Have to ever walked up to a Starbucks hoping to grab a quick cup of coffee, only to find a long line waiting for you? Pro tip: order from the mobile app. When you order from the mobile app, your order prints out from a little receipt printer behind the counter and someone will usually pull the order right off …
When I’m feeling particularly stressed out or immersed in a stressful period (read: post child birth) there’s nothing better than binging on some Netflix for an hour or two, or watching a movie to disconnect from reality for a little bit. Truly forgetting about all that is stressful in life, albeit for just a handful of minutes, feels great and …
Just before my wife and I welcomed our second child about six weeks ago, I was in a killer workout grove. I was getting up pre-dawn and getting a run or ride in every day. It seemed effortless. Caring for a newborn is no joke, and any free time you may have had pre-kid tends to disappear upon welcoming the …
I recently moved, and now have a dedicated office in my home where I work on a daily basis. My laptop sits on my desk and rarely moves from it. Everything I need to get my work done is there. As long as I’ve been working from home I’ve always had a dedicated space in the house that serves as …
A few months ago I started a trial subscription to Audible.com and downloaded Atomic Habits by James Clear. I had started reading a hard copy of this book some months before, but never really made much progress on it, as was the case with many of the books I had picked up over the past few years. I would get …
Just a quick reminder that maintaining a regular writing habit doesn’t mean that you have to write a 500 word essay every day. If you’re just getting started as a writer and writing every day is your goal, build that habit first. Write a brief, short, even micro post, every day. Hit publish, and move on to the next day. …
I few months back I started reading The ONE Thing. It’s a great book that, in a nutshell, aims to help you find what one thing you can do in a given context (at work, in your marriage, or even as big as in your life as a whole) to get better results. I’m still only about a third of …
I’m currently sitting in a solid streak of over 40 days of writing. Some days I write more, some less. Some days I’m happy with my writing, some I’m not. But I’m still writing, and I’ve gotten into a good routine of coming up with things to write. I would have never thought I’d be able to have something new …
I’ve spent the last month or so building some pretty great habits, one small step at a time. I’ve been feeling great about the progress I’ve been making, and loving the results. Then the unexpected happened. A few days ago my wife gave birth to our second daughter, five weeks early. Wowza. We were caught pretty off guard to say …
One of the best tactics I’ve employed in my quest to get up earlier and be more productive in the morning is a simple one: I place my phone about six feet away from the bed on the floor. In the morning when my alarm goes off, I’d better get up quickly to turn it off, as to not wake …