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You Don’t Need to Whip Yourself to Create Results

December 29, 2009 in Creativity + Spirituality, Doubt and Fear, Ease vs Struggle, Effectiveness and Productivity | 2 comments

When you have made mistakes, or are in a desperate place, it’s easy to fall into the habit of criticizing yourself or beating yourself up.
There is often a voice that says something like, “I need to beat myself up to keep myself on track. If I don’t, I might become lazy or worse and then [...]

Noticing Your Commitments

October 16, 2008 in Effectiveness and Productivity | 1 comment

I’ve been all about the GTD thing lately. I got my lists, I’m getting things done! I’m biggifying! I’m awesome!
And then yesterday I realized, I’m completely exhausted.
Here’s what GTD is missing: sometimes you need to re-evaluate your commitments. Not just come up with the next thing and do it. Sometimes you’ve got to ask yourself [...]

Weaning Yourself from the Email Beast

September 4, 2007 in Ease vs Struggle, Effectiveness and Productivity | 3 comments

We’re all addicts.
Tim’s book The Four Hour Work Week has an entire section devoted to “Elimination”: getting rid of distractions that keep you from being effective. The biggest offenders are “work fidgets” – things we do that we don’t really need to do but they fill time. Like checking email 20 times a day.
Recognizing myself [...]

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