Twenty years of writing

The Blog

Every post from my old blogs and website, 2005 to 2025, gathered in one place. 811 of them, newest first. The ones marked rebuilt have a new home elsewhere on the site.

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2025 3 posts

Oct 31My Peace Corps Storyrebuilt
Oct 16The Daily Confusion of Losing a Job
Sep 22A Brief Guide for Getting Off Caffeine

2022 1 posts

May 21My (Fake) Best Man Speech

2020 5 posts

Oct 225 Reasons to Become a Benefit Corporationrebuilt
Jul 16The Post It Note Activity
Mar 31Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Mar 23The Home
Jan 26The Coworking Space

2019 2 posts

Dec 13Writing Retreatrebuilt
Jan 18Mary Oliverrebuilt

2018 3 posts

Dec 13Beyond Resolutions
May 22The Fishermanrebuilt
Mar 16Randy Pauschrebuilt

2017 4 posts

Dec 15My Favorite Dream
Mar 2Influences: A Free Class, Its Workbook and 12 Reflectionsrebuilt
Feb 17Interview with Peace Corps Podcastrebuilt
The Hero's Journey

2016 11 posts

Dec 13Forrest Gump's Simple Guide To A Happy Life
Dec 13Idea Shower
Dec 9Ben Franklin's Guide to Successrebuilt
Nov 9Simple Ways to Deal with Overwhelm
Aug 25How Stressed Are You? Understanding The Stress Scale
Aug 16The Art of Delegating
Aug 10The Joy of Cancelling Things
Jul 26Dalai Lama Book of Quotesrebuilt
Jul 22The Art of Worrying Less
Feb 1152 Fun Date Night Ideas
Jan 18Why You Deserve to Be Around Energy Givers

2015 22 posts

Dec 5Five Reasons to Be Appreciative
Dec 3Why I Love Bouncing Into Other Entrepreneurs
Dec 2Mister Rogersrebuilt
Nov 30#24 Working in a coffee shop
Nov 25#13 Having Multiple Sources of Income
Nov 22#52 Seeing the best in people
Nov 11#33 Having a nice slow morning with coffee
Nov 9#44 Finding Awesome Deals at Thrift Shops
Nov 7Why You Should Know Your Love Languages
Nov 5#22 Working with People You Love
Nov 4#2 Completely Open Days
Nov 3Why You Should Know Your Personality Type
Aug 85 Smart Things To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do
Jul 27The Joys and Perils of Working for Yourself
Jul 24How I Lost 15 Pounds with My Apple Watch
Jul 17The 4 Things I'm Doing to Find My Voice Again
Feb 2830 Life Lessons I've Learned in 30 Years
Feb 28How to Win Friends and Influence People: The Best Summaryrebuilt
Feb 24Waiting + Being Happy
Feb 5Why Great Presenters Are Boring People
Jan 31Crafting Your Purposerebuilt
Jan 28How I Bounced Back from Losing My Job

