I’ve played this game for a while. I finally got a 4096 tile and got to 60,400 points. I’ve read about people getting a lot farther, but this was high enough for me to post.

Disaster! My computer won’t start. Can I ask you a favor? Since my password to log into my web page is on the computer and I can’t access my backup hard drive while my apartment renovations finish, as my web guy, you’re my best hope to post something today. I have to meet a client for a full-day coaching session so I can’t work on my computer until tomorrow. Would[…] Keep reading →

Perhaps the best honor one person can give another is to understand them and continue their legacy. I’m writing today’s post to suggest you can do that with Martin Luther King more than you think. Many people believe Einstein got bad grades, but I understand he didn’t. Martin Luther King, Jr got bad grades. He started graduate school at a school near Philadelphia called Crozer. Note among his grades —[…] Keep reading →

30,000 burpees! That’s a lot of burpees. I will hit that milestone tomorrow morning, or thereabouts, assuming forty burpees per day starting December 21, 2011. The first few months I ramped up from ten per day so I might have done fewer, but I’ve also done a bunch of extras to make up for eating or drinking too much unhealthy food or drink. I’ve influenced a few people to do[…] Keep reading →

JoshuaSpodek.com now has an Archives page, listing every post by date from today’s until my first post. Check it out! You might find a valuable post you wouldn’t have otherwise.

I wrote a series of posts on willpower. I assembled them into series format so you can read them all at once. Check it out. For reference, the first post goes like this: Most people know what they should do to create the life for themselves they want. Sadly, most people don’t do what they feel they should. They do what’s easy. People who want to lose weight keep eating[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity (SIDCHA). If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] I bet most successful people have at least one self-imposed daily challenging healthy activity (introducing what should become a standard personal development term SIDCHA, pronounced sid’-chah), whether they[…] Keep reading →

People treat some days as special days to devote time to their values. Why not treat every day as a day to devote to your values? Then you can treat every day like a holiday. I try to. If you don’t, why not? If you want to but can’t, why not? Most people say something about having to make money or some other obligation. If you have obligations you can’t[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on Cold Showers. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view that series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Today is my twenty-second of thirty taking deliberate cold showers. It’s an amazing experience I would never have guessed as valuable as I’ve found it. I’ll write more on it after day thirty.[…] Keep reading →