One of my main motivations for starting this blog has been to explore toipcs I don’t really know much about. There are a lot things that I want to know more about, and I will be sharing more these topics in future posts.

I realized tonight that I’ve been really risk-averse when it came to this blog because I am aggressively looking for a job, and I know that when I am sending out my resumes, my potential future employers google me, and read this blog.

It’s too easy to only post safe “sales related” stories (because I am looking for  a sales job) and pictures I’ve taken over the years. But it’s a very incomplete picture of who I am, and if anything, I want to come off as intellectually curious – which means taking enough risks, to make occasional failure/blunder/screw-up a real posssibility.

I feel very lucky to be surrounded by people who are always challenging me to do more, and better, or something new. It’s especially true with running and hiking – but there are also challengers at work and at home.

It’s one thing to set your own goals, but it’s so much more powerful to have a group of people who support you, and whom you support back.

I learned about the book when I saw Mr. McEwan on Charlie Rose:

I need to be more disciplined.