Decipher Yourself Pragmatic Self-Help and Humor for the Disenchanted

About

Odds are, your first impression of this site came from reading an awkwardly-timed blog post. I was either trying to be funny or profound and probably ended up being neither on the lucky day you stumbled by. Sorry about that. While the site is strictly opposed to the notion of mission statements, I’ll try to explain the purpose for this mess:

Decipher Yourself, as the name hopefully implies, is not intended as a simple rambling blog. Sure I’m guilty of doing that from time to time, but that’s not the central purpose. I’m very much a concept person, and while I feel strongly about the “motivational” approach I’m taking, I’m equally opposed to resorting to psychobabble, blind optimism, manipulation or religious overtones you might expect from other such sites.

The ideas that start here are meant to be taken with you. Not every post might have significance for you, but I’m sure that there’s enough food for thought on this buffet for you to want to dig in. If these ideas simply reinforce your own beliefs or thoughts, great. But if the theme of one of these poorly-written, profanity-laced, painfully unfunny pieces is able to challenge you a little, then all the better.

We’re all selfish, lazy people...your host being perhaps the champion of both. That’s my starting point. Addressing how we (you, me and the bulk of humanity) can find depth, meaning or laughter in the topic-of-the-day. But at the same time, I'd hope we are advancing ourselves in a way that is realistic and meaningful.

I feel like these attempts at humor, coupled with unfiltered language really go a long way towards establishing the site as anti-whatever-you-thought-it-was. Because my endgame here has always been to challenge people, to dig deeper and find the “why”s behind the silly things we do.

At the time of this writing, readership is fairly small and I’m less than a month in to the whole project. But your debate and discussion is welcome, whether you’d prefer to post a comment or send an e-mail. In the future you can expect several types of posts to appear: rants, “comedy” pieces, articles, essays, (incredibly) short stories, reviews and the occasional odd special feature.

I'm also planning to offer up a "Daily Themesong" for your consideration, usually a new(ish) track I've stumbled across that may or may not be on your radar already. I've also added a glossary for terms I've coined, for future-lawsuit purposes.

While a majority of my posts are influenced by my own point of view and are often clearly what was rocketing through my head at the time, I really hope that you take away something yourself. I don’t expect or even want everyone to always side with me. I do, however, hope to break through your expectations now and again. I would also hope that even if you only visit once in a while, that you will find yourself thinking about things that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.