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Focus Enemy #3: Overwhelm (and 4 Tips to Regain Control)
I’d been looking forward to this day for over a year. Last week, it finally arrived. I’d been trying to create some space in my schedule for large blocks of uninterrupted time to focus exclusively on the things I want and need to do to build my writing/coaching business. As I finished up one ...
The Excellence Experiment – Week 9 Update
Just the Stats: Writing for 1 hour: 46/54 days Reading/studying for 1 hour: 39/54 days Shopping and other personal care stuff 1 afternoon each weekend: 5/9 Fitness: Up to 11 push-ups/day (from 3); Increased to 3 minutes/day of ab exercises (from 1 minute) Running: Still at 3.0 miles/run (up from ...
The Limelight Effect: Are You the Captain of Your Fate? Or the Victim of Fate?
Have you ever had one of those moments when you read or heard something, and all of a sudden everything made sense? Like the mystery of the universe, or at least your universe, finally revealed itself? I had one of those moments recently when I was reading the book “Succeeding ...
Focus Enemy #2 – Electronic Distractions
Recently I was thinking back on how much simpler life was when I was growing up, before the days of personal computers much less smart phones. Maybe I’m just at that stage in life where you start to get nostalgic about the way things used to be, but it seems ...
The Excellence Experiment – Week 6 Update
Just the Stats: Writing for 1 hour: 31/36 days Reading/studying for 1 hour: 25/36 days Shopping and other personal care stuff 1 afternoon each weekend: 4/6 Fitness: Up to 9 push-ups/day (from 3); Increased to 2 minutes/day of ab exercises Running: Still at 3.0 miles/run (up from 2.5 miles) at ...
Focus Enemy #1: Multitasking
When your to-do list is overflowing, the idea of knocking out several things at the same time sounds really appealing, right? It seems like it should be the most efficient way to use our limited time. I know I fall for this argument regularly. In college I used to study ...
Focus: Being Fully Present in the Moment
Most of the time, I’m about as focused as a squirrel-obsessed dog in the woods during nut-gathering season. I’m chasing one idea, but then another pops up and I follow it, until another thought distracts me again and I’m off in yet another direction. But every once in a while, ...
The Excellence Experiment – Week 3 Update
Just the Stats: Writing for 1 hour: 18/18 days Reading/studying for 1 hour: 14/18 days Shopping and other personal care stuff 1 afternoon each weekend: 3/3 3 successful shopping expeditions and 1 less-than-successful attempt to imitate a YouTube tutorial on how to curl hair Fitness: Up to 6 push-ups/day (from ...
4 Steps to Making Time for Your Dream
I’ve had a lot of dreams in my life. Big dreams. Exciting dreams. Life changing dreams. Sadly, most of them never came to life – not because I didn’t have the ability or resources, but because I put them off for some mythical day in the future “when I have ...