Seth Comire

Years ago my wife and I decided to hold off on any major home projects until we paid the mortgage off. We didn’t want to refinance to borrow money for projects. All too often our closest friends and family defaulted on their mortgages and lost their homes using that approach. So we persevered.

Nowadays when people hear the term “prepper” they typically think of a redneck gun nut with rebel flags hanging everywhere in their house and a big ass truck with a Trump 2020 sticker on it. I, however, don’t think that way but many do. When I started getting a lot of misplaced hate on my PrepperPath Facebook group, I knew it was time to distance myself from the term.

No other topic hits close to home like this one – overcoming self-doubt. I’ve dealt with it my entire life. I know I’m not alone in this challenge, since self-doubt impacts almost everyone alive. However, my self-doubt has hit an all-time high lately.

It’s been one month since my last post and things have changed in my life. Some of those changes were positive (like getting a puppy) and others were negative. Let’s see if I can capture the last month in chronological order. June 8th was my first day of freedom from

Talk about a nasty, negative headline, am I right? Unfortunately, it perfectly defines how I feel lately. I only recently turned 40 and for the last ten years or so, I promised myself that I would focus on my health and fitness when I turned 40. You see, I used up my 30s focusing on my career and paying off debt. It was a long, tiresome (and depressing) decade for me.

I recently watched a video on YouTube titled, “Making Badass Developers”, which was uploaded in 2015. In the video, O’Reilly Publishing’s author Kathy Sierra presented her thoughts on learning. Her use of sarcasm in the presentation slide deck enhanced the motivational tone of her speech. The video starts off with Sierra explaining how humans (which we all are – we’re not unicorns or humanoids), have “extremely scarce, easily depleted cognitive resources.”