Overcommitting has always been one of my weakest points when it comes to being productive. I regularly initiate, try or say yes to more than I can physically do.
So I’ve started keeping track of just how much time I spend on a given writing project in order to develop a more realistic picture of where [...]
I love the hands-off automated simplicity to personal finance that Ramit Sethi, author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, puts forth in this post. Love it. It’s simple, elegant and would keep me from having to deal with finances very often, which for ill or good I find to be among the most [...]
My bedroom and office doors are about six inches apart at a ninety degree angle. My kitchen is all the way downstairs. I am not a morning person.
What this has meant, traditionally, is that I don’t eat breakfast. I get up, stumble a full three feet to the bathroom, then into the office, where I [...]
Because there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Know these rules before undertaking any project, particularly if it’s a lifestyle design or productivity system one! Even if you plan on breaking them, you’ve got to know them first. Not a day goes by I don’t encounter a situation addressed by at least one of these [...]
I turn 30 in about a month and it’s gotten me thinking about change. Which got me thinking about things like presuppositions and habits. Which made me realize how many of those I have in my life, and how many of them I take as givens.
I’m no longer willing to let faulty presuppositions and bad [...]
Click the image above to download a poster-sized version of this poster. The Cult of Done Manifesto was written by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark, and put into graphic form by Joshua Rothhaas.
“Done is the engine of more” is now my new desktop: