You put it off and off and eventually the pile is too embarrassing to even look at. Some tasks (like the laundry example), do have to be completed eventually, but it comes with resentment and extra stress. Some tasks don't and are forever on the todo list.…
I ditched my second brain. It wasn't a match for my first brain, and I couldn't handle the differences.…
In your weakest hour, drunk and peckish, you need to be able to say "no" to the pizza menu on your fridge. You need to get to the core of why you are trying to make a change in your life.…
I'm more of a thinker than a doer. Until presented with a deadline, I will only work on optimizing my approach instead of trying to actually solve the problem. Recently I found myself falling into this trap again. I've been dabbling in a new programming language…
I was told that everything needed to get done before work. But I'm a programmer, and so it's considered normal to stay up extremely late working on projects. You can't stay up late and wake up early, but I definitely tried.…
If you feel like you've become better at a part of your life, you probably have! If you're total output has dropped but you're solving harder problems, you're improving and you should keep doing what you're doing.…
You may be thinking about signing up for a mindfulness service. I'm here to say you probably don't need one, and you may hurt yourself by getting one.…
Let's get this out of the way: it's unlikely that your typing speed is holding you back. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was never a great typist. My parents taught me to touch type pretty early on, and by 3rd grade I identified as a bit of a computer…