Posts Tagged: productivity

December 10, 2009

Five Life Lessons

Life lessons are learned by actually living life. Sure we can pick up books along the way that will help us along our way but the the only way to really learn anything is by actually doing it. Advice from our friends, loved ones, and leaders is really helpful too, but again, the only way we will really learn all the lessons this life has to teach us is by actually living life. Life lessons are learned by personal experience. Sometimes these lessons are learned the easy way, sometimes they are learned the hard way. Regardless of what you’ve been told or sold, you will have to jump headlong into life and living to really learn anything. Read more…

July 27, 2009

60,000

I just saw this on a sign: !WARNING! You think about 60,000 thoughts a day. It’s up to you to make sure that you don’t use up to 59,999 of them with negative, cynical thinking.

While the thoughts-per-day number (60,000?) seems awfully high, the more important point of the statement is well made. How many of our thoughts are spent on negative, cynical thinking everyday? How much honest productivity do we lose when our thoughts are nearly exhausted by non-productive thinking?

June 2, 2009

Don’t Let Fear Stop Your Progress

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Fear is the enemy of forward progress. Fear stops us in our tracks and causes to over-think otherwise simple situations. Fear forces us to keep looking behind us. Fear commands us to keep running from everything. Fear subtly whispers twisted imperatives into our ears and we unfortunately respond by trying to construct a fortress out of our own thin senses and feelings of self-security. Read more…