Archive for June 2020
The 100 Habits Journal: Start With Awareness to Change Your Behavior
At a certain level, we’re nothing more than the collection of our habits.Whether we’re aware of them or not, the patterns of our repeated behavior are what shape our lives. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” And as James Clear shares in…
Continue Reading...No-Phone Zones: Stop Stepping in Distraction Quicksand and Free-up Time for What You Value
It’s no secret that our smartphones are like kryptonite for our presence.Heck, even having a phone in-sight—that’s not even yours!—leads to less presence. And if you’re reading this article, I probably don’t need to remind you how presence is one of the most essential ingredients to living the most beautiful, fulfilling, and impactful life possible.…
Continue Reading...Desirable Difficulty: Learning, Growth, and Change Require Effort
Most of us have a subtle (often unconscious) desire for life to be easy. Where every day is smooth sailing and everlasting happiness reigns. But when we look a little closer, the merits of this don’t carry much weight. Just about everything that’s deeply meaningful and fulfilling in life takes effort. Keeping your worldview the…
Continue Reading...Great Challenges Require Great Strength
The greater the challenges we face in life, the better-resourced we must be to conquer them. T. Harv Ecker shares some great wisdom about you and the size of your problems. It goes like this… Let’s say we can rank you and your problems on a scale from 1-10, with 10 being the biggest. If…
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