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When Fear Backs Down

by Matt | 1 Year Sabbatical | Nov 27, 2012 | Overcoming Fear, Sabbatical

Taking a three month sabbatical requires overcoming a certain number of fears. There was the fear of flying, the fear of getting sick, the fear of running out of money, the fear of dying. I could go on and on here but the point is that we all have certain fears...

You Can’t Control the Pitch

by Matt | 1 Year Sabbatical | Sep 20, 2011 | Overcoming Fear

Honestly I don’t like baseball. If I’m flipping through the channels and hit a station airing a baseball game I just keep right on flipping. I’ve been to a few games and I did enjoy myself but I think a large part of that enjoyment was all the beer I drank which...

Escaping the Death Star in Your Life

by Matt | 1 Year Sabbatical | Aug 13, 2011 | Overcoming Fear

You are a Jedi Knight (seriously, you are). You have been enslaved on the Death Star for years but are implementing your escape plan. You are now stealthily searching for the controls to the tractor beam that is keeping your ship from escaping the hangar so you can...

Fear Buster Episode 1 – Mark Powers

by Matt | 1 Year Sabbatical | Jun 23, 2011 | Overcoming Fear

This post is an interview with my good friend Mark Powers and is part of a Fear Buster series I am putting together and will be posting on occasion. So without further delay here is the interview with Mark Powers, our first Fear Buster! Mark, thanks for taking the...

Having Kids Means the End to Travel

by Matt | 1 Year Sabbatical | Jan 28, 2011 | Kids, Overcoming Fear, Sabbatical, Travel

This article has been written as part of the ‘Life Beyond Norms’ series; a collaborative project aimed at dispelling societal norms that have been handed down, or unwittingly thrust upon us. This is an attempt to provide thoughts against these norms to...

1 Year Sabbatical – 2010 Review

by Matt | 1 Year Sabbatical | Dec 30, 2010 | Financial, Lifestyle, Overcoming Fear, Planning, Sabbatical, Updates

As we prepare to usher out 2010 and welcome in 2011 I can’t help but look back on how far this blog has come since first starting in September. Yes, it’s hard to believe that this blog is less than 6 months old. When I first started this I’m not sure I really...