Least Important: Tips and tricks and hacks and shortcuts.
Very Important: Habits and routines. Your daily actions and behavior. Your system of execution.
Most Important: Vision and values. Your purpose, your priorities, your why.
Least Important: Tips and tricks and hacks and shortcuts.
Very Important: Habits and routines. Your daily actions and behavior. Your system of execution.
Most Important: Vision and values. Your purpose, your priorities, your why.
Your annual reminder that these little microfiber cloths are the best. I have them stashed all around my house and use them for cleaning my glasses clean and my camera lens. They’re cheap, and I replace them about once or twice a year.
In his book, Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster lists several principles for the outward expression of simplicity. These are things which someone could use or do in their attempt to flesh out the meaning of simplicity in the modern life.
Here are six of Foster’s suggestions:
The definition of “overwhelm” is pretty intense, actually. It means:
When you’re feeling buried under a mass of so much stuff, and you feel as if you’ve been given too much of a thing, it can feel as if you’re responsible for everything in the whole world. But it is liberating when you step back and get clarity about the things that ONLY YOU can do.
Seinfeld is brilliant and fascinating. I love his approaches and discipline for consistently shipping creative work. Systematize, remove distractions, focus, show up every day…
Habit Trackers are vastly underrated. Why? Because results come from consistency over time. Any singular, small action that is done once will not produce any meaningful results in your life. This is true for good actions as well as bad actions. Using a habit tracker is one of the best ways to stay focused and on track with the small actions that drive meaningful results in your life. (If you’re not a Notion user, we also have a habit tracker built in to our 2023 Planner.)
Twyla Tharp’s morning workout routine is an inspiration.
Few people enjoy hopping out of bed and going directly to a workout. So, Twyla “cheated” by making it easier to get started.
In her book, The Creative Habit, Twyla shares that her morning routine was NOT to go to the gym. Instead, it was far more simple: wake up, put on sweats, go outside, hail a cab to the gym.
The thing she is actually trying to do — exercise — was not the thing she committed to do each day. Instead, she focused on getting herself out of her apartment and into a cab. Once she was in the cab and on her way to the gym, the inertia took it from there.
If you focus on the very first steps of the starting line, it can be much easier to just get started.
Science shows that “giving compliments in relationships makes both expressers & recipients feel more positive than they expect to feel”.
By the way, have I told you how awesome you are?
Quick wins are rarely the elements of a long-term strategy.
Here are a few alternatives to what I call the “Just Checks”.
Take advantage of those moments of down time in between meetings, calls, or whenever. Allow your mind to rest for a bit or engage it by doing something active and positive.
My pal Brad sent me a box of these 10 years ago and the rest is history.
A Zero Time Habit is a new term I’ve been noodling on. In a nut, a Zero Time Habit is a lifestyle practice that takes ZERO time to do and, in return, it gives you back more time / energy.
Many habits require time to complete — such as your workout routine, reading, journaling, scheduling your week and your day, etc. But some habits require no time at all.
Examples of Zero Time habits:
Think of a Zero Time Habit as something you don’t do so that you can do more of what you want.