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An interview with Chris Guillebeau on Fear

Chris Guillebeau's feline sidekick

Editor’s Note: As we finish writing When Fear Blinks: How to See through Your Fear, we’re interviewing people you know doing scary things. Everyone has fears, even really successful people, and learning to do things in spite of them is one element to Living the Good Life. It’s Friday the 13th. Are you happy the [...]

the art of non-conformity

The Art of Nonconformity book cover

“If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?” Your mom probably said this. I know my mom did (though living in the desert she said “cliff” instead of “bridge”). This saying was meant to keep you from falling in with the bad crowd or giving in to peer pressure. If you were like me, [...]

Finally meeting Chris Guillebeau and a bunch of other cool people

Photo by laszlo-photo via Flickr

Last night was our last night in the house. We had a lot of choices in how to spend it: a nice dinner in, enjoying one of our favorite neighborhood restaurants, cleaning, packing, etc. So what did we do? We left our house and ventured downtown for the third meeting of SCOOT (Seattle Consortium of [...]

The Resolution Retreat

Warren and Max at our planning session at Hotel Max in Seattle (photo by Betsy Talbot)

I have a confession to make:  I have a love/hate relationship with resolutions and the new year.  Most people I know (including me) come up with the same resolutions every year – lose weight, save more money, exercise – but we fall off the wagon before turning the page on January.  Why does this happen? [...]