2014 77 posts

Dec 11How to Be Apart From Someone You Love
Dec 3Where Will You Be at 90?
Nov 26How to Be Happier at Work
Nov 25How to Live Your Dream
Nov 13Why I Love ZenPencilsrebuilt
Nov 10What I Learned From My First Academic Conference
Oct 31B Corps, What What?!?
Sep 19How Tunga Changed My Life (Spoken)rebuilt
Sep 13You Can't Lead People Unless You Love People
Sep 10How to Destroy Writer's Block
Sep 9The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau: Review and Interviewrebuilt
Sep 1My Question To The Dalai Lama's Doctor
Aug 23Happy People Have Projects
Aug 12How to Be Greatrebuilt
Aug 7Why The Crazy Ones Succeedrebuilt
Jul 31How You Know You’ve Been in Grad School Too Long
Jul 27Masters Graduationrebuilt
Jul 23Interview for Questions for the Dalai Lama
Jul 21My Masters Thesisrebuilt
Jul 17Bill Watterson's Speechrebuilt
Jul 7Why You Should Never Check Your Email in the Morning
Jul 6One Easy Way to Make Your Clock More Fun and Helpful
Jul 4Is America The Goodest Country In The World?
Jun 293 Things I Know About Love
Jun 28What a Wonderful Experience at Our First Book Reading!
Jun 276 Ways to Get Rid of Mice Without Killing Themrebuilt
Jun 19A Little About Tunga's Wonderful Family
Jun 16How Tunga Changed My Liferebuilt
Jun 13Everyday Humanitarians Conference Wraps Up Todayrebuilt
Jun 10Everybody Can Be Great, Because Everybody Can Serverebuilt
Jun 7What Would You Ask One of Your Heroes?rebuilt
Jun 5Amazing Online Conference for Everyday Humanitariansrebuilt
May 205 Ways to Learn Online
May 1810 Things I Wish I Knew When I Graduated College
May 12How Meditation Changed My Peace Corps Experience
May 11Take a Break From Technology
May 6Technology as a Tool
May 2Advice from Jim Hensonrebuilt
Apr 26The Tale of Two Writers
Apr 22Five Friends
Apr 20How To Get Rid of Ads Forever
Apr 15Three Tips to Get Your Dream Started
Apr 13How to Predict the Future with Taboos
Apr 2Never Be a Victim of Circumstance
Mar 31Why We Need You to Stand Up
Mar 28Michael Pollan's 7 Rules for Eatingrebuilt
Mar 25Book Review of Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
Mar 215 Simple Steps to Eating Healthy While Traveling
Mar 21My Favorite Tax Program
Mar 19What I Learned From a One-Day Juice Fast
Mar 15How to Help our Children be Mindful Eaters
Mar 9Redirecting Food Waste
Mar 5Does Eating Local Really Make an Environmental Difference?
Mar 2How to Be Notified Hourly of a Change Online for Free
Feb 26Super-Humanitarians and Everyday Humanitarians
Feb 255 Keys to Relationship Building
Feb 21March Preview: Mindful Eating
Feb 16Secrets of Happy Couplesrebuilt
Feb 10Living Kindly
Feb 8The Library
Feb 542 Errors Changemakers and Humanitarians Make
Feb 3Everyday Humanitarian Book Reviews
Feb 1What is an Everyday Humanitarian?
Feb 1My Professional Statement
Jan 27Life's Little Instructionsrebuilt
Jan 25Everyday Humanitarian
Jan 24Three Vows to Live and Work By
Jan 22What If Money Was No Object?rebuilt
Jan 213 Ways to Slow Down
Jan 21Appreciating Who We Have
Jan 17Living Simply at Home
Jan 16Let's Go Exploring
Jan 13Interview with Jeffrey Hamelman
Jan 13Make Good Artrebuilt
Jan 10Advice from Bill Wattersonrebuilt
Jan 7Annual Review 2014
Jan 5Gandhi's State of Mindrebuilt

2013 19 posts

Dec 27Books Are Awesomerebuilt
Dec 12Google Translate in Mongolian
Dec 9Dare Greatlyrebuilt
Nov 284 Quick Ways to Be Less Demanding and More Awesome
Nov 23Keep Your Accounts on Your Thumbnail
Nov 20Macklemore
Nov 15Chase Adam
Nov 1Writing
Oct 29Butterflyrebuilt
Oct 26A Quick Guide to Being Grateful
Oct 16Happinessrebuilt
Oct 12The Best Time in Your Life
Oct 9The Hardest Year of My Life
Oct 4Conversations About Life After Peace Corps
Oct 1Musical Artists Going Crazy
Sep 26An Easy Guide to Waking Up Early
Sep 20How I Stopped Biting My Nailsrebuilt
Sep 18Write on the First Page
Kindness is a Boomerang

2012 6 posts

2011 55 posts

Sep 21Officially Launching AdvanceHumanity.com
Sep 5Thank You, Peace Corpsrebuilt
Aug 30The End of My Time in Peace Corpsrebuilt
Aug 25Quick Wrap-Up of TEDxUlaanbaatarrebuilt
Aug 18Join Us Live for TEDxUlaanbaatar
Aug 14Our Letter from The Dalai Lama
Aug 11TEDxUlaanbaatar on the Way
Aug 9That Thing You've Been Working On
Aug 3The Three Year Pizzarebuilt
Jul 31Malesh Mifish Mishkela
Jul 14Our Mongolian Weddingrebuilt
Jul 12Let The World Change You and You Can Change The World
Jun 14Passing 38 Months of Service
Jun 4How Walt Disney Inspires Me To Keep Moving Forward
May 24Modern Enlightenment and Prosperity without Growth
May 20How To Be Great Like Martin Luther King, Jr.
May 17How Mendy is an Everyday Mongolian Inspiration
May 14Crush It! Why Now Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion (Review)rebuilt
May 9A Secret Weapon in the Battle Against the Email Monster
May 56 Tips For Self-Publishing That Book You've Always Dreamed of Writing
May 2Everyday Compassion Is A Game We Can All Play
Apr 28What Would You Do With Unlimited Sponsorship?
Apr 25Why I Recommend 10 Days of Silent Meditation
Apr 21How To Start Your Own TEDx Event
Apr 19Love Wins
Apr 17TEDx Gaining Momentum
Apr 11Three Lessons from a Gobi Desert Train Ride
Apr 6Richard Sitler, Making Peace with the World
Apr 1A Philosopher’s Notes by Brian Johnsonrebuilt
Mar 28Getting Married
Mar 27TEDTalk Bob Thurman
Mar 26Consider this your bailing out…
Mar 24Free Rice
Mar 22TEDTalk Clifford Stoll
Mar 22Join Usrebuilt
Mar 22Resourcesrebuilt
Mar 21What is TED?
Mar 21Inspirationsrebuilt
Mar 21Projectsrebuilt
Mar 17Are you easily distracted when online?
Mar 16Organizing TEDxUlaanbaatar
Mar 1Peace Corps 10 for 3 (10 Things for 3rd Goal)rebuilt
Feb 27Quotes from the Dalai Lama Update
Feb 19Vipassanna in Prison
Feb 15TEDTalk Tuesday : Nigel Marsh on How To Make Work-Life Balance Work
Feb 9Free Tax Refunds
Feb 8TEDTalk Tuesday: Neil Pasricha's Awesomeness
Jan 27Community Fund Update
Jan 24A Working Perspective
Jan 22Peace Corps' Founding Father
Jan 21Everyday with the WHO
Jan 19Jack Tales
Jan 162010 Annual Review
Jan 10Life, Death and Taxi Drivers
Jan 7From Home to Home

