their moods. We can learn something from this.
My youngest daughter freaked out after her mama hopped out of the car to go to a board meeting. She squealed as if someone had stabbed h… Read more...
I saw a Taylor Swift concert on TV the other night.
We didn’t mean to watch it; Amazon recommended it at the end of Mama Mia and then it just started playing. I’m not gonna lie. I loved it.
By the last song, my daughter was conked out, but I was wide awake, sitting in … Read more...
I went to an Escape Room the other day, which is essentially placing myself in a Heist Movie – a fantasy come true for me!
Upon going online to give this place 5 stars, I was disheartened by all the bad Yelp reviews: “Too easy, too hard, props need replacing, the layou… Read more...
Comedian George Carlin said, “I love individuals. I hate groups of people.”
Hate is a strong word, George, but I get the sentiment.
The things individuals value most about each other – Compassion. Empathy, Accountability, Love, Vulnerability, Acceptance – ir… Read more...
I’ve always loved drinking, so it was hard to give up my scotch on the rocks in the evening. No more beer with dinner. Now, it’s tea with honey and water water water. As the decades go by and death’s become more like a relative than a cartoon character, I’… Read more...
I work alone. That is, I have a talented team of editors and administrative staff but they work remotely which means it’s just me sitting here, at this desk, in this office.
I can wear boxer shorts, go barefoot, even have a little scotch on Friday afternoon while I tackle te… Read more...
One thing we can learn from The Great Partisan Divide is that we are all easily manipulated. But the puppeteers, we must realize, are not the media, rather our own emotions.
It’s gotten to the point that when we see a new headline or image, we try to figure out the perspecti… Read more...
My wife’s favorite story about me, the one where she can’t help but laugh as she tells the punchline, is that day I was getting a pedicure in the salon. In noticing all the empty chairs around me, I innocently asked my esthetician:
“Why is it so dead in here?
To w… Read more...
Novelists get to choose their plot points, to weave efficient storylines without excess. At least that’s how it appears…
In reality, novelists know writing is mostly a reductive process: rounds and rounds of trimming out everything unnecessary. It’s these strateg… Read more...
Recognize the power of visualization.
It’s not just a woo-woo thing. Your brain doesn’t know the difference between what’s out there and what’s inside, and with enough blasts of the same image, your brain will actually change, physically, which means your p… Read more...