Challenge: For 7 days, take the stairs whenever possible.
You Don’t Have To Fill Every Second
Do you ever find yourself mindlessly checking things like websites, book sales, social media, and website traffic? When I do this, it’s because I feel as if I need to fill every second with an activity. I will even cycle back to websites I just visited in order to be “doing something.”
Take a Moment
If you don’t grant yourself a spare moment to stop and consider your next move, you’re going to go through the motions and burn time.
So if you find yourself procrastinating and wasting time, give yourself a moment. Simply sit or stand in place while you think. Not every moment must be filled with an activity, and if you try to force that, you will participate in more meaningless activities.
Doing nothing is one step ahead of mindlessly wasting time because wasting time is hiding the fact that you’re doing nothing. If you don’t have anything to do, the solution is not to give in to the nearest distraction, it’s to figure out what to do!
The Tomorrow Delusion: A Procrastination Story
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
The nature of tomorrow creates a game out of life.
A while back, I wrote about tomorrow. It was not a love note. It was more of a grab-the-pitchfork-and-let’s-take-this-beast-down kind of note.
Tomorrow is the day of promises. It’s tied to hope in a delightful sick way. When you’re hopeful for something, you’re looking to the future to provide it. Tomorrow is exciting because, in theory, it could provide all that you hope for.
Let’s take that one step further. Tomorrow can provide more than just what you hope for. You can plan! I can plan to wash the dishes tomorrow and I won’t be stopped unless something crazy happens or I delay it. It’s something I can more or less count on happening if I intentionally do it.
The problem with this game is that many of us are playing without knowing all of the rules.Read More
Sports Videos: Never Give Up
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.” ~ Bruce Lee
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
If life is tough and you have problems, you are a human being. Nice job. If these struggles bring you down emotionally and sap your motivation, there’s a small, but powerful phrase that can pull you out of the doldrums.
Never give up.
In every person’s life, and in every path to success, there areRead More
Don’t Be Efficient, Be Effective
Efficiency is meaningless on its own. Literally meaningless.
What if I told you that I am the most efficient rice organizer you’ve ever seen? Oh yeah. Give me a full bag of rice, and I’ll line up the grains in four hundred symmetrical rows. I can organize the full bag like this in only three minutes because I know how to efficiently distribute the rice without wasting any time or movement.
But wait…
After such masterful efficiency, all I have is table covered in rice.