Note: Despite the date, this is not an April Fool’s joke.
Almost exactly three months ago, I stopped blogging, pretty much stopped using Twitter, stopped doing most of my daily habits, stopped worrying about my goals, and started working 14-16 hours per day on MightyBrand, a new startup that I’ve been toiling away at for awhile. [...]
I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions, both because they’re cliche, and because they’re usually ineffective. People load up on goals and programs and life changes in the first two weeks of January and by February 1st, they’re back to their same old bad habits. In general, I think people try and take [...]
I discovered Getting Things Done back in the summer of 2006, just after I graduated from college and moved to San Francisco. Since then, I’ve used it on and off to manage my time and my tasks. I’ve learned a lot about myself and how I work in the process, which I’ll detail in a [...]
Well, after the bloodbath that October was, November could only be better. And it was. I worked very hard to stay on top of my daily habits and the results speak for themselves:
Out of 20 days for my seven habits (I do them mon-fri), I did them 100% of the time, up from 33% last [...]
I read an interesting article on procrastination today and I thought I would share some of my thoughts (surprise, surprise). The article covered some of the latest research regarding procrastination and why we do it, as well as techniques that might help deal with it. Nothing really new or groundbreaking, but it’s always helpful to [...]
This Sunday, I’m participating in a 10k. It will be my first organized 10k, which is one of my goals for the month. As it’s been years since I last ran that far, I’ve been working on preparing. I decided I’d better run a “practice” 10k of my own, and since I had another goal [...]
We all have dreams. We all aspire and hope. But sometimes we’re too cautious with sharing those dreams and visions with others. Perhaps we fear they’ll steal our ideas. Perhaps we feel people will secretly laugh at us because they think our dreams unrealistic or our hopes naive. But mostly, we avoid sharing our dreams [...]