Do you spend December saying “I’m gonna start X in January”.
Do you make resolutions every January but forget what they were by February?
If you don’t reflect, how can you resolve?
Reflect and resolve to make 2015 your year.
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Are your habits a choice?
You drink coffee all day.
You check your email until 2am.
You eat candy every afternoon.
All of these are habits. Most reasonable people know that they are bad habits.
Once you know a habit exists, is it your responsibility to change it?
Changing Triggers After the Death of a Loved One
Cue. Routine. Reward.
It’s hard to know just how much someone becomes a part of your life until you have to change your cues and routines, and there isn’t a reward waiting for you.
Automate to Keep Your Willpower Bucket Full
You enter your kitchen after a long day and go straight to the refrigerator for the most convenient, fastest, processed thing you can get to put in your piehole. There is no way you have the energy to even THINK about what to eat.
You stand at the ice cream/cupcake/bakery for several minutes before deciding on the flavor because the choice overload is too much. Then you get the same kind you always do in defeat.
You’re asked to sign a contract that you are a little nervous about at 4:30pm on a Friday. You default to the status quo and just decide to decline the contract.
Five Ways You Can Take a Real Vacation
When was the last time you took vacation?
Did you check your inbox and your voice mail?
Did you take a work call on a cruise in the Mediterranean?
Did you feel overloaded when you left and more stressed when you came back?
Dreams of Pings and Notifications Nightmares
The average person checks their phone 150 times a day.
The definition of slave according to Merriam-Webster:
A person who is strongly influenced by and controlled by something.
OUCH.
Did you just get a gut ache reading that? Or did a notification come in and you got distracted?
Easy Holiday Packing for the On-The-Go Badass
Do you leave packing to the very last minute and end up staring at it while asking yourself, “what do I do now?”
No matter how often you travel, if you don’t have a strategy and the tools necessary to make packing a cinch, the experience can be an overwhelming and daunting task.
For this holiday season take all the yuck and “I don’t wanna!” out of loading your suitcase by following these three simple steps.
Party! Booze! Sugar! Business Travel Rocks!
At home do you….
Exercise, wind down at 8pm, make sure you eat at least one vegetable, stick to 1-2 cups of coffee, stop at one cookie, and stop checking email after 9?
When you travel do you…
Hit snooze, check email until 11pm, eat fast food, drink coffee all day long, take advantage of the corporate per diem at the bar, keep yourself awake by eating cookies all afternoon and forget what a vegetable is?
My Information Vacation for an Overflowing Brain
Do you feel like there’s so much information that you can’t possibly keep up?
Do you cringe every time your friend says ‘did you see that post/click on that link/read that book?
Maybe you need an Information Vacation.