2010 97 posts

Dec 24Notes from the Road, Week Four
Dec 21WHKY Interview
Dec 18Notes from the Road, Week Three
Dec 10Notes from the Road, Week Two
Dec 1Notes from the Road, Week One
Nov 28How to Be the Change with Gandhi
Nov 11Inside Worldview
Nov 5Two Days, Two Amazing Friends
Nov 1Focus
Oct 31You Are Going To Die
Oct 23Why You Should Consult Your Advisors Often
Oct 19How to Raise $1000 for Your Cause
Oct 16On Writing A Fulbright Research Grant
Oct 12How The 80/20 Rule May Matter For You
Oct 9Starting Our Unofficial Community
Sep 26Life Is Barely Long Enough
Sep 19Accelerating Our Lives
Sep 13New Life In The City
Sep 8The Before and The After
Aug 19Micro-Financing Redemption
Aug 16They'll Call Me Freedom
Aug 12JRC Sports for Peace
Aug 9Shipping Out
Aug 5Concerned Consumers
Aug 2Keep Moving Forward
Jul 29New Address
Jul 26Dariganga Village Water Project
Jul 22Living A Life of Service
Jul 17Naadam
Jul 13Summer Camp
Jul 8Exciting Move
Jul 5Water Charity
Jul 1District 9
Jun 28Secondhand Lions
Jun 24Freedom to Choose
Jun 21Buddhism in Mongolia
Jun 16Children's Camprebuilt
Jun 14Greatest Mongolia Travel Guide Ever!
Jun 10Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarderrebuilt
Jun 7Starting a Community Fund
Jun 3The Two Year Markrebuilt
May 31Mongolian Helmet Project
May 27The Greatness of Simplicity
May 24Children and Power
May 20Beyond War
May 17Free Mind Mapping Software
May 1388 Bikes Foundation
May 10An Ending
May 7Forgiveness
Apr 30Respecting Actions
Apr 27Music Therapy
Apr 25Focus
Apr 22Free, Helpful and Awesome
Apr 21PCVLrebuilt
Apr 19If I Were Me
Apr 15Something Better
Apr 12Unofficial Future
Apr 8TED Talks (Ideas Worth Spreading)
Apr 6Awarding Hard Work
Apr 5To Him That Was Crucified
Apr 1From Conference to Summer Camps
Mar 30Two Rooms
Mar 25Our Story of Human Rights
Mar 22Madiba
Mar 21Preparing Ahead
Mar 20Yes. Very.
Mar 17The Worst Day of My Peace Corps Servicerebuilt
Mar 15Living To Be 100
Mar 13Self Actualizationrebuilt
Mar 10Compassion and Enlightenment
Mar 7Your Gig Line
Mar 4In Dreams Awake
Mar 1Free Handbook Release
Feb 28Say What You Need To Say
Feb 25Stress Messrebuilt
Feb 21A Tall Order
Feb 18On Consistent Internet
Feb 15I Love Papa Jack
Feb 14Language is Unnecessary
Feb 12Project Expansion
Feb 9What I Want
Feb 6Definition of Success
Feb 4Greatness and Roots
Feb 2Social Entrepreneurship
Feb 1Muhummad Yunus
Jan 31An Agile Mind
Jan 27The Future of Peace Corps
Jan 26Annoying
Jan 23Star Potter
Jan 20A Talk with Tunga's Fatherrebuilt
Jan 18Consistency
Jan 15Jim on "Change Yourself. Change Your World."
Jan 12Change Yourself. Change Your World.
Jan 9Published This Year
Jan 7Unquantifiable
Jan 3Opportunities
Jan 1Greatness

2009 79 posts

2008 104 posts

2007 106 posts

2006 82 posts

2005 135 posts

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