I am rereading Essentialism right now and the thing that sticks out to me the most so far is the importance of deliberate choice. If you are not deliberate about how you choose to spend your time, someone else will choose for you. In other words, you have to have the strength to say no…
Meaningful Work
Imagining Too Little
Hyperbole isn’t the worst crime. men suffer more from imagining too little than too much. P. T. Barnum in The Greatest Showmanย Visionary leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs show us that the impossible is possible. By default, we imagine too little until someone shows us how to see the world differently. Have confidence. Confidence is the…
Keeping a One-Sentence-a-Day Journal
At the very beginning of this year I heard Ryan Holiday tell James Altucher on a podcast interview that he keeps a one-sentence journal. Since it was the beginning of the year, I thought I would give it a try. I added it to my Morning Preview checklist and starting writing one sentence in an…
The Smallest Possible Task
The second to last item on my Daily Review checklist was to “organize your desk,” which includes the very large stack of papers in my Inbox. My Inbox, inspired of course by David Allen’s book Getting Things Done, is where all of my incoming papers go so that I can process them and decide what…
There is Always a Faster Way
Struggle. Struggle. Struggle. Ready to give up. Then . . . discover a faster way. Accomplish the task with much less effort. I was in a hurry yesterday. I needed to get to Chicago to catch a flight to Los Angeles. I wanted to replace the car seat in our van with a bigger seat…