Reading Time: < 1 min You have a choice today to push forward toward your goals, or to just continue on with the status quo. Whether you push forward today or not, either way you’ll be a day older. Julia Cameron used an excellent question to explain this in her book “The Artist’s Way”. Suppose you’re considering learning to play […]
Encouragement
Do it every day
Reading Time: < 1 min A few months ago, I talked about how I push for “always” to help achieve “usually”, meaning there are some things that I try to do every day simply to make sure they get done sometimes. While reading Molly Beck’s excellent book “Reach Out“, she shared a quote from Gretchen Rubin’s blog that is a […]
Only one person can change me
Reading Time: < 1 min In recently reading the book “QBQ” (the “Question Before the Question”, which I discussed a bit here), much of it felt similar to some of the ideas in “The Daily Stoic“. The books come from completely different directions, but end up focusing on one idea — you are responsible for yourself. QBQ had a few […]
Don’t wait to be told
Reading Time: < 1 min I recently finished reading John Miller’s excellent (and rather short) book QBQ (The Question Behind the Question). The focus of the book is about taking responsibility rather than handing out blame, even when blame feels like it might be more appropriate. One piece of taking responsibility is choosing to push things forward without waiting for […]
Keep tapping
Reading Time: < 1 min The ability to focus is often very underrated (“I multitask very well!“), but it’s key to getting deep work done. If you can stay focused on your main goals with minimal distraction, you’ll reach them much more quickly. To be honest, this is something I often struggle with. In Seth Godin’s classic book “The Dip“, […]
Lightning will strike soon, right?
Reading Time: < 1 min It can be easy to wait for inspiration to strike before you write your next blog post or record your next video. Many times, though, the waiting will never end. Prior to 2020, I generally blogged when I “felt inspired”. I intended to post a few times a week, but usually only posted once a […]
Slow growth is stable
Reading Time: < 1 min When we’re starting something new, many of dive in completely. Workouts go from 0 to brutal. Reading goes from 2 books/year to 2 books/week. Running goes from never to 20 miles/week. Most often, we burn out and these all end quickly and poorly. You need to decide, particularly early on in a new venture, to […]
The best coaches have very few social media followers
Reading Time: < 1 min I heard the title of this post on a recent episode of “The Long and The Short Of It”, and I’ve been pondering it ever since then. Here is the full text of what Pete said on the show: It was in the health and fitness space, there was a strength coach that I follow […]
Post-COVID
Reading Time: < 1 min I made it most than two years without contracting COVID, thanks to a good degree of caution, mask-wearing, and vaccines, but it finally caught me last week and knocked me down. All in all it wasn’t too bad, but it was rough enough that I had to end my daily blogging streak at 620 days. […]
First, go fail 49 times
Reading Time: < 1 min It’s surprising to me how often “fail more” can be a great way to help a person ultimately succeed. Seth Godin says that if you’re struggling to come up with a good idea, to “show me all of your bad ideas first“. I’ve even tried to “fail” on purpose at times; when trying to find […]