https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMBsvvWxttE Insights: View Your Bank Account Daily Aka the 'track yourself' advice. Akin to making a daily journal of just a list of what you ate or what expenses you've incurred. What was the saying? "What gets measured, gets managed." Know that You Add Value in Some Way This is something I struggle with a …
Book Summary: “Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day” by Chris Fox
The secret to success is in the habits you possess. One vital thing that sets successful writers apart from the ones that never make it are their habits. Their ability to come back to their work day after day, regardless of zombie apocalypses and new episodes of Orange is the New Black. Chris Fox correctly identifies …
Mini Habits – Breaking it Down
Stephen Guise is the founder of Deep Existence, a blog about self-development, and the writer of Mini Habits, a book about his personal philosophy on how to get things done (with research that backs up some of his arguments). I found the book to be a pretty good starting point for personal development and so without …
An Argument for Focused Work
Cal Newport recently released his new book, "Deep Work", which posits that our ability to engage in concentrated efforts on meaningful work will set us apart in today's marketplace. I decided to read it based on all the glowing reviews on Amazon at the time of its release. Unfortunately, I was more than a little disappointed. I felt …