Tag: personal development

  • 2025: Going back to goals

    2025: Going back to goals

    I’ve played around with goals and themes for the past few years. In 2021 it was travel lighter, in 2022 it was amplify and reduce, in 2023 it was reading, and in 2024 it was renewal (yeah, queue the groaning, I know). As you might guess, all of those themes, aside from reading, were pretty…

  • Save others or save yourself?

    Save others or save yourself?

    I’m fond of giving the advice that in order to help others, you must first help yourself, but the opposite is also true. You have to do both.

  • 2023: The year of reading

    2023: The year of reading

    Let’s talk about New Year’s resolutions.

  • Amplify and Reduce Goals for October 2022

    Amplify and Reduce Goals for October 2022

    Another month is here and it’s time to share my ritual (started in April 2022) of monthly habit changes designed around Cal Newport’s strategy for Cultivating a Deep Life (see the past several months for context). Here is my short reflection on September and my plans for October.

  • Amplify and Reduce Goals for September 2022

    Amplify and Reduce Goals for September 2022

    I started a ritual in April 2022 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 August and my plans for September.

  • Amplify and Reduce Goals for August 2022

    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.

  • Amplify and Reduce Goals for July 2022

    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…

  • Amplify and Reduce Goals for June 2022

    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.