Steve's Secret Project, Secret Journey - www.lifelevelup.com

For most of 2011 I played secretly with a new website nominally on the topic of "life hacking".

Life-hacking is just a slightly geeky version of personal development. It tends to see life as a 'system' and then employ insights into the system in order to 'control the system' rather than have the system be in control. Sounds nerdy, right? Also, impossible. As I said, it's really personal development under another name. I think it suits since I approach even personal issues with a Spock-like analytical angle.  

I've read intensely, widely, and desperately in my quest to find a measure of peace and centredness in the chaos, stress, even trauma of school life. Take, for instance, the fragmentation of consciousness that occurs each day due to the rapidly shifting informational, relational, and spacial contexts and agendas. Take your eyes off the ball and you find yourself a bundle of numbness, lost.

I've hesitated to publish much regarding my journey except the "GTD" method of managing workflow. GTD is classic life-hacking, by the way. 

However, in 2011 I ran a day themed "from survive to thrive" which was well-received. I deliberately included highly personal self-development elements in the day. I re-ran it another three times, and grew in confidence regarding the relevance and potential impact of the material.

My biggest fear has been that these lightning-strike insights for me will be already-mastered self-evident truths to others. This is not an unfounded fear! Ask my wife, or anyone who has met me! 

But then I think, heck, people can eat the fish and spit out the bones, right? That's the spirit of blogging - it's a pot-luck lunch and we each offer what we've got.

In that spirit, I'd like to offer you www.lifelevelup.com - a geeky name referring to discontinuous power transitions in computer games! Hyperbole, moi? And yet that's how it has felt for me.

If it sounds interesting, have a glance. You'll find my first three posts, such as this one exploring a method for 'hacking' spacial contexts by mapping physical space to mental states. There's PLENTY MORE where that crazy idea came from.

There's a clearly-marked email subscription box and RSS feed in the right margin if my pot-luck lunch appeals.

Tread carefully, you walk on my soul!