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Identify Your Time Sinks to Increase Productivity

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Originally written May 16, 2022

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There never seems to ever be enough time to accomplish everything we need to get done. Yet there are activities we do every day that continually waste our most precious resource because we have built them into our routine and they have become habit.

In order to unlock more time in our day, we have to take a hard look at what we are doing and how it plays into our daily balance of activities. For me, time sinks usually fall into to a few major categories. Work inefficiencies, pleasure binging, and boredom.

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Keep Your New Year’s Momentum Going

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Originally written January, 2021

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The concepts expressed in this article are derived from James Clear’s “Atomic Habits”. Check out his work here.

Welcome back for a new and exciting year, and for most people that simply means putting 2020 behind us and looking forward to what should be a brighter future in 2021. The problem is that although the calendar has turned, a lot of the issues we had still remain. Those difficulties are different for everyone but it’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t been affected in some ways by the pandemic.

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Getting Off the Fence: How to Actually Start Doing What You Have Wanted For So Long

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Originally written December 3, 2020.

I’ve stared for many months trying to determine what this blog was going to look like, what it should focus on and who my audience would be. After many months of staring at a blank page, it is time to get off the fence.

I still don’t have answers to any of these questions but after listening to one of Tim Ferriss’ podcast episodes with best-selling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin, something struck a chord with me. He said “Writer’s block is something that exists but isn’t real. What writer’s block really is, is a fear of bad writing.”

I think that is true of so many people wanting to do something but being afraid to fail. Godin makes a good point that not everything that comes out will be good. It’s impossible. The bad has to come out with the good. It all comes down to simply putting in the work. Just writing these words on a page, no matter how bad they are is light years ahead of a blank page.

This blog will evolve over time as I see what works and what doesn’t, who my audience is, and how I feel about my writing. I can’t possibly know what those things look like unless I take step one.

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