Category: Goals and Habits
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New Year routines – revisiting the idea of managing energy, not time
“Managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance and personal renewal.” Loehr & Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement I had high aspirations for the Christmas and New Year break. In the lead up to the break, I had been busy doing some freelance contract work in finance (the career I am gradually…
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Do you deserve what you want?
“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.” Charlie Munger We always want what we don’t have. We dream, but we don’t always make a solid plan to move towards that dream. We aren’t…
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Easy or hard choices
“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” Jerzy Gregorek This quote made me pause and reflect on the choices I make in my life. Do I make enough hard choices? Should I be making more hard choices? Hard vs easy choices I understand hard choices as being those things which are challenging to get…
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Choose your inputs wisely
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn Be mindful of what is influencing your thinking during these challenging times. It’s easy to get sidetracked down a path or fear reading news or social media for eight hours a day, or maybe settling into binge-watching whole seasons…
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Time for something new
I started feeling a bit tired of the repetitive and ordinary. So I am trying to take a few more risks and shake things up a bit. I never used to be much of a risk taker until I decided to move overseas to London several years ago. That really changed things for me and…
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You are what you choose to become
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” Carl Jung It’s time to let go of what happened in the past. Maybe you accepted the wrong job and got stuck in an unfulfilling career. Perhaps you made terrible choices which cost you some relationships, time or money. It’s important…
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Continuous improvement
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection” Mark Twain I had a busy week last week. Things felt a bit hectic, so I decided to take a few days off posting to the blog. I needed to focus on what was important at the time. Now I look back and have a slight regret for…
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Traps of comparison
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” Jordan Peterson It’s a common trap to start comparing ourselves to others. We think this or that person is more successful and happier than us. Do we really know this for sure? We can really only see one aspect of a…
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Slipping into the negative
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will” Zig Ziglar Do you ever notice your thinking slipping too far into the negative? It’s easy during these troubling times. We have a global pandemic, an economic crisis, and divisions among society. Simply reading the news can spike up your cortisol levels and…
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A new challenge
“I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it.” Richard Branson When is the last time you started a new challenge? A different kind of goal. Something that pushed you out of…