Creating a Life Roles-Based System: Exploring Alternatives to an Overnight Retreat

Reading Time: 5 minutesFor the past two years, I’ve been using a life intentionality system based on my life roles. It defines what’s important to me, and helps me evaluate how I’m doing each week and make needed adjustments. David Sparks describes the system in his Personal Retreat Video and Planning Pdf. He suggests that to set up …

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The Value of Celebrating Our Wins

Reading Time: 4 minutesTodd Henry wrote, “You should celebrate wins. In fact, I’m a firm believer in celebrating often.” Daily Creative: Find Your Inspiration to Spark Creative Energy and Fight Burnout. I’ve heard this productivity advice before, but never really thought about it or implemented it. Confession Time — I Don’t Often Celebrate My Wins I’m not good …

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Trusting Your Capabilities: How to Acknowledge Your Accomplishments and Embrace Your Potential

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn The Practice: Shipping Creative Work, Seth Godin writes, “It’s time to start training the boss that is you. Time to start trusting your self, trusting the process, and trusting that you are actually as capable as you are.” Godin encourages us to trust ourselves and our capabilities. Trusting in our capabilities means we don’t …

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Intentionally Creating A Minimalist Home

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen we discuss intentional living, we typically discuss topics like relationships and work. However, we can also be intentional in creating the type of environment we’re the most comfortable living in — our homes. Clutter Stresses Me Out Some people seem to enjoy living with lots of clutter, but that’s not me. I feel more …

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Complexity is a Positive: Why We Need to Demand and Support it in Today’s World

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn today’s quote, Adam Grant writes, “As consumers of information, we have a role to play in embracing a more nuanced point of view. When we’re reading, listening, or watching, we can learn to recognize complexity as a signal of credibility. We can favor content and sources that present many sides.” In our fast-paced world, …

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How to Create an App-Based Morning Routine That Will Jump-Start Your Productive Day

Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve been using an app-based morning routine for over a year now. I start out every day sitting comfortably on my living room sofa with my iPad Pro and a cup of coffee. Everything that I do in my morning routine is waiting for me in one place — the apps on my iPad. I’ve …

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Why I Sold My iPad Mini

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 6th generation of the iPad mini is, without question, the darling of the Apple tech crowd. Recently I listened to yet another podcast discussing the iPad mini. All of the comments were positive, with not a single negative point coming up. Many Apple tech enthusiasts seem to be using the iPad mini as their …

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Great Customer Service with Hookmark

Reading Time: 2 minutesHookmark is an app that enables you to link together all kinds of documents with easily applied unidirectional and bidirectional links. Its real value is that it works with almost any app, even many without a linking feature. I frequently use it to link research material to a blog post idea template on a topic …

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