Pete Michaud

How to Break Your Limits

Gema is 23 years old and might be gay. She’s not sure. (Not news.) The problem about being maybe-gay is that Gema lives with her hyper-conservative parents, and has no legal rights as an unmarried Muslim woman in Indonesia. She was in a bind. Her parents expect her to find a nice boy (of their...

See-thru Purple Panties

See-thru Purple Panties. Not only are they transparent, but they are embarrassing. It’s not just unadorned nakedness, it’s a type of nakedness that’s deliberate and unabashed. It begs to be seen, it calls attention to your most vulnerable self, and says, Yes, this is me. You know you want...

Make it Obsolete

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller Fuller was, among many other interests, a systems theorist. When he said you have to make parts of a system obsolete to change anything...

Stop Apologizing

This is a note to self. I’m pretty good at not apologizing for who and what I am, but this whole energy work thing got my panties in a bunch. Half of my friends think energy work is obvious. A fact of nature, and of life. The other half unsubscribed from my e-mail list after the essay went out....

Apple Announces iUniverse

Press Release Apple announces the latest and greatest product from the research lab on Infinity Loop. The iUniverse will revolutionize the way we learn, work, love, and grow. The iUniverse offers a totally immersive alternate reality—simply plug the device in to find yourself in any environment, having...

Breakthrough Session June Tour

I recently came out of the closet (to the internet) as an energy healer. To celebrate, I’m doing a tour of the lower half of the US to spread the love. I’m traveling throughout the month of June and into early July (keep reading for a list of cities and dates). I’ve already booked several...

Your House Is a Reflection

I used to live in a cozy, three bedroom bungalow. It didn’t look like much, but the size was acceptable. And even though it wasn’t mine, it felt homey, if temporary. I moved out of that house when I was 21 and I took my teenage brother and sister in. I already had two children of my own, and...

Fear Doesn’t Stop

If you live in the fantasy that life will start once you are no longer afraid, you will be playing the waiting game forever. That’s a quote from the beautiful and brainy Dr. Brenner of A Flourishing Life. She touches on a hugely important point in a recent post: fear isn’t conquered by forcing...

Authenticity Alienates (That’s Okay)

I could brand myself as a business blog and I’d be credible since my retirement story is the the kind of thing that the blogosphere loves to jerk off to. I could talk about technology like I did when I was Ken Sharpe. I could talk about cognitive biases, or philosophy. The list continues. I’m not...

Goal Orientation: Action vs. Outcome

Summary: To achieve an outcome, you have to take action, and that action should be your goal. You can’t directly choose an outcome, but you can always choose to take action. Jason wanted to lose 20lbs. His “goal” was to lose 1.5lbs per week, and he started by just doing “a...