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Farewell for now

Renewal for The Hardest Work is coming up quick, and I do not intend to renew the site. That means this will be the final post for The Hardest Work, but not necessarily the end of my blogging. For those that have enjoyed my posts and followed along, I want to send a big thank you to all of you! It has been incredibly motivating, and liberating, to write on this blog, and all of the support…

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Why Availability Isn't Serving Your Users

Why Availability Isn’t Serving Your Users

Is your service highly available? Is it 99.999% available? The real question is, does it matter? Email Address: Subscribe Availability is defined as the total ‘uptime’ of a given service, over a window of time. This metric is typically counted in minutes, and those with experience in a Software-as-a-Service world, typically want to know, “What’s the Availability of the…

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Knowing When to Jog & When to Sprint On Your Goals

Knowing When to Jog & When to Sprint On Your Goals

In my previous post, Find Your Why, Repeat Your Why I’ve talked about life and motivation working like a roller coaster. That there are going to be up’s and down’s for everyone, and that recognizing this, and knowing how to work with this natural flow, can help you not only overcome the lows, but also to keep things in perspective. Something I’ve found to be incredibly helpful, is understanding…

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The Error Budget

In two of my previous posts I’ve covered the SLO and SLI concepts, if you’re not familiar, I would start there: What is an SLO? What is an SLI? But this post here, is really the cream of the crop when it comes to Site Reliability Engineering. The Error Budget, as it’s so called, is what takes the SLO and the SLI concepts from above, and gives us something actionable to work with. Let’s dive…

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How Do You Know What To Do For Your Workout?

How Do You Know What To Do For Your Workout?

I’ve been asked this question quite a few times so it’s time to get some answers: “What exercises should I do?” I put this post together to help people find a little bit of direction when they’re trying to figure out, what they actually need to be doing to get where the want to go. You are following this blog (manage). The tricky part in all of this, is that, depending on what you want to…

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How To Wake Up Early In Two Steps

How To Wake Up Early In Two Steps

4 AM That’s how early I was waking up and hitting the pavement to run. Every morning… It was crazy, to be honest. But I was extremely motivated for an upcoming 5k that I was competing in and it was giving me huge drive to be up, and running, before work. You are following this blog (manage). Eventually, I was able to run my 5k and still maintain my early routine, but around Christmas I got…

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Fitness Invention Ab Rollers & Row Handles

Fitness Invention Ab Rollers & Row Handles

I’ve recently obtained some new workout equipment (yay Christmas) from Fitness Invention and wanted to provide a follow up on the equipment, it’s quality, and my experience using it. You can catch the unboxing video on my Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJ4Or3vAD9Y/ Let’s start with the Row…

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Write, The Right Tasks Down

Write, The Right Tasks Down

There’s a bit of research available that claims writing down your goals, actually improves your chances of reaching them. I personally think that writing down my own goals has historically helped me find direction, when I had too much going on. Where I struggled wasn’t so much with writing down goals, but writing down the right tasks, to reach those goals. You are following this blog…

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How To Setup A Github Repo For A Unity Project

How To Setup A Github Repo For A Unity Project

If you’re not familiar with using Git you can take a peek at my quick guide Git It? or spend some time browsing the web to get familiar. If you are familiar with Git, you will need to install Git Bash for this tutorial. You can grab a copy of all the necessary install files right here: https://git-scm.com/downloads You are following this blog (manage). The first thing we want to do is setup our…

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Dream Big Long-Term, Work Small Short-Term

Dream Big Long-Term, Work Small Short-Term

When it comes to setting goals and trying to figure out how to reach them, I’ve done my fair share of experimenting (you can see some of the strategies here: The ‘I HAVE To’ List). But of all of the methods I’ve tried, and all of the ones I’ve failed at, there are a couple of things that have stood out as being helpful, across the board. You are following this blog (manage). Dream Big…

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Action Wins

Today’s post is my little victory. It’s not a long post. It’s not a fancy post. It’s not a post with some great tips or a life lesson. It’s just a short post so I can get my little victory in for the day. Consistency matters most.

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3 Key Tips On How To Start a New Habit In 2021

3 Key Tips On How To Start a New Habit In 2021

As New Year’s approaches many people are gearing up for their New Year’s Resolutions. Many are hoping that 2021 can be the year of change. The year that takes all the other years and makes them all look like they were worth waiting for. Yet, there will be many who awaken on a March day in 2021 and find themselves living the same life they were in December 2020. New Year’s resolutions have a way…

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Merry Christmas

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How To Create a Glow Effect In Your Unity 2D Project

How To Create a Glow Effect In Your Unity 2D Project

This process took me entirely too long to actually figure out how to do myself. I even spent a couple of bucks on an solution off the Unity Asset store and still struggled. You are following this blog (manage). I wanted to write this tutorial for anyone else that might want to add glow effects to their projects and to hopefully avoid them having to ride the struggle bus like I did. Take a peek…

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There Is No Finish Line

There Is No Finish Line

How many goals have you set and achieved? What does your success ratio look like? If it’s anything like mine, it’s about 2:9843455…. So why is achieving our goals so difficult? Well there can be a number of different reasons, but I think that ultimately there is one key flaw in our goal setting that is holding us back and I don’t think it has anything to do with the goal itself. You are…

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How To Be More Efficient

How To Be More Efficient

One of the best ways to get ahead in anything that you work on is to find ways to improve efficiency. The faster you can get something done the more time you can put towards working on other important things. I think that’s a pretty straight forward concept to understand but the real trick is identifying what can be improved and how. You are following this blog (manage). Let’s start with what…

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How To Get Past A Plateau

How To Get Past A Plateau

Everyone reaches a plateau eventually. It’s a normal part of the growing process, and not just physically, but in the world around us also. When we attempt to achieve or push towards a new goal and begin to rise, we inevitably hit a plateau moment. And there’s a key a difference in people that continue their growth pattern and those that level off and settle on the plateau. Identify when you’ve…