If you can use the disruption that you are experiencing to create new positive habits. Great. Go for it. Wake up at 4:30 every morning, do your yoga, eat your almond milk muesli, and crack out a relaxing 1000 words before most people are out bed. If on the other hand, you are distracted by constantly changing rules, responsibilities, and exponential graphs, maybe give yourself a break.
Read MoreI spent the day gardening.
Here is a quick video announcing some plans for my YouTube channel Lucas Unofficial. The audio and video quality aren’t great. The editing is imprecise. I did it on my phone. That’s okay. It’s a warm up.
Read MoreBefore any sporting event, you will see players warming up. They are following some easy routine, swinging their arms to get the blood flowing. They will be jogging, shooting some layups, taking a few easy swings with the bat or club - whatever makes sense for their sport.
Read MoreOften I reach a point in a project where I don’t feel like I have a lot of energy. At this point there are usually many elements to complete and I have to make a decision about what to do next. Every task, it seems, relies upon already having completed another task… I have found a way to get past this point with ease.
Read MoreSo you start with an idea, and you think it might be a great idea. Maybe it’s the idea for your bestselling novel that you haven’t written or for the app that you haven’t made that will change the world. You build on this idea in your head and it becomes more and more complex. Soon you are sure It’s your best ever idea idea, but you realize that any work that you do to try to get it out into the real world cannot possibly live up to the idea in your head.
Read MoreThe timer gives a deadline. It lets you know that now is the time to start. It lets you know how much time you have left. It gives you a chance to stop and evaluate the completeness or incompleteness of your work. Like practicing music with a metronome, it helps provide a rhythm.
Read MoreWithin 20 minutes of coming up with this idea for a blog post while cooking my lunch, I listened to an episode of Seth Godin’s podcast Akimbo and he brought up the idea of mise-en-place as an example of how to use placebos on yourself.
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