I learned something new today, and for me, that is a win! McKeown introduces the concept of the Swedish Death Cleaning. This is a process by which you get “rid of clutter you have accumulated through your life while you are still alive. It’s an alternative to the more...
Yesterday, I wrote about some steps to combat the siren song of procrastination. Today, I’ll discuss one of those tactics in more detail—just take the first step.
Procrastination—oh, your song is so sweet, and we all fall for it now and again (some more often than others). But how do we combat your siren song?
What is more powerful than giving someone the full power of your attention?
Interesting observations today on focus and distractions. In Effortless, McKeown explains how Steph Curry trained and focused more on neurological improvements than other players. At first, the way he described Curry’s training sounded like some uber level of multitasking...
Still, on the thread of rest that I talked about in yesterday’s post, I mentioned how important sleep is for, well, everything in our lives.
An ongoing discussion that Damien and I have is around my need to “do” (mentioned in a few other posts) and how I don’t know how to just “rest” or “relax.” The chapter I read this morning in Effortless was titled “Rest: The Art of Doing Nothing.”...
One of the books that has had the most impact on me (and one that I have read multiple times) is A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine. After being introduced to Stoicism by reading one of Ryan Holiday’s books (I can’t recall if I read ...
Today, I’m heading down a path of reexamining my daily gratitude practice. Incorporating this daily practice has been a habit of mine for many years and continues to be reinforced in the books I have read over the years (see a list at the bottom). In one of the chapters I...
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