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Don’t break the chain, except when you need to
I’m a big fan of consistency. I’m a believer that small daily habits add up to monumental achievements. It’s well known that the comedian Jerry Seinfeld said his advice to anyone getting started was to write every day and “don’t break the chain”. Write a joke every day. Draw something every day. Run every day.…
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Amplify and Reduce Goals for August 2022
I started a ritual last April of monthly habit changes designed around Cal Newport’s strategy for Cultivating a Deep Life. I’ve noticed a difference in my daily experience and I’ve been enjoying sharing the process for the past several months. Here is my short reflection on July and an even shorter setup for August.
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Amplify and Reduce Goals for July 2022
I started a ritual last April of monthly habit changes designed around Cal Newport’s strategy for Cultivating a Deep Life. It’s truly made a difference in my daily experience and I’ve been enjoying the process for the past several months of sharing what I want to amplify and what I want to reduce. It’s time…
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Amplify and Reduce Goals for June 2022
In April I started to experiment with some monthly habit changes designed around Cal Newport’s strategy for Cultivating a Deep Life. April felt good, May was better yet, so I’m going to keep it going for the third month. Time to reflect and set up some new habits for June.
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Amplify and Reduce Goals for May 2022
Last month I started to experiment with some monthly habit changes designed around Cal Newport’s strategy for Cultivating a Deep Life. April felt good, so on that measure alone, I would count the first month a success. It’s a new month now so time to reflect and set up some new habits for May.
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Amplify and Reduce Goals for April 2022
I’ve said in the past that I’m all about habits and experimenting with personal improvements as opposed to setting big long-term goals like the much-dreaded new year’s resolution). The trouble is that I haven’t done much in the habit change department in a long time. It’s time to change that.
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Savor the night instead of stealing from it
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. Ursula K. Le Guin Tell me if this sounds familiar: the morning started with grand plans and although you got some things done, you quickly progressed into a busy day at work, having to look after the kids, running around to appointments and errands, or some…
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What I learned last week (#97)
Learned last week: Not freaking out about the election, faking it to make it, the wonder of the cosmos, and more!
