Habits: Prioritize for Change
Whoa There, Tiger “But Gray, I thought you were going to practice the habit of posting pictures of everything you eat, in order to help follow along with the 4-Hour Body Slow-Carb diet?!? I signed up...
View ArticleWhat is the Motivation for Your Practice?
The Maze or the Cheese? I enjoyed relaxing yesterday morning with a TED Talk by Dan Ariely about the motivation for work. Much as Daniel Pink talked about in his book Drive, it turns out the old...
View Articleevaluate before you practice
Time Tips from XKCD: I’ve gotta be honest: I don’t know enough math to really understand this comic ( though I appreciate hearing about it from Karl). I believe the point, though, is that the first...
View ArticleLove. Life. Practice. Rinse, repeat as needed
Writing is. “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” — André Gide It started many months ago, in a laundromat in...
View ArticleDealing With Financial Stress By Learning to Love Money
Tough Love I hate money. Right about now, my financial coach (and maybe my therapist) are perhaps grimacing as I write that, with exhortations of “Don’t give the negative thoughts power!” and such...
View Articlehow to be a skilled creator
This is not original. Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go: this is replicative content. I read a nifty blog article about “How the Internet, Dopamine, and Your Brain are Working Together to...
View ArticleThe Battle of Wills
There’s a conflict that rages every morning the moment I first drift into waking consciousness. It first manifests by my social media (aka the Gravy Hose) craving, when I wonder What have I missed in...
View ArticlePriorities vs. Values in Your Every Day Practice
Get a Pen and Paper: Pop Quiz! Today’s bonus question: what did you do today that you also did yesterday? Can you think of anything? Let’s make it a little harder: did you do it the day before? Did you...
View ArticlePicking Up a Practice Again
Remember the Five-Minute Journal? I love the thing; I extolled its virtues, I recommended you buy the fancy one if you like that kind of thing, I even formatted one for my daughter to try and help her...
View ArticleHot Fudge for Habit Change
It’s not often that I get to come to this blog with a clear-cut “Hey, this worked exactly the way I expected!” anecdote. But this is one of those times. I have a weakness for hot fudge brownie sundaes....
View ArticleQuantify This
While reading the blog of the king of lifehacking, Tim Ferriss, I came across a…
View ArticleDiving Back Into Practice
I swear, I had the best of intentions. I was traveling, and I really wanted…
View ArticleDiving Back Into Practice
I swear, I had the best of intentions. I was traveling, and I really wanted…
View ArticleFive Unusual Ways to Hold Yourself Accountable for Your Practice
It’s a pretty simple and common problem: practice means “more than once”, and that implies…
View ArticleFighting Self-Sabotage with Time Travel
I’m going to share with you a nifty little trick you can use to travel…
View ArticleThe State of the Habit
I remember the good old days when I felt that my voice wasn’t needed. There…
View ArticleWhy I Think the Flips Bracelet is Brilliant
If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you know that I’m interested in personal development. How do we develop habits? How do we change them? I’m a freelancer, an entrepreneur, and a fanatical...
View ArticleStop Pretending You Should Be In Control of Your Life
Who the heck do you think you are? With as much time you spend on social media, that last impulse buy you made because that ad campaign caught you in a moment of weakness, and your sleep habits…you...
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