Thoughts on Motivation

Every morning I set my “opportunity clock”, as Zig Ziglar refers to it as, to go and workout. And believe me, I’m not the most wide awake and well put together person at 4am. But it’s often that I sometimes feel motivation is portrayed by the “big speech at work” Read more…

Millennials are…

It’s appalling and insulting to read on professional sites, stereotypes about Millennials being lazy and not goal oriented. It feels like a personal attack on me. I only wonder what would happen if the authors of these articles actually spoke with a millennial. My email is always readily posted.

First grad course finishing up

It’s hard to believe that my first ever “formal” psychology course for grad school is finishing up this week. Being a part time student and “working” 40 hours a week as a process engineer, along with “playing” in other aspects of my life, has been a quick awakening as to Read more…

When work became play for me

I often get crazy looks when I show my enthusiasm to run 26.2 miles or when I decide to go back to graduate school in a field where I’ve never taken an actual course in. But what I’ve realized through my book The Impression of a Good Life: Philosophical Engineering, Read more…

A strange expectation

During my meditation tonight, a reoccurring thought of what others expect of me kept dancing in my mind. That is, what is going to happen to Tony? Is he going to “make it” somewhere? Or is he just looking like an idiot by trying to be different? And really the Read more…