Tag: life
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New workout program
Over the weekend, I sat down and came up with a new training program. A reason for this is I recently picked up a road bike, which means a new hobby to add to the list of fun activities to do. It was timely to re-evaluate how I’m spending my time in the gym and…
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Six tips to help with worry
Worry has been around for a long time. In fact, Dale Carnegie wrote about it in 1948with his book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Even before Mr Carnegie’s book bust onto the scene, we have been worrying long before that. If you would prefer to listen to this article, you can listen on…
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Show your work
[20] From the moment they get up in the morning they adhere to their ideals, eating and bathing like a person of integrity, putting their principles into practice in every situation they face – the way a runner does when he applies the principles of running, or a singer those of musicianship [21] – that…
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Consistency is key
One of the simple things I’ve discovered to getting results is to just show up and be consistent. Consistency is key. Not that it’s easy. A lot of the time, it’s downright hard. I don’t want to ‘show up,’ so to speak, at the gym to do legs if I’m tired and sore and feel…
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Daily habits to cultivate
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book II, 11 Life is short. We are often reminded this, and at the same time, we can get so easily caught up in our own world and forget this lesson. We need to make a…
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Use your reminders app to form habits
One of the best things I use to form habits is the reminders app on my phone. It’s simple and easy to set up and use, plus it’s an interface that we are familiar with. We don’t need to download specialty apps, we can make do with what we have. If you would prefer to…
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Reflections on painting
I woke up sore. I turned the alarm off the night before, so rather than my usual 4:30am wakeup, it was 6:45am when I surfaced. It was not a smooth exit from bed, gone was the usual spring in my step. Instead, I slowly got up, waiting for my bones to wake up and move.…
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Take small first steps
When I first started writing as an adult, it was a chore. In my mind I wanted to be a writer. To put out long essays. Write thought provoking articles. Bring interesting ideas and reflections to a wider audience. I still do. Yet, when I sat down to actually write, to do the thing that…
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Choose what to fail at
Lately, I’ve been reflecting on an idea from Oliver Burkeman’s book, 4000 weeks, that we need to decide on the things that we are going to suck at, as we can’t be great at everything. There is only so much time that we have in this world, so if we want to be good at…
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Do the work
I recorded a podcast earlier this year. Halfway through, I knew that it wasn’t good yet I persisted and kept recording. My stubbornness won out on that battle, although I’m not sure what it actually accomplished in the end. The video still ended up in the bin and not published. I wasted an extra 10…