Category: General
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Raking leaves in February!
Who rakes leaves in February… Yup, apparently I do.. I got a lot done today on this holiday, and yes, that includes a bit of yard cleanup in the middle of winter. Let the productivity continue!
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Todoist Project Due Dates
So Sometimes I’ve wanted to set due dates for projects inside of todoist. This isn’t something I’ve actually looked into, just something I thought of a few times but then, couldn’t see and easy way to do it and moved on. Today I looked into it a bit more and found a thread where someone…
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Urgency, priorities, and conflicts
Do you ever get super overwhelmed with everything you are supposed to be doing and then realize that you have like 5 things on your plate that are all urgent AND important and all need to be finished yesterday? I recently had this issue. I suddenly felt a ton of anxiety about all the things…
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Rise and Shine
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Losing track of time
This quote stuck out at me the other day: There is a natural progression in life, which everyone knew intimately back in the days when we were an agrarian society. You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today’s world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest. We plant the seed…
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Gratitude in Action
In my short life thus far, I have found that Gratitude is one of the most important things that we can have in our life. If we make a habit to look at all of our blessings and actually think through how important those things are to us, we change the way we think about…
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Growing Through Every Experience
Sometimes in life, we go through really hard experiences. We really have two choices when we are having a bad experience; learn/grow from it, or be hurt by it. The easy, simple response to bad things is to get angry, blame the world, God, stupid people. Those responses do nothing in the big picture. It’s…
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Pick One Thing
One of the problems I have had for a while, is having too many good things to be working on. In a video I watched today, Robin Sharma talked about saying no to other fantastic opportunities. This is hard for me. I often succumb to the shiny object syndrome (where you jump to the next…
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Where do you start?
So if you want to make changes to your life, professionally, physically, spiritually, where do you start? Robin Sharma suggests getting up at 5 AM and staring there. In particular, having your “Holy Hour” (20 mins of exercise, 20 mins of learning/reading, 20 mins of Journaling/gratitude) and that this will help you be “World Class”.…