Today will be my last post for 2006. Aside from celebrating the holidays with family I’ll be without internet access for a little over a week, so that means no new postings. I should be able to resume soon after the start of January. Given that the year is about to come to a close […]
Archives for December 2006
Why New Years Resolutions Suck
The year is almost up and with it will come a whole new round of resolutions. Frantic attempts to change habits, make commitments and radically shift the direction of your life. A hopeful new outlook on the upcoming year. Unfortunately, most New Years Resolutions suck. The vast majority of New Years Resolutions fail to make […]
Creative Constraints
Is more choice always better? Our culture of consuming would seemingly make that to be the case. More choices, more options, all with greater convenience than ever before. Constraints are definitely a bad thing, right? I disagree with the philosophy that more choice is always better. I believe that sometimes imposing additional constraints on a […]
Daily To-Do Lists
I’ve picked up hundreds of different techniques for productivity but relatively few of them stick. Some of them may be good ideas but I just don’t see them fitting well into my life and others are downright lousy. Four months ago I dumped a huge proportion of the built in habits and productivity techniques I […]
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