A personal knowledge management system captures your thoughts and keeps them working for you. It’s part notebook, part database, and part writing assistant. For content creators, your second brain can be your best friend if you spend quality time with it. How you put your thoughts in your second brain is of course up to … Read more
My wife encourages me to talk to myself. She’ll be downstairs on the couch with our dog Pippa and I’ll be up in the office in front of my Blue Yeti, talking to no one except the speech processor. She’ll occasionally hear when I’m talking up there. She won’t hear what I’m saying, but she … Read more
Turn the ordinary into the extraordinary Gratitude journaling is simply writing what you’re grateful or thankful for. It’s regular reminders of the blessings in your life. I’m on a two-day streak with my gratitude journaling. (That counts, right?) Last night I was tired but managed to write this in my journal after spinning my wheels … 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