Black Friday 2018 – Giving Thanks for Addicts
It’s not just crackheads. It’s you, too For one day we believe that what we have is enough. And we can be thankful. Amateur cooks, aided by Google algorithms, assemble …
I don’t know
On January 13, 2016 I was a little lost. I was close to broke, the business I was working for hadn’t paid me in three months, and I was sitting …
Book Review: 1984 by George Orwell
The dystopian dream of technological surveillance has come true in a more effective realization: cell phones. More advanced than Orwell’s telescreens, cell phones are compact, equipped with microphones, GPS, cameras and biometric sensors. And we willingly and eagerly carry them with us everywhere we go.
Face Your Fears and Travel the World
Editor’s note: Originally published Jun 3, 2016. Podcast added August 2, 2017 with the first 16 minutes of the Face Fears and Travel talk at Hostelling International. The camera stopped …
Meditation: Lead the body
A freewrite from July 30, 2017. Burrows Island Light Station, WA, USA Peel away the illusions of the mind to arrive at the eternal you. The place that isn’t distracted …
Mountains and Momentum
We are master extrapolators. We dream up the ultimate reality. With our imagination we can dream real an experience that has yet to manifest itself in our waking world. Athletes …
Meet People Where They Are
“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” – Malcolm X When was …
Fluidity
There are billions upon billions of stories on this planet. And billions is a modest estimation. Every human has their own story and can create a story for every other …
Reactive Reptiles Audio Experience
This is the audio experience for Reactive Reptiles. James sits with his butthole clenched, teeth gritting and eye balls twitching. That stupid gorilla meme Sandy shared is the …
10 Things to Do After You’re Fired
A friend recently emailed me after being fired and wanted my input on what to do. Below is part of the list that I emailed them. The actions are for …
Eden Koz: The Journey to Just Be
One year before Eden Koz and I spoke on the podcast she found out that she had a rare infectious disease that spread from her lungs to her brain. Two brain …
People Who Don’t Stop Talking: A Passive Aggressive Playbook
Have you ever encountered a person who incessantly speaks, and when it is your turn in the conversation they listen to you only for opportunities to regain control of the …
Laundry
The eternal darkness of the womb is washed out by a blinding new sight: The light of a new world. The skin at the crown of the head tingles as …
A 90 Day Challenge – Slow Carb Diet, Information Fasting, Pull-ups and More
It was a sunny Seattle Saturday afternoon and the four of us were swimming in Lake Union from the dock of the most psychedelic house boat on the lake. I …
Book Review: The Search for Meaning
This past week I went airplane mode and read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. The book is relevant, powerful, dark and inspiring look at how life in a …
Chucky’s Fight
“Win with what you’ve got. If you want it bad enough you’ll figure it out.” Before our conversation, Charles Rosa had just taken a swim in the 50 degree water …
Clear the Mechanism
After sitting silent for 60 minutes, his three words silenced the 20 others in the room: “Clear the mechanism.” “Tell me more about that!” “My pitching coach used to tell …
Walking Like a Panther: The Power of Poses
One of my clients does the panther walk. That is, they walk as if avalanches of abundance are cascading into their life and the manifestations of their dreams are happening …
Five Guys
Tony “The greatest fear is always going to be your intimate relationship. That’s why the path of intimacy is ten times more powerful as a spiritual path than the path …
Virtue Signalling and Locker Room Talk
“You shouldn’t make a public display of virtue until you’ve straightened up your damn life.” -Dr. Jordan B. Peterson When Donald Trump’s ‘locker room talk’ episode leaked, I was aghast at …
Bad News About Bad Habits, Making a Mess and Doing
People want good news about bad habits Have you noticed how people tend to tiptoe around the root of a problem? Let’s think about our friend James. He is having trouble …
How to Find the Pebble in Your Shoe | And My First Vlog!
