One small ritual that has had enormous benefit to me is weekly planning. Previously, I might glance ahead at my week, but I was more likely to plan day by day, or sporadically schedule in gym sessions. It wasn’t until I started weekly planning that I was able to pull out more patterns about how …
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A few days ago, I sat in a quiet cabin over a few of those blurry days between Christmas and New Year, and had a realization that changed how I approach the entire year ahead. Free time is pretty rare for me in this stage of life, I need to plan to ensure that I …
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Some of my most insightful realizations and best moments of growth have come from the simple act of taking time to reflect. Reflecting started out as something I would take time to do around my birthday or before the end of the year, but it’s really become something I do daily. I have several ways …
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For the past few months, I’ve been living through what I have been describing as a very full season. We recently moved with two young kids, spent weeks living out of boxes, and have been renovating our house on weekends. Between the chaos of daily life, the physical exhaustion of home improvement projects, and now …
A concept that I will always believe is that the more you know about yourself, the easier time you’ll have doing just about anything. One thing most people may not have articulated about themselves is their mental processing style — are you an external or an internal processor? I realized a little while ago that …