by Eric Butow | Oct 17, 2019 | Stories
After the power shutoff, life here in my home office and the (small) city of Jackson have returned to normal. On Monday, October 7, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) announced they would shut off power on October 9 and 10. The reason, they said, was due to forecast...
by Eric Butow | Oct 3, 2019 | Stories
Writing down accomplishments is something I don’t do every day, but I write at least twice a week. I prefer to type my accomplishments in Word files called “personal logs”. (Some write their journals in longhand in paper journals, but for now I write...
by Eric Butow | Sep 12, 2019 | Stories
Choosing the right path is a common theme among influencers in my social media feeds. You must make more money or cut back on your expenses. Listen to yourself, but act like who you want to become. You have to relax more but you have to do more right now. And...
by Eric Butow | Aug 22, 2019 | Stories
Social media sirens call to me every day on my computer and my smartphone. I like to be up to date, so I’m especially susceptible to their call. So, this past weekend I culled some of my social media contacts as part of my continued effort to tune out...
by Eric Butow | Aug 15, 2019 | Stories
Tuning out distractions is hard. Television and the web distract us easily. I find it’s easy to turn off the television but I work on a computer most of the day, so I find myself visiting social media websites often without thinking about it. Last week I went on...
by Eric Butow | Aug 8, 2019 | Stories
Use energy wisely. That’s the moral of the story I got when I read my previous post a few days after I wrote it. (I didn’t mean it as the opening salvo of a Sad Off.) By energy, I mean the energy you use both physically and mentally. Part of using energy...
