Category Archives: Productivity & Performance
Microdiscipline
It seems like we often say to ourselves that we’ll be disciplined “on the big things” and “this one little thing won’t hurt”. Well, I am starting to think that is a load of bull. We are almost never faced … Continue reading
Trying To Work With The TV On Is Like… Meditation
Many people I know have a magical gift — they are able to work productively… with a TV on! I, on the other hand, am not one of those people. Instead, I seem to be physically compelled to pay attention … Continue reading
Four Productivity Killers
When it comes down to it, “productivity” seems to be all about how we spend our time. We want to spend our time in a way that best brings about the things we care about. Here are four things that … Continue reading
Feeling Like You’re Not Doing Your Best (And A Radical Solution)
Do you ever feel like you’re not doing everything you could to make your life the best it could be? Do you get that lousy feeling that you should have read a book on investing your money instead of surfing … Continue reading
Conscious Decision Making
We’re constantly making decisions — decisions about what to eat, which side of the street to walk on, what relationships to be in, whether to stay at our job or quit. In short, as long as we’re behaving (which is … Continue reading
Is Low-Anxiety, High-Performance Possible?
In my view, anxiety has three purposes: 1) to make us pay attention to possible danger, 2) to motivate us to act so as to avoid that danger, and 3) to physically prepare our bodies to act. Anxiety is very … Continue reading
If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Poorly!
Following up on what I mentioned in my last post about my own tendency to focus on getting unimportant details “just right” while neglecting more important things, my friend Brad Blanton at Radical Honesty likes to say that “if it’s … Continue reading
We’re All “Addicts”
People who have been addicted to a substance know that it can be incredibly hard to break that addiction. Fundamentally, I think of addiction as a conflict between very strong feelings that shout “DO THIS!” and a “wiser” set of … Continue reading
Firework Feelings and Children At Play
For me, one of things that sometimes gets in the way of being happy is the everyday barrage of unpleasant thoughts, often about relatively minor things I have to do, things that might go wrong, things I’ve screwed up in … Continue reading
Seeking Good Things vs. Avoiding Bad Things
In the situations of your everyday life, what are you thinking about most of the time? Do you think more about the good things that could happen in a situation and how to obtain them, or are you thinking more … Continue reading
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