Thoughts Brewing Blog

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?

Are we helping, or are we judging?

Don’t know where to start with your next social media ad campaign?  Use this prompt template to hit the ground running -

If you have problems now or plan to have some one day,  a root cause analysis may be just what you need.

What is more powerful than giving someone the full power of your attention?

If you need Microsoft Excel functionality that is not built in then you may be able to use ChatGPT or a similar AI tool to create a VBA macro for you.

This tip is slightly more advanced because it requires a working knowledge of Excel and at least basic programming.  

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.

Prompt frameworks offer a quick way to feed the information into ChatGPT.

RTF is a short, general-purpose framework.  It stands for Role, Task, Format.

My Struggle with Rest

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.”...