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I honestly don’t know what led me down this path the other day…

I have mentioned this in a few posts, but resting and pacing myself are both things I struggle with. So, reading McKeown’s suggestions in Effortless about establishing lower and upper bounds really spoke to me, “Never less than X, never more than Y.”

Fail Faster. I first encountered this line of thinking when I was working for a non-profit association. Our CEO introduced it to the staff and wanted us to approach all our projects with this concept in mind. At the time, my perfectionist self balked at the idea. Now,...

You like to eat a wide variety of foods.  You like to drink wine or beer (or both no judgment).  You DON’T know or want to know everything about every single thing so that you can pair things properly.

An interesting use for ChatGPT that I came across the other day is to have it predict what your retirement will look like.  I didn’t see any reason why it has to be limited to retirement so I updated the prompt template to apply to any future state.

Have you ever found a different way to approach a problem? Damien and I are always on the lookout for new ways to find solutions. One of the methods we implemented a year or so ago was the use of lateral thinking which looks to solve problems through an indirect and...

Maybe you want to take your party planning and hosting skills to the next level. Maybe the thought of party planning makes you sad, but you have to do it anyway. Either way, you can use an AI tool like ChatGPT to figure out what questions to ask, what things to consider,...

If you have known me for a while, you probably know I am a no-nonsense, no-fluff kind of person. So, reading in Effortless about how McKeown talks about simplifying processes through the use of identifying the minimum steps required to completion, sang to my soul. No fluff...

Full disclosure - I have not tried this yet.  But it’s on the internet, so it must be true…

For anyone who is still here after that comment, let’s press on

At the end of the chapter “Start” in Effortless, McKeown says, “In recent years neuroscientists and psychologists have found that the ‘now’ we experience only lasts 2.5 seconds. This is our psychological present.” While I had some understanding of our present moment only...