If you're trying to establish or maintain a habit, here's a quick rule of thumb: Do not do for three days what you don't want to do forever. (Or, if you prefer, do not skip for three days straight what you want to do forever.) For example, if your goal is to write...
You've worked hard at setting specific, measurable, realistic goals… but you still aren't taking any action on them. So you go out and purchase an ebook or enroll in an e-course that offers information, inspiration, and/or community support around your goals....
If something is important enough to make you feel harried, stressed, anxious, distracted, unsettled (etc. etc.), shouldn't it also be important enough for you to make time and space to properly act on it? The logical answer is yes, but part of what keeps us caught in...
Have you ever noticed that when you're around a chronically busy person, someone who's constantly flying by the seat of their pants, always in a rush, perpetually acting like they're two steps behind where they need to be… you feel that way too? Busy is...
When we feel busy, our reaction is often to hurry. We have a lot to do, so we try to speed up accordingly. We try to move faster, think quicker, get stuff done more rapidly. Interestingly, the converse is true too: when we hurry, we tend to feel busy. We're running...
After moving into my house, there were a lot of boxes to unpack. The sheer number of boxes — not to mention the quantity of stuff inside the boxes — was daunting. Day after day, I'd resolve to unpack the boxes. And day after day, I'd sort of wander around...