The How To Matter Blog – By Jeb Dickerson

Is so simple, despite thoughts to the contrary. I was reading through some old content on this site recently – posts, quotes and postcards. In all honestly, I was dumbfounded. A lot of it just didn’t make sense to me. “What did I mean by that?”, I kept asking myself. And I started to get [...]

Sometimes it feels like walking through mud. Each step a challenge, and as often as not, I stumble. But even progress feels labored, and then there’s the matter of still being knee deep in filth that seems to rob me of whatever pride might linger from my modest success. And this is how the light [...]

The gap of generations takes but a moment to bridge as the touch of his finger makes its way along the ridge of my brow. And in that exchange of energy lies the ability to move mountains, to leave behind the destructive influence of experience and pursue the fountain of hope and optimism. But soon [...]

When we set out in search of something, and ask others if they might be it, it’s incumbent upon us to follow through, to live up to our end of that promise. Not doing so doesn’t just represent an individual failure, it erodes the foundation upon which our society sits. It creates and encourages disingenuousness, [...]