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A personal reflection on finding unexpected love and joy after embracing solitude, and the liberating effects of letting go of social media and embracing real connections.

2024 - Year of Discipline

2024 - Year of Discipline

Today is Bell Let's Talk Day, a day focused on mental health awareness. For the past few years, I have been using it to talk about a theme for the next year.

Turning 14 Years Old

Another challenging year, but coming out stronger than in the past.

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Mind Bombs- The Need For Self-Renewal

> Had I not been subject to the darkness, I could not have seen the light. — Midrash (translated from Hebrew) Every now and then, I feel the need to expand on my level of knowledge or experiences to create a change in myself, whether major or minor. The easiest way for me to do this is by reading an article, blog, or book that I normally wouldn’t find myself reading, but I also enjoy going somewhere that I haven’t been yet. When I do this, I set off a mind bomb and become more aware of myself

Tags: life | renewal

Turn Up That F'ing Bass! - 32 Years Old Today

11/11/11, otherwise known as my 32nd birthday. I always lived with the belief that life didn’t really begin until you turn 30, but I didn’t realize how true that actually was until I had turned 30 myself. It seems as though people spend their 20’s mainly figuring out who they are, and where they want to go, without actually getting that far down that path. Of course, there are exceptions out there, but I am not one of them. My 20’s were spent going up a hill, stopping, then deciding I wanted t

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Cotton Candy Cuddled - Inspired by @Fighter_Diet

> A great friend tells you to keep working hard. A great friend does not tell you to, “Take it easy and don’t be so hard on yourself.” We grow from pushing our limits, not from being cotton candy cuddled. Pauline Nordin [http://www.facebook.com/FDfighterdiet/posts/10150262669479209], Fighter Diet [http://www.fighterdiet.com/] I follow Pauline Nordin on Facebook for a few reasons: 1. She’s pretty darn funny with some of her comments about her fellow gym users. 2. She gives some prett

Tags: diet | fitness

The Paleo Revolution - 100th Post @ Four Sides

Almost one year to the day, I started blogging again. I had gone through several different versions of blogs trying to discover myself. There have been so many that I can’t even remember all the addresses and whether the content is still alive on the sites or not. The one before this site, Isolation [http://isolation.wordpress.com], is still alive. It is a dormant vegetable of a blog at this point though. Another, Macbethproject [http://macbethproject.blogspot.com/] awaits me to find some time/e

Tags: diet | life | paleo

Weathering the Storm - A Story of Moving On

Play the video, then read on: Since my (ex)-girlfriend left me over a week ago, I have found myself with a lot more time to do whatever I want. A good portion of that time has been thinking. I can’t say specifically what I have been contemplating, because at this point in my life, my mind is wandering a lot. What I can tell you is that thinking has helped me sort everything out for the better. There have been multiple times before where I wanted to sit down and write out my thoughts, to resp

Tags: dating | life | relationships

Merlin Mann - Scared Shitless

> You can be scared and still do it anyway. Regardless of whatever it is. — Merlin Mann Merlin Mann [http://www.merlinmann.com] gave a talk at Webstock [http://www.webstock.org.nz/] in Wellington, New Zealand in February that has been sweeping around the blogosphere in various ways. It was titled “Scared Shitless [http://www.43folders.com/2011/03/28/scared-shitless].” I first heard about it during his excellent podcast with Dan Benjamin, Back to Work [http://5by5.tv/b2w/6], but couldn’t fin

Tags: fear | life | merlin mann

The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau

Let me start by saying that this is not a formal book review, but more of a discussion of the book. Another Harajuku Moment I believe that the world tells you a message by having certain people or ideas pop up in groups of three. If I come across a certain concept on several different websites or books, that’s a clear message to me that I should probably write about it and share it with others who may not have come across it yet. Over the weekend, several things aligned that could not have been

Tags: 4 hour body | chris guillebeau | life

About Me

I'm James McCullough: entrepreneur, writer, father, and coffee-fueled polymath. Here, I explore big ideas across diverse topics, offering fresh perspectives on our complex world.

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Don't Move, Improve

> Success will come only to those who are willing to have a little blind faith–in themselves, in their art, and in their ability to stand tall and take the world by storm. — Ashley Ambirge, The Middle Finger Project [http://www.themiddlefingerproject.org/resolutions-are-for-chumps-i-choose-revolution/] With 2010 now over, a lot of people have been writing about their meditations on the previous year and what they have planned for the next (examples: Murray [http://www.murlu.com/2011-goals/]

Tags: blogging | fitness | life | writing

On Reading- Gawker, and the Trifecta of Reading

> … Blogs are emphasizing the trait that’s always defined them, the fact that they’re an ongoing flow of information instead of just a collection of published pages. — Anil Dash, Gawker Is A Blog. Just Like Twitter [http://dashes.com/anil/2010/12/gawker-is-a-blog-just-like-twitter.html]. It’s been two months since I last wrote about the importance of reading [http://www.foursides.ca/pausing-to-read-site-design] and how it is changing in the digital age, and I thought it was important to revis

Tags: amazon | iphone | kindle | reading

Pausing to Read - Site Design

> Instapaper does point to a clear flaw in newspaper and magazine website design: The reading experience is rarely, if ever, the priority. For better or worse, it typically takes a backseat to organizing and promoting content and generating pageviews. — Jake Brooks [http://brooksinbeta.com/] Joanne of Tomorrow Museum [http://tomorrowmuseum.com/2010/10/06/instapaper-and-readability-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-design/] pointed me to this article [http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2

Tags: design | reading | work | writing

The Social Network Review

> Marylin Delpy: The site got 2200 hits within 2 hours? Mark Zuckerberg: Thousand. Marylin Delpy: I’m sorry? Mark Zuckerberg: Twenty-two thousand. I saw The Social Network [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034G4P7Q/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0034G4P7Q&linkCode=as2&tag=four0b-20&linkId=JPONPNXGFCO5S64I] tonight with my girlfriend, and I tried to go into the movie with a clear head. After the better part of the year watching the trailers, reading the rum

Tags: facebook | movies | reviews

Breaking the SEO Chains, or The Value of Not Blogging

> There is so much to write that I haven’t written. And I’ll never get to paper. And while it’s frustrating, to worry too much about it is as much a feckless effort as consternation over time passing. It just happens. Joanne McNeil, Tomorrow Museum [http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com] Joanne wrote that quote in her post titled, “Blogging After Not Blogging [http://tomorrowmuseum.com/2010/09/08/blogging-after-not-blogging/trackback/],” and I thought about my own experiences in trying to write som

Tags: digital sabbatical | life | writing

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