This was my first vlog! I’ve been battling the resistance on launching a vlog for many, many months. And today, the resistance was defeated. This is for you if …
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Today I had the immense pleasure of being a guest on Alma Lara’s weekly Facebook Live show. She was on The Way In earlier this year, and as you know, she …
Doing. Self Love. Masks
“. . . the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I”.” -Watts I. Doing Like with everything else I’ve …
To Travel Like a Pro, Don’t Do These Things
There are thousands of books on how to travel, travel guides, what to pack, what to buy, what to eat, etc. What about what not to do? A list of what …
Smoking is bad. Mmmkay?
I have been scheming a pocket book of negative rules, rules of don’ts for health, travel, money, relationships and Life et al. To begin, on today’s dose of the Daily …
From Art to Self Sabotage
Life. “It’s just a ride… And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple …
A Big Social Media Miss for Small Brands
You’re not responding to every comment. I get that some comments are spam comments and that some comments are people building their own brand awareness by copy/paste commenting. That is, they’re …
Set yourself free through your art
If a tree falls in the middle of the forest does anyone hear its sound? Unless your audiences is trees, no. Everyone is an artist the moment they create: the …
Why United Airlines is Right: Don’t hate the player…
The screams from inside the cabin of UA flight 3411 haunt the newsfeeds of people around the world. The flight was overbooked. No one took United’s offer for an $800 …
Job Descriptions — The Fake Happiness Culture of the Startup World
To apply Please first read our 40 page manifesto on culture. For perspective, it will also do you well to read ‘Farenheit 451’. You must know that we only deliver …
Resources and Negative Reinforcement
A person sites under an apple tree. Its branches sag from the weight of its fruit. In the shade of the tree sits a man. He holds a sign: “Hungry. …
Friday Five: The ‘Secret’ and Straight FIRE from 1841
This is the last Friday of my 20’s. Pour one out for me this weekend. I’ll be traveling to the badlands of Eastern Washington to witness the ancient scenery. In …
Waves, War and Art | What it takes
Waves, war and art. Undulation is the nature of existence. The All is in a constant act of coming and going, with pause for staying; Climbing, Quitting, Camping. The war …
Via Negativa: Subtract to Perfection
Click below to watch the talk! What is one thing that if you eliminated it from your life today would change your life for the better? A rule of …
Savages. A Poem.
Savages Uncivilized, unmotivated. When it’s your birthday they’ll hit you up next day. Belated. Like a girl, but waited? He found out about it, went in, and they dated. Got …
#AskTimo: I just quit my job for a better one. Now what?
Have you ever quit or thought about quitting a job and worried about the repercussions? Today’s question is for you with a tricky situation from a friend in Ohio. Dear …
Q: What’s your purpose? What is your dream worth to you?
Tristianne asked: “What’s your purpose? What is your dream worth to you?” I’m not 100 on what the thesis of what my purpose is, but it looks like this: I want …
Writer’s block and finding inspiration.
A blank page is an intimidating invitation to create. Creation requires a change of state: potential to kinetic; white to black; nothing to something. A page filled with creation, change …
Workshops are for Crackheads
“Do, or do not. There is no try.” Master Yoda Oftentimes, workshops, webinars, training and certification programs are tries disguised as dos. While I personally am largely skeptical of any …
Never judge a book by its cover. Read First. Judge Later.
