by nick | Oct 2, 2020 | Define My Day, Goals, What Matters
The Importance of Focusing on Your One Thing I recently finished reading Gary Keller’s book, The One Thing. It’s one of those books I wish I would have read years ago. I would have saved me a lot of time, energy, and mistakes. The basic premise of The One...
by nick | Sep 11, 2020 | Define My Day, Goals, What Matters
What is Your Priority? At the heart of Define My Day are the priorities on each daily page. Each day, we list the actions that are most important to us. However, it can often become another variation of a to-do list, just a bit fancier. We certainly don’t want that....
by nick | Sep 9, 2020 | Define My Day, Goals, What Matters
Ever have a day when you’ve flown from task to task so fast that you can’t even be sure your feet hit the ground? You collapse at the end of the day, exhausted, only to do it again tomorrow. Some people even take pride in that pace of life. They see it as a virtue. We...
by nick | Sep 2, 2020 | Define My Day, Disciplines and Habits
Journaling is Hard Not physically hard. Just hard to do regularly. The review pages are probably the most difficult portion of Define My Day. They don’t seem hard until you feel obligated to fill them in. It’s hard for most people because by the end of the day, we’re...
by nick | Aug 26, 2020 | Define My Day, Disciplines and Habits, Goals, What Matters
Last week, I sent an email referencing how this research from Harvard found behaviors that most impact depression. In short, socializing is good in avoiding depression. TV and napping are highly associated with depression. For the most part, the responses I received...
by nick | Aug 13, 2020 | Disciplines and Habits
Work hard, play hard is not just a saying, it’s rooted it truth. During exercise, we need to take short breaks to recover. Over a weeklong span, we need to take rest days. The same thing happens when we work on our priorities that we identify in our Define My Day...