I waste time. It’s true. I waste time travelling an hour to get to a yoga studio, when there is a decent one down the road from me. I waste time googling recipes when I need to be working. I waste time in the evenings, binge watching Netflix series’ when there are books I want […]
How to tell if your Escapism habit become Avoidance
Ah escapism. Life wouldn’t be as awesome without it. The writer Shirly Jackson said “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality”. How correct she was. And whatever your preferred form of mental junk food – playing video games, reading novels, listening to music, watching movies, socializing with […]
How to Stay Motivated and Accomplish Anything
How would you spend the time if money wasn’t an issue? Would you be doing exactly what you’re doing, or in a totally different line of work? This is a tough question to answer, but an important one when it comes to understanding how to stay intrinsically motivated. We all start out by being motivated […]
How to Eat a Frog: 21 Techniques to Increase Productivity
Entrepreneur Brian Tracy’s book, Eat That Frog!, is a self-help classic. The book helps support improvements in personal effectiveness. (Personally, I prefer this book to David Allen’s Get Things Done, one of the other productivity masterclasses, as it’s a bit more digestable.) The secret to sustaining high productivity levels over long term is doing inner work; […]
How to Realize your Intuitive Abilities, as an Intuitive Learner
As the title should tell you, this post is about intuition in terms of learning styles, as distinct from other types of intuition. If you have already identified yourself as an intuitive learner, then perfect. If you have the other learning style (‘sensing’) and you are choosing to read this, then excellent: I like your style. […]
How to Have Confidence and Believe in Yourself, All the Way Down
Winston Churchill once said “courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.” It’s true, but courage has a twin sister: confidence. When it comes to confidence, most of us are sporadic, being more confident in some life areas than others. I’ve been no exception to that, […]