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
9am the 2nd Wednesday of the month. And you know what that means!
Everyone up and down Mira Vista Ave has to move their cars to the other side of the street to make way for the street sweeper.
It’d be entertaining to watch a time-elapsed video of all the people, in robes, wit… Read more...
I wrote a short story a while back about a garbage man giving life lessons to a Lit major. Okay, it was semi-autobiographical. I was in school at the time doing a summer job painting dumpsters…
The story veered deeper into fiction toward the end as I was trying to figure out… Read more...
If you want to see real change in yourself, start taking cold showers.
When you take a cold shower (or turn the water ice cold at the end as I do), you’re operating from your future self.
Your future self knows how invigorated you will feel after a cold shower. Your future se… Read more...
My daughter has this look she does when she’s listening. Her eyes stare off in another direction, her mouth opens slightly, and not a muscle in her face moves. You can almost see the gears
Every once in a million
It’s okay, it happens.
For those that don’t know, my resumes are my art. I am definitely putting a piece of myself into each project. It’s crazy, too, to put so much hea… Read more...
I don’t call my mom as often as I should. It always seems to be the thing that slips off the plate.
I hope I get points on the cosmic scoreboard for thinking about calling
My daughter loves to play with dolls, these little miniature things, where she holds the legs and walks for them and flips around in the air while creating whispering little dialogues.
It’s the cutest thing ever.
Last night she invited me to play with her: “This one has… Read more...
We’ve all had it. You’re at school. You’re at work. You’re on a bus. And you’re naked. Completely naked, for everyone to see. This is one of the most common stress dreams out there, right alongside the “running in the endless hallway” dre… Read more...
One of the honors of which I am most proud is my high school yearbook award as Class Individual.
I was weird.
I used to wear purple suits, giant hoop earrings (in both ears, not just the left one), plaid MC Hammer crotch pants, used-car-salesman jackets, mismatched shoes, African p… Read more...
Ending the day with a clean desk
Retaining a calm mind in a noisy environment
Going away on vacation without having that insane crunch-mode period beforehand
Mixing peanut butter without spilling oil over the rim
Calling my mom frequently enough
Being content on a day I don’t w… Read more...