by Ira | Mar 31, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I have a cycle I run through whenever I get depressed. I’ve just recently realized it. I get anxious about something until it builds to some kind of breaking point. After that, I feel depressed, and my mind and body go into shutdown/recovery mode. I take a...
by Ira | Mar 30, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
It’s tough when you don’t feel good. I don’t feel like those words quite adequately express what I want them to, but they’re all the words I seem to have right now, and honesty is more important than eloquence. I have the feeling that I...
by Ira | Mar 29, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
It was a tough week for me, guys. Which is a new feeling, because I got work done, and that’s usually all I need. I really did power through, and I know logically that I truly got some solid work in, but it was just a tough week. Depressed. Anxious. A few highs,...
by Ira | Mar 28, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
“The Dip” is a concept from Seth Godin. I haven’t read it–I just loaded it onto my kindle and the reading starts immediately after writing this–but I feel like I’m in one. A “dip,” that is. I know I’m in one,...
by Ira | Mar 27, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I let go of some books today. I’d had them since I was a teenager. They were Star Trek books. I collected them. I’d buy them in hardcover, read them immediately, and then proudly put them on my shelf. I had dozens of them. Spines out. Dust jackets shiny...
by Ira | Mar 26, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
Guys, when my wife and I first started dating, I was super suuuuper into EDM. I was into “Progressive” as it was called back then. House and Trance. Liz, being the fucking badass she is, was also into edm. This is the first song that she sent me: Omg. Love...
