How I Got Featured in a Fashion Magazine

July 19, 2011

Greetings if you came from the indiDenim blog. If not, you can see my feature here. I was recently featured in Gainer–a Japanese men’s fashion magazine–and happened to be wearing my indiDenim jeans, so the good folks at indiDenim did a Customer Spotlight on me. This post is the story of how I got in [...]

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Take a Permanent Working Vacation

July 18, 2011

One summer during college I was doing an internship at a corporate law office in Tokyo and I met a lawyer there from Los Angeles who was on a “working vacation.” This was a new term to me at the time, but it seemed like a shear genius idea. Many of us would like to [...]

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Fixing Problems vs. Building On Success

July 12, 2011

Are you a problem fixer? Most of us approach the challenges of life with a mentality that I call “problem-fix.” In short, your method for tackling challenges is to become really good at diagnosing problems and then fixing them. You might show up to work in the morning and there are already a pile of [...]

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Chance Encounters: How to Be Excellent in Front of Others

July 3, 2011

From time to time in our lives we have chance encounters with acquaintances or are somehow drawn into conversation with strangers. Even if you have positive feelings towards the other person, these chance encounters can be awkward and uncomfortable. You might find that you don’t really know what to say. Oddly, everyone except you seems [...]

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Life On Purpose: Overcoming Internal Friction

June 24, 2011

Previously I wrote about how we often mis-identify our life purposes, and how to create a life purpose statement that emphasizes what you want to experience as a context to shape what you do. It would be great if once you’d clarified your life purpose and crystallized it into a statement if it emboldened you [...]

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Life On Purpose: Creating a Life Purpose Statement

June 13, 2011

How would your life be different if you had a crystal clear life purpose? Would you wake up in the morning excited to tackle it? Would it give you the strength to push through and achieve it no matter what, because you knew it’s what you were destined to do? I sure thought so, but [...]

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