By Nic Lindh on Friday, 18 September 2015
A lot of times when working on a project—or your life—you find yourself stuck. And the ideas come in. Should I do this? Should I do that?
Especially at the exhaustion stages of a project—or your life—it’s common to just want to pick one and get it over with. But which one?
Pay attention, class, here’s where I get as life coach as I ever get: As a boy in Sweden I read a chess book that said, paraphrasing, “If you can’t tell yourself in one sentence what a move will accomplish, it’s not a good move.”
That’s Sun Tzu level discipline.
“If you can’t tell yourself in one sentence what a move will accomplish, it’s not a good move.”
Try it the next time you have an urge to do something. Can you tell yourself, in one sentence, what that action will accomplish?
If you can’t, that action will most likely take you to the same place you’re at, or worse, just a little farther down the road.
A few tips that might make your next long-haul flight less terrible.
Nic has travel experiences and wishes he thought he was immortal like other people apparently do.
I have a ten hour layover at Chicago O’Hare and it’s terrible.
Alex Trebek was one of the people who welcomed Nic to America, many years ago.
Did you know Las Vegas is kind of nutty?
Nic has a retinal tear and has his vision is saved by a laser.
The Lindhs visit Pacific Beach and discover a huge bass system and surfers.
Get medieval on your fascia.
The Lindh family visits the Big Apple and it is good.
You meet interesting people at the Apple Store. And everybody has a limit.
Nic practices yoga. It doesn’t go well.
It’s Caturday. Nic introduces one of his cats.
Nic ruminates on the changes ten years have wrought.
Nic ransacks his memories to recount a year of Swedish weather.
Nic loves Thanksgiving but, seriously, the bird’s got to go.
Nic discovers yoga/Pilates is a great antidote to middle-age decrepitude.
Nic is dragged along on a photo safari to rural Arizona.
The horrific events in Norway hit home for Nic.
Nic takes his daughter to go nerd watching at the Phoenix ComiCon.
Nic talks about the early days of the Apple Store and how it came damn close to killing him.
Nic finds that Vibram FiveFingers help with his chronic compartment syndrome. This makes him happy.
Nic discovers Nine Inch Nails as a broke student with an IROC-Z in Louisiana. He still loves Pretty Hate Machine.