Changing the way we live, working for the life we want, doing things different is hard. We have a lot to overcome if we want to make these changes, so it is important that we really want to make them. If we do decide to invest our time and energy into achieving a goal, there [...]
That brings us to the first item on our list, the need to set priorities. Time is limited, and not everything we want to do will fit neatly together. We need to know what is most important to us. What will make our lives better, and help us find happiness faster. We have to approach [...]
So with time being a resource, and having separated our wants and our goals, how do we find complementary trajectories? This is more art than science, but it does start with lists, at least the way I do it. The idea here is to determine what similarities there are between goals. Where does working on [...]
I didn’t wanna either, so I know how that feels. My friend talked me into it and I finally just took the book from her out of politeness as much as anything else. I sure don’t like being told anything, not what to do, how to do it or how I should be more this [...]
The bottom line is that time is a resource, and both of the remaining tricks to getting what we want, prioritizing and finding complementary trajectories, deal with time. There is another important similarity between these two. They both require us to move mindfully towards what we want. In the process we will turn those wants [...]
So if play and recreation are different, how do we tell them apart? The first clue is fun. If we are not enjoying what we are doing and the task does not advance our goals, then it is not play. Also play teaches us something. It gives us a chance to hone our skills. Over [...]
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