Adapt my experiment to increase your completion rate You’ve heard it not one, but two million times: Show up consistently and do the thing. If you’ve had trouble showing up consistently to do the thing, but want to, it saps your desire to succeed and keeps you up at night. Allow me to show you … Read more
No pictures, I wouldn’t do that to you I take a shower shortly before I go to bed. I can hear you all thanking me for telling you that. (Not!) The personal cleaning mechanics of my shower are completely uninteresting, and I can definitely hear you thanking me for sparing you those details. I would … Read more
The big rocks won’t fit themselves in. Lack of focus cost me millions of dollars with my website. My blog was one of the original “money blogs” in 2005. A number of my blogging buddies and I were putting out content and running our websites for our five-to-nine. For the rest of that decade, our … Read more
My wife is solidly a paper person. She’s written three books of fiction totaling about three quarters of a million words. Most of her research and drafts for these books are in binders, journals, folders, notebooks, and photocopies. I’m more of a technology person. I have some notebooks but I store a lot more in … Read more
Not one week after saying I needed to form a habit journal more, I was going to let it slide. I was in our bedroom, sitting in my chair at about 1:15 AM with my phone doing Wordle and Connections. (How many bad habits can you count there?) I really should get my journal and … Read more
It’s difficult to read self-help or productivity articles for very long without learning about the wonders of journaling. I’ve read this advice at least a hundred times by now. Whatever the flavor of journaling happens to be, they recommend making it habit and rolling it into a daily routine. Looking back on the past year, … Read more