Protests are happening across the country and within those protests are micro protests. There seems to be zero unifying cause or a clear set of grievances aside from a fragile shared …
Audit Yourself
This weekend, starting right now, I will be auditing myself. And I invite to you to do the same with yourself. What do I mean by that? When I was …
Trolls and the Blinking Cursor
New Post. A Blank Page. The blinking cursor. The first few letters of a word appear from thought, hit the fingers and flash across the screen. Somewhere within my head …
Water World Friday
Water has been in the news this past week. Record rainfall along the west coast has tested aging infrastructure in regions experiencing record population growth. In Seattle, millions of gallons …
5 Incredible Washington State Hikes
It’s a surprise to me when people visit the Pacific Northwest just to visit cities. This is like visiting a Ferrari dealership to sample Folger’s coffee. But, hey, not everyone …
Unity Freestyle
Unity Freestyle Like MLK Jr and Malcolm X; Ghandi and Jesus, these are the people that brought the fight to unite. Come together through love, not fear. We are persuaded by …
The Clam Dig
Clam Digging. That’s what I did this past weekend on the wild coast of Washington state. We were after the Pacific razor clam, and I realize now how popular a recreational …
NewsFeeding
When I cook, I eat my own cooking. The most difficult part is limiting my quality assurance tastings. I need to make sure there’s enough left for the dinner table. …
No Excuses: Write, Design and Publish from Your Phone
It’s Friday and I had half a day less to work with. We’re heading out to the Olympic coast to hunt razor clams and my Friday newsletter is due. I …
Podcast Equipment Guide
This is the podcast equipment that I use. The goal: keep it simple and inexpensive. There are certainly other tools that I have added over time, but at the end …
3 Questions
timo’s note: podcast version added January 24, 2017. When I quit my corporate job to enter the startup world I knew that it would take grit. I knew that I would …
Plant Medicine and the Final Frontier
The medicine was supposed to clear my vision. And I was instantly blinded. My eyes sealed shut. The veins on my forehead bulged edging on explosion. An acid-drenched, liquid drill …
5 Must-See Seattle Views
Seattle is about the views. Stratovolcanoes, the Salish Sea and two mountain ranges are visible on clear days. And the city has multiple beaches. Here are five of my favorite …
The #1 Killer of Americans
What is the #1 killer of Americans? Terrorists? Immigrants? Muslims? Donald Trump? The Clintons? The GOP? Black Lives Matter? The Russians? None of the statistics agree with any of these anxiety-ridden assumptions. …
The Friday Five – January 6, 2017
This was last week’s Friday Five I sent to the tribe and an example of what you can expect to receive from the man bun maestro. If you are interested in …
Be nice to your drug dealer
“Oh. My. God. Why are baristas so miserable? Like, honestly, I just want my latte without their attitude. And they didn’t even serve organic!” I’ve heard versions of those lines …
Dr. Shawn Postma: The 4 Directions, Anxiety and Reconnecting to Our Inner Genius
Dr. Shawn Postma is a Naturopathic Doctor and Spiritual Mentor. And I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to bask in the presence of his innate wisdom. While working …
Dis-Ease and the 6 Traits of Anxiety
This post was inspired by a conversation between Neil Strauss and Dr. Christopher Ryan on Tangentially Speaking. Check it out! When you are dis-eased, you are ripe for disease. So, …
Alma Lara on How to Dream it Real, Gratitude and Restarting from Zero
She is the next Oprah. I’m telling you. And I think this is the closest I’ve come to tears in an interview. Alma is a real life example of how …
The 7 Best Books I Read in 2016
Of the 30 or so books I read in 2016, here are the highlights. For each of these books there are at least two or three accompanying books that I …
The Friday Five
This was the first Friday Five I sent to the tribe and an example of what you can expect to receive from yours truly. If you’re interested in receiving an email …
The Bathroom: A Sanctuary for the Soul
The plumber knocks on the door. He’s arrived to fix your struggling toilet that’s been choking down potable water and 8am coffee dumps its entire life. Today it has had …
Hitchhiking the World on $10 a Day
Manny Marshall has been hitchhiking the world on less than $10 a day, and he has been doing it for the last 4 years. At RawSafari.com, he shares his incredible stories from the road, …
Soul Guru and the Cafe on the Ledge
How is that so many of us can feel lost in a state of “I don’t know” as the answers to life instantly appear on a 5 inch screen? We might be looking in the …
The Man in the Mirror: Social Justice’s Forgotten Hero
The social movements of today are missing a critical element that was core to every movement that’s ever cracked the foundations of injustice: Self Purification. Without self purification, we are …
#EndTheCommute
40 unpaid hours per month. Minimum. That’s the amount of time I spent commuting 13 miles to a computer. I was part of Microsoft’s shadow workforce of subhuman contractors. It …
5 Packable Self-Care Tools for the Mobile Life
Self-care of mind and body is often forgotten, delegated to an unscheduled future vacation, or dropped into the “I’ll do it some other time,” category. I’ve been guilty of playing …
Give Me Breath, or Give Me Death: 4 Ways to Navigate a Quickening World
After weeks of anticipation, I got the call. It was an opportunity to be part of an event I had been seeking for 5 years, and the caller had the …
A Cataclysmic Flood Made This…
12,800 years ago a comet plunged into the one-mile-thick North American ice sheet. A 2,000ft high wall of water emanated from the impact center. At 75mph, a tsunami of water, …
The Jokes On You – The Final Social Experiment
We’re being played by the Joker. Remember The Dark Knight? Remember the Joker? Remember the final scene when the Joker rigged two ferries with explosives? If not, watch the scene …
Reactive Reptiles
James sits with his butthole clenched, teeth gritting and eye balls twitching. That stupid gorilla meme Sandy shared is the most xenophobic, misogynist, bigoted, racist thing since ET the Extra-Terrestrial. …
Cannabis Legalization: Follow the Money
On August 11, 2016 the DEA said Cannabis will remain a Schedule 1 substance, the same classification as heroin. The DEA classifies a schedule 1 drug as one “with no currently accepted …
What’s Your Absolute Value?
