I recently enjoyed a couple of good episodes of Whims That Work. In this one, hosts Drew Coffman and Joe Buhlig touch on goals and whether or not they’re a good way to approach life. So much of this episode touched on things that I discuss a lot here: goals vs. habits, notebooks, commonplace books. As I listened during my run, so many related resources came to mind: * On habits and goals, no one I know of has written as consistently as James Clear. So much of what Drew mentions here about…
There are a lot of ways to approach the Bible. But the important part is to find one that works for you and run with it!
I wrote a giddy post-Super Bowl post [https://chrisbowler.com/journal/patriots] last year. This year, my favorite sportsball team was back in the big game, but this year they came up short. And although my sons are now, through osmosis I suppose, getting into football and spent last Sunday wailing at the TV, flipping tables, or throwing hats on the floor, I was calm about the entire affair. Well, I was suspenseful during the game. But once the outcome was certain, I was fine with how it ended.…
This is an area where I am lacking in familiarity with the subject. While I have read the headlines and watched in amazement as friends have taken the plunge to “investing” in a cryptocurrency, I have not taken the time to get a better grip on why some people are so bullish on this technology (I have several long articles on the subject in Instapaper, so bad on me). But any time I think about it, I can’t get past the environmental impact. > The total network of computers plugged into the bitcoi…
I love to see real world examples of how talented people structure their time.
Mitchell Harper reminds us that it’s important to schedule time to just think. Not to do, but simply to take time to ponder what we’re doing on this journey. > During my thinking time I focus on not “doing” anything. I don’t try to make progress on anything tangible. I don’t mark off goals on a ToDo list. I just sit in silence and think about things that are important or top of mind. I’m confident that the reason we all get our best ideas in the shower is because we’re not taking time…
I've shared my own system for remembering what I read over at The Sweet Setup. For the holiday season, I wrote a series of three posts that cover how you can put Day One to use as a digital commonplace book. * Part 1 [https://thesweetsetup.com/keeping-commonplace-book-part-1/] * Part 2 [https://thesweetsetup.com/how-to-use-day-one-as-a-commonplace-book-part-ii/] * Part 3 [https://thesweetsetup.com/how-to-use-day-one-as-a-commonplace-book-part-iii/] The purpose here is to put all your…
We can have better results in all that we do by creating better default behaviours (aka habits).