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Lately, I’ve been struggling with the idea of scarcity. It seems as if there’s never enough:
Seldom do we think in terms of having too much of anything. The result is that the unformed thought in our heads is Continue reading » The Enemy of Happiness Photo credit: the Italian voice
There aren’t enough hours in the day. Ever since I started my new job, I’ve felt that I’m not ready for whatever I’m scheduled to do right now. The problem is that while I’ve been used to working in the evening, I seldom was looking at a deadline that couldn’t be extended into the next morning. For example, if I was working on a post, I could just leave it over night and take another look at it in the morning. Now, that’s pretty much impossible. If I don’t get it done tonight, the best I can hope for is that I can find a few quiet minutes at lunch which will let me work on it. If that doesn’t work, I can’t really get back to it until Continue reading » Continuous Improvement?
In her posts, Ellie has been beating up on the devil of procrastination. As I’ve been reading what she’s been writing, I’ve been wrestling with the idea of procrastination myself. I’m not so sure procrastination is such a bad guy. Let me tell you why. First of all, let’s be clear. When we call a behavior “procrastination” we’ve already judged the behavior as less desirable than “gettin’ – R – done.” As a matter of fact, when I went looking for definitions, I found this at en.wiktionary.org: “The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.” [emphasis mine] The real question to me is Continue reading » Productive Procrastination
Believe it or not, February is National Time Management month. I really wonder who decides these things. First of all, February is National Black History month, so needless to say, Time Management Month doesn’t even make the radar. Everyone’s busy celebrating the historical contributions by black people, which is necessary because we didn’t devote the appropriate time to it when we took history the first time around. On top of that, they chose the shortest month in the year to celebrate time management. How ironic is that? Was February chosen so that we can Continue reading » Managing the “Stuff” of Life Is your crowd helping you be more resilient?It’s the lazy days of summer and feeling a bit lazy myself, it’s taken me a little while to figure out that I’m not really going anywhere. I’m busy enough, but I’m not making progress. In fact, I feel way too busy and way too unproductive. |
 Take a short break and consider the following: “People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.” Stephen R. Covey 
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