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My current state of affairs: business strategy, indefinite world travel, and...

I was about to send this post as an email to my family and then realized it’d make for a great public blog post to just share a little bit about where my head is currently at, and maybe give you some...

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How has YOUR life changed in the past 5 years?

I read an article today that suggested taking time to think about how your life (and business) have evolved over the course of 5 years. I decided to do the exercise, and was floored by it. The goal of...

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Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is a feat of strength, not weakness.

I got emotionally triggered today. This post follows the process I went through of feeling vulnerable, scared, and weak, before realizing that taking that scary step into the unknown actually takes a...

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Stillness and tips for self-forgiveness after regression

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Getting lost in Venice (an allegory for life)

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What has been the highlight of my travels thus far?

I’ve had a lot of people ask me this question, and when a friend asked me today, I actually had a good answer that I thought would be nice to log here. One big highlight of the trip so far, if I am...

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Friday Night ZachWisdom™: Finding Encouragement in the Face of Doubt.

Once you’ve had your first fleeting “taste” of something, and have not yet had it again — whether it’s a unique aspect of the relationship with your ex, your first (and only) sale so far in your...

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Happiness by myself, and the correlation with consistent yoga practice

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Boobs at yoga: a welcome or unwelcome distraction?

The goal of today’s post is simple: I’d like to get to the bottom of whether or not awesome boobs are a healthy distraction for me at yoga. The back story here is that the woman behind me at yoga today...

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Living in Harmony vs. in Tension, Guilt, and Struggle

I’ve had an interesting past week. Interesting in that it’s been in many ways unpleasant — a sort of throwback to days of yore when I was always stressed about money and always feeling like I wasn’t...

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Ubud, Bali for digital nomads: better than Chiang Mai?

I’m just coming out of a week-long yoga retreat here in Bali, and had my first work day today. If you’d asked me a few days ago whether I thought Bali was as good as Chiang Mai for digital nomads, I...

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Travel mishaps & releasing the need for control

I’ve had some travel shenanigans ensue over the course of these past couple days, and there would appear to be more to come. How would you feel if you had two flights canceled in as many days? Angry?...

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Solutions to life’s woes only ever come from within

Where My Head/Life is At Right Now Today marks one year from the day I first landed in France on a one-way ticket to embark on the journey of a lifetime. And isn’t it fitting that the very things I was...

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The relationship between my social anxiety and low self worth (and what I’m...

Group situations with no shared interest pretext — e.g. a bar or club vs. a rock climbing meetup — have always been scary for me. In this video I share a relationship I’ve observed between that fear...

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The way you THINK someone feels about you is actually just a reflection of...

The “Too Long, Didn’t Read” Short Version You can never know what somebody else thinks or feels about you. When you draw a conclusion about how they think/feel, you’re partly doing it with your...

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How to get out of your own way and actually do the things you care about

For the past few years, it’s been a big priority for me to be creating stuff — app, games, that sort of thing. And as each year has passed with me falling short of my goals in that area, it has become...

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How it’s felt detoxing from coffee, ADHD medication, sugar, bread, dairy,...

Table of contents: Background Info | About the Experiment | Daily Logs | Experiment Conclusion & Takeaways TL;DR 7/19/17 – I am SO glad I decided to go on this experiment! It’s been a few weeks...

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Chiang Mai Songkran 2018 (Video)

Nadz and I rented Mobikes and toured around Chiang Mai’s best spots this year for Songkran, and I spent enough time editing the damned footage that I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least post it on my blog.

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