Louis' Public Journal

Fall 2020 Bullet Journals

5 Minute Entries Documenting Life

If you don't stop and look around every once in a while...

The Power List

5 Non Negotiable Tasks That Move The Needle

If you get all 5 done, no matter what else happens during the day, you can cross them off and write a big "W" on that piece of paper because you won the day.

Reflect On Every "Chapter" Of Life

Last Day In Scottsdale, Last Day of July, Plans For August, Upcoming Semester

I don't do all this self-reflection without purpose. It's extremely helpful-->you should try it.

Summer 2020 Bullet Journals

Documenting Life Without Writing Essays

These are journal entries on days where I didn't write an accompanying post for the entry. Most recent entries are on top.

3 Good, 3 Improve, 3 Lessons

Buy an Alarm Clock

Lately, I’ve been using my phone as an alarm because I left my physical alarm in Alabama. That means I’m in the habit of setting my alarm at night and turning it off in the morning. It means my phone is the first and last thing I touch, and I don’t like that.

Questioning Modernity This Father's Day

Undoing Modernity - I'm Beginning To Realize How Much We've Gotten Wrong

Our ancestors did not eat seed oils, impossible burgers, naked juice, and hormone-fed livestock. These new foods are the ones that need to prove themselves. What we’ve been eating for thousands of years do not.Buy your processed food with skepticism--or don't buy them at all.

Make Your Mess Your Message

The Most Interesting Thing I Learned Today

To make journaling worthwhile, ask yourself interesting questions. Here’s an easy one: what is one thing I learned today? You can’t claim to know something until you’ve tried to explain it to someone else. Today’s question challenges you to do just that.

More and Less - Two Lists You Need To Make

Ask Yourself Good Questions

The things that make you feel happy, healthy, smart, fulfilled? Reflect on what they are and keep doing them. The things that make you unproductive, unsuccessful, unhealthy, and anti-social? Hit the brakes and swap for something better.

Why You Need To Have A Unified Theory

Are you building toward something?

Elon Musk's genius reputation is amplified when you realize that everything he does is mutually reinforcing in the short and long term. Elon does not know at what point his projects will converge into space colonization. Elon does know that his probability of reaching Mars increases with each of his activities, so he'll stay the course.

3 Easy Questions, 1 Day of 'Hard' Labor

Slam a cold brew and answer these prompts

My dad’s close friend has a concrete business. My dad has always encouraged me to shadow his friend for a day and see what all is involved in the process of finishing concrete. I took that offer today.

Why Does Tempe's Target Sell So Much Tito's

Writing Prompts Are Helpful

This is day four of this experimental “journal in public” format for me. I don’t have a theme to write about, so I created four prompts. Then, I answered them.

Follow One Course Until Successful

Do You Follow Your Own Advice?

I tried to do too many things today. So many books tell the same story. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are at dinner. They are asked what the single most important factor for their success was. Reportedly, they both said “focus.”

Produce More Than You Consume

Make Digital Assets - Start Now

Digital assets are cool. Blog posts are assets. Podcasts are assets. YouTube videos are assets. Designs are assets. You produce them once and over time they continue to bring value as long as the internet exists.

Podcasting As Leverage

Journaling In Public - Number One

I'm dividing the written content on this site between the 'blog' which is a collection of more thoughtfully produced articles and the 'journal' which is more raw and reflective.