Remember Absolute Value from math class? The absolute value is a number’s distance from zero: In this example, -3 and 3 both have an absolute value of 3, because they …
Masturdating: The Art of Dating Yourself
“You can be married and bored, or single and lonely. Ain’t no happiness nowhere.” –Chris Rock The digital world has presented a paradox: We are so digitally connected as we sit …
How I Made $293 in 24 hours with a Library Card
Books are perhaps the greatest deal on the planet. For ten to twenty dollars you might receive more knowledge, life-changing insights and epiphanies than any university course will give you. …
Exploring the Dark Side: Sensory Deprivation and Altered States with Sean McCormick
Get ready for an interstellar, extra-dimensional journey into sensory deprivation, the shadow self, astral projection, artificial intelligence, getting better sleep, and more. Sean McCormick is a life coach and entrepreneur, best …
Nick Easterday, Drifting Massage Therapist
If you’ve ever dreamed of living or traveling in a van, and making a living with your hands, this episode may inspire you to make the jump. Nick Easterday is a …
Getting to Zero – Erasing $55,000 of Debt in One Year
$55,000 stand between me and Zero. It’s a mountain composed of student loans, credit card debt, and buyer’s remorse. I’ve spoken about July 3rd, 2016 being an independence day in my life. …
One Year Ago I Retired
I retired at 28 with no 401K, no savings, tons of debt and an idea: Freedom. July 3rd, 2015 was my independence day. It was the end of a toxic …
What My High School Guidance Counselor Didn’t Tell Me
You’re being rushed into a life of indentured servitude. The education you’re going to purchase will be mediocre. At times, what you will be taught will be an insult to the …
Kay Way on Losing Her Hair and Gaining Acceptance
What was supposed to be a 30 second soundcheck turned into an hour conversation. And so a Podcast was born! Kay Way is the founder of Baldacious Beings, a social …
Steven Downey: uTusk, Everest, and offering it up
In 2011, Steven Downey returned from combat duty in Iraq, and faced a new set of challenges at home: PTSD, anxiety, depression, and weight gain. And while he was deployed he …
It’s Just Business and Nothing Personal
Three months into my first IT consulting job out of college, I was certain I was going to be fired. It was a Saturday in October. I was on-call that …
How to Fire Your Employer With Grace
How to Fire Your Employer with Grace You’re ready to quit. You’ve done the work. You’ve read and agreed with the scores of buzzfeed articles about quitting your job. Your …
Shoot For The Moon
Shoot For The Moon Shift from Consumption to Production The hype surrounding the launch of the next iPhone, Star Wars movie, or video game system used to make me feel …
Infinite Indecision
How I Calibrate Myself to Avoid Decision Fatigue Hurriedly James leaves the dark confines of his flourescently lit office and spills onto the sun soaked pavement of the outside world. …
Meditation on Change
What is Change? Change is transition. It is the arrival of the storm. It is a musical change in key. It is a waterfall connecting two channels. It is the …
Reframing The J-O-B Mentality
Reframing the J-O-B mentality Everyday, people complain about their job, their boss, or their coworker that smells like ancient narwhal musk who refuses to stay at home when they’re sick. …