• Weeknotes #25 - Swing Edition

  15 Jul 2018 9 Jul - 15 Jul 2018 I seem to have finally got over my lurgy at long last. Tuesday was a last minute date night - we’ve been making much of of an effort to have time together but we realised we’d...

• Weeknotes #24 - Paper edition

  08 Jul 2018 2 Jul - 8 Jul 2018 Weather update: still boiling, and I still haven’t shook the cough and snot! I’ve started experimenting with a paper journal. I’ve often found it uncomfortable journaling electronically on the computer. As I mentioned in my article...

• Breaking the chain

  04 Jul 2018 Today I hit a two-year daily meditation streak. It’s both an achievement but not-an-achievement. Meditation was a habit I wanted to cultivate, and this proves that I have fulfilled it. But now it’s just a habit. I don’t celebrate, nor should I,...

• Weeknotes #23 - Hot n Cold edition

  01 Jul 2018 25 Jun - 1 Jul 2018 Well, we’re halfway through the year already! I can’t believe it. I wrapped up this quarter, fulfilling one of my goals to publish an article twice a month for the last six months. I published Procrastinate...

• Procrastinate more effectively in OmniFocus 3

  29 Jun 2018 Digital task managers have it wrong There are three dates that we tend to think about when it comes to managing a task effectively. The obvious one is the deadline or due date. The date that thing has to be done by....

• Weeknotes #22 - Camping Edition

  24 Jun 2018 18 Jun - 24 Jun 2018 I realised I wasn’t yet ready to publish my next article but I had a planned deadline to have something published by mid-June. I couldn’t get back to sleep early Tuesday morning so I decided to...

• One Weird Trick

  19 Jun 2018 The internet is filled with blog posts and articles for that one weird or simple trick to make us more productive, more effective or whatever. Often it’s just a tip for some tool; nothing earth-shattering. Let’s be honest, when you click on...

• Weeknotes #21 - Training Edition

  17 Jun 2018 11 Jun - 17 Jun 2018 One of the perks of having your own business is taking off when you want to. Tuesday ended up being one of those. A longtime colleague and friend who’s now mostly retired had an afternoon gathering...

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