Haha, yeah I know a few horse people and they would rather be living in poverty than give up the horse.

Cheaper than horses? That made me giggle. I grew up riding horses and showing competitively so I have a pretty good idea of how much those magnificent beasts cost.

Right on brother, preach it! Great guest post… I like how you consider different members of the audience perception of your content. From the low hanging fruit of those who “get you” to those whom you might offend. Challenging for sure, but a thought experiment on empathy each penned post.

Here is a bit (among others) from me on gratitude: https://agoodlifemd.com/getting-hit-truck-gratitude-face-adversity/

Hmm I’ll have to be on the watch now for my next pair of Asics. You’re right, they’ve been consistent for a long time, hope they don’t change. Regarding lasting, I recycle every 350 – 400 miles. My experience is even the more expensive ones lose too much cushion after that, and it’s a stark contrast when you get into a new pair – you don’t realize how much the old ones have been slowly degrading! I use the old ones to cut the grass in 🙂

It is a beautiful area. Joshua tree was amazing, and I wish we had more time to spend there. Such a unique landscape.

Ironically my best post about gratitude is not actually on my blog 🙂

https://www.1500days.com/guest-post-happiest-person-room/

These were not audio books, just text to put on the kindle. The CD was new music – unlikely to be at the library and something my wife will listen to for more than the checkout period even of it was. We actually cut our book spending by about 95% by switching to the library years ago. We are extremely heavy users of our library and consume more value in books and media than we pay in taxes. I should actually write a post on how awesome libraries are.

Sometimes we can find last years shoe at discounts like these online, but depending on the cycle, many times they are sold out or not heavily discounted. I’ve also found that the shoes that are intentionally priced at the $60-70 retail simply do not last as long with heavy miles. Also when a new model comes out the fit can be very different that the previous year. I hate that shoe companies do this, but I’ve had it happen with several companies (including Asics which I used to exclusively run on…they were consistent for so many years though). The good thing is I will be able to track our shoe spending through this experiment and see what obscene percentage of my annual spend they account for!

Thanks for the comment. I will look into increasing the font size. If you hit ctrl +/- this will change the font size in your browser (at least in chrome and firefox) which is a workaround until I figure out how to do it on the blog. I have tried to use more white space in my recent posts for east of reading. Many of my old posts are not all that reader friendly.

Regarding the three step process: Honestly is automatic for me, but just because something is true doesn’t mean it needs to be or even should be said. Honesty doesn’t imply we simply take off the filter and say everything that is true that pops into our heads. I run it through 2 and 3 to determine if it should stay in my head or be released into the world 😉

I pretty sure I do almost everything wrong with blogging. I’m crappy at promotion, I don’t write enough, I constantly change topics, etc. It is easy to get sucked into the “rat race of blogging” and feel bad because everyone else is doing it better. My philosophy is to just write when I feel motivated and about what I want to. If I were to monetize and be reliant on the income I would have to change my strategy 😉 You up for a 30 day no complaining/no negativity challenge? I’m in if you are.