The scariest moment is always just before you start. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft There comes a time in everyone’s life – several times, if you’re fortunate – where you’re presented a chance to do something special. Something that is firmly outside your comfort zone, yet directly on the path you’ve …
Success is about handling the setbacks, problems and mess, over and over. Sharon Pearson Pictured above: Pain. And, no, not just because I’m out of town and don’t have access to anything to make it less ugly. Because of the obvious part – the fact that you could look back to the first entry and …
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney Title’s a bit on the mark from last week’s post, but no, this has nothing to do with that. I’m back to a more inward focus, which seems well overdue given how immensely far behind I am in my self-imposed obligations. …
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald In the closing paragraph of my post on rationalization, I mentioned that I was coming up on a few months of extreme workload. Now that I’m here for the one month recap, I realize I never actually got into what that meant, so …
“This planet is information” the Mayor says. “All the time, never-ceasing. Information it wants to give you, information it wants to take from you to share with everyone else. And I think you can respond to that in two ways. You can control how much you give it, like you and I have done… Or …
There are known knowns… known unknowns… also unknown unknowns. Donald Rumsfeld That’s the most butchering of a quote I’ve ever done, but all the unnecessary bits between the main points were just that – unnecessary. No matter what you think of the guy, I’ve always thought this was both an obvious and fantastic point, and …
It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal. Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free It’s been one of those weeks. You know the kind. Sunday night you go to bed ready for the morning, head full of plans and the energy to hit …
You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly This past week – and possibly the next couple – have been the strangest in my writing “career.” Unlike past completed drafts, I’ve now spent a fair bit of time researching the refinement …
What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. Gretchen Rubin It’s been a month since I first discussed using Beeminder to apply a strong schedule of negative reinforcement. Those of you that missed that article can find it here: https://themeattics.com/2021/04/03/money-meet-mouth/. I talked a big game about it then …
All theories of akrasia converge where the rubber meets the road. Daniel Reeves, Beeminder I promise I didn’t start all this intending to go on a multi-week productivity rant. And yet here I am with the follow-up to last week’s follow-up. This will be the last in this chain for a while, I promise! Once …
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