“You can do anything, but not everything.” - McKeown

At the beginning of this quarter, one of my ABC Model goals was to write no less than three and no more than five posts per week (one of the tactics from Effortless that I wrote about in Book Brew 43). While I have written a few posts so far this quarter, they haven’t been...

I know I am not alone in thinking that our world is now full of constant distractions, mostly digital (even as I am sitting here there is the distraction of the email notification indicator, a Roomba doing its thing, and the noise of a TV in the distance).

I feel a bit behind the times with this, but the information is still valuable to me, even if it is decades old. I recently read about Covey’s concept of a Time Management Matrix, in which tasks/goals are placed into four quadrants based on importance and urgency (see...

Automate. Automate. Automate. I keep coming across this theme more and more frequently, and I have been working to embrace it wherever I can.

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?

Last year, Damien introduced me to Dan Sullivan’s ABC Model, which is a method to help you shift your time, energy, and focus on activities that fascinate and motivate you, rather than ones that are irritating or just okay. We both liked the model so much that we adopted...

Do we even have our own thoughts anymore?  Or do we spend too much time consuming and not enough time thinking? In a sense, becoming thought zombies.