Drift looks harmless. Comfortable even.
Days fill up. Responsibilities stack up. Good intentions stay just that…intentions.
And somewhere along the way, the life we want to build gets replaced by the one that happened to us.
Like John Lennon wrote, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
This site is an effort to fix that tendency in my own life. Not with hype or formulas. And definitely not with some “10 step plan” or “secret hack.”
Just with some deliberate thinking about how to live with more intention. How to live a life of faith, service, community, and the long path to becoming someone you’re actually proud to be.
I write as a form of therapy…a way to slow myself down and think about things rather than simply react. There aren’t a lot of perfected stories or highly-crafted writings, just:
- Essays I write to help me structure my thinking about life’s challenges
- Reflections on my faith, relationship with God, and what I’m learning every day
- Discussions about the projects I’m working on driven by my curiosity, skill-building, and service
I don’t write because I have everything figured out.
I write because I’m trying to stop drifting and choose where I want to go and the person I want to be more intentionally…more deliberately.
If that resonates with you, you’re welcome here.
My Top Three
What I’ve found to be most worthwhile and most drift prone
Living My Faith Daily
Finding out what it looks like to let faith quietly guide my life, business, family, and the way I serve.
Taking Care of My Health
Choosing to be more intentional about food, physical and mental health, and relationships.
Working on Stuff I Like
Striving to be more interested and curious. Continually learning new things.
Rethinking What Success Looks Like — to me
I spent years pursuing what success was supposed to be — advancing, earning, building, accumulating.
Somewhere along the way, it became clear that even when I was “in charge,” I was still following a script I’d never stopped to question.
The script didn’t get me to fulfillment or contentment, it led to depression, anxiety, and burnout.
Lately, I’ve been more interested in asking better questions than chasing better titles — and in deciding, deliberately, what kind of life is worth building.
Todd Temaat
My Most Recent Work
Why I Was Working But Making No Progress (and What Fixed It)
Why Your ChatGPT Images Keep Getting Worse (and the Simple Fix That Changes Everything)
Living in Yesterday’s Provision
Living in Healthy Tension
In Case We Haven’t Met
Here’s a little more about me
I’m Todd Temaat, a retired U.S. Air Force officer, digital entrepreneur and founder of Servant Publishing, where I build AI tools and publish websites — including this one, where I write about faith, health, long-term thinking, and the projects I’m working on.
I previously founded, operated, and exited Junk Platoon in Edmond, Oklahoma (2020-2024) and Zippy Shell Fox Valley in North Aurora, Illinois (2013-2015). I served in the the Air Force from 1990-2011.
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