Discipline in the smallest acts has the largest consequences. Taking your vitamins each day can do more good in your life than a mighty effort to finish a work project. Going to bed on time will improve tomorrow more than spending hours cleaning the house. And spending a minute or two after a meal to […]
One of the biggest problems I see with todo apps is that they automatically carry tasks from day to day. If you don’t finish something on Tuesday, the app will move it to Wednesday. It might still show as due on Tuesday, therefore overdue. But it shows on Wednesdays list of tasks. This is bad. […]
Journaling has you verbalizing honestly gratitude hopes what has happened to you your weaknesses and strengths your relationships Done right, it can put you in touch with the divine.
I recently heard about Sorted³, a pretty nifty little iOS app for scheduling your day. Go check it out. What I Liked Browsing through their website, I found some things I really liked. First, the focus on scheduling. I’ve been calling it planning, or ordering. Sorted is a little more focused on choosing times to […]
A planning system should help you pay attention in the present. To be fully present means your attention is not in the past or the future. It’s in the now. But it also means that it’s focused on what you want to be focused on. And it’s really easy to get distracted by things that […]
A planning system should help you plan the future by the period. To be fully present means your attention is not in the past or the future. It’s in the now. But the future can distract you from the now. Unless you plan for it in a healthy way. Until you do that, the future […]
A planning system should help you process the past. To be fully present means your attention is not in the past or the future. It’s in the now. But the past can distract you from the now. Unless you process it in a healthy way. Until you do that, the past will rear it’s ugly […]
I recently shared my thoughts about a social media fast that I tried out. I cut out Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit for two weeks (and a few other sites that were distracting). Overall, my feeling at the end of the two weeks was that it didn’t radically change my life. Sure, I came away knowing […]
I have a lot of stupid tasks in my daily plan. Let me list them for you: Take vitamins Breakfast Shower Brush teeth Floss Drink Coffee Lunch Dinner Kids down To bed Those are all from my actual plan for an actual day: September 24th, 2018, to be specific. They don’t constitute the entire plan […]
Bugs in Software I’m using Cue every day to plan now. Which is great, until things go wrong. And they did, yesterday. I went from having a couple hundred plans in my archive to having none. Fortunately, the data hasn’t been lost, just hidden. And it will take a bit of work to get it […]