Reading Time: < 1 minOver the next few days, you’re likely to be inundated with emails from companies that you haven’t heard from in a while. It’ll be irritating to receive them all, but it’s a great opportunity — don’t just delete those emails, but take a few seconds to unsubscribe. Maintaining control of your inbox is an increasingly […]
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The two types of failure
Reading Time: < 1 minIn Atul Gawande’s amazing book “The Checklist Manifesto“, he suggests that there are two types of failure in the world. The first is ignorance—we may err because science has given us only a partial understanding of the world and how it works. There are skyscrapers we do not yet know how to build, snowstorms we […]
It’s just not a priority for me
Reading Time: 2 minThere’s another side to being so “busy”, and that’s when it comes to excuses. There are very few situations where you’re ever “too busy” for something. The only two I can think of are: If you’re in jail. If you’re in the hospital. buy cytotec online http://aloeveracosmetics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cytotec.html no prescription The rest of the time, your […]
My list of daily goals
Reading Time: 2 minA few weeks back I started tracking a list of daily goals. These are separate from any to-do items I might have, and unrelated to anything on my calendar. They’re simply a list of things I’d like to accomplish every day. As of today, it’s a list of four main goals with five sub-goals in […]
My big reading shortcut
Reading Time: 2 minOver the past year I’ve been trying to read a lot more. I’ve succeeded in reading quite a few books, but I’m also “semi-reading” quite a few more. Michael Simmons has coined this as Fractal Reading, and while I don’t follow his practice exactly, it’s pretty close. Full books First, there are some books that […]
Blogging beats journaling
Reading Time: 2 minA recent episode of the Focus On This podcast talked about the benefits of writing a daily journal and they were spot on. The three benefits they highlighted were to: Learn from your own life. Train your mind. Cultivate your self-awareness. You can listen to their full episode to dig more deeply into each of […]
Priorities? Priority.
Reading Time: < 1 minWhen building websites, we help our clients determine what the main purpose of each page of the site is for. At times, it can be difficult to narrow down to a single goal. At rare times, it gets a out of control and “everything on the page is important”. If everything on a page is […]
Blend It All
Reading Time: 3 minThere’s a thought that everyone should have a clear “work/life balance” — one part of your life is work, one is personal, and never the two shall cross. While that may be necessary for some of us, for most I think it can be a nice blending of the two. I see three areas where […]
Always Treat Next Week Like Vacation
Reading Time: < 1 minYou know the feeling. It’s Friday afternoon, the big vacation starts in a few hours, and you’re flying around the office getting things done. At the end of the day, you feel great, and you know it’s because vacation is starting. And you’re right — but that’s not the only reason. You also probably feel […]
Calendar containers instead of calendar blocks
Reading Time: 4 minFor years I’ve mostly understood the value of building “calendar blocks”, but I’ve always resisted. I know some people that use them and use them well, but something just didn’t work for me. However, a few weeks ago Jason Blumer presented them as calendar containers instead instead of calendar blocks, and it all suddenly clicked […]