10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal
Benjamin Franklin made sure to end every day by asking “What good have I done today?” Maya Angelou only wrote in tiny hotel rooms. Jack Kerouac made sure to touch the ground nine times before writing. Sustained creativity doesn’t come from a flash of brilliance or a single afternoon of inspiration. Venture capitalist Brad Feld takes a week off every three months: The most impactful thing I’ve done is to take a week off the grid every quarter. Read the entire interview here. Former Obama campaign CTO Harper Reed the importance of the daily “retrospective”: [The presidential campaign] had a really good team dynamic that relied quite a bit on the “retrospective” meeting at the end of a project that allowed us to stop and say: “What was it like to launch? Read the entire interview here. Best-selling author Cheryl Strayed on the importance of writing daily: I often recommend writing as a tool for self-discovery because it’s helped me so much. Read the entire interview here. How about you?
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The Daily Routines of 7 Famous Entrepreneurs & How to Design Yours
Our daily routines can make a huge difference to how healthy, happy and productive we are. I’ve recently tried adjusting my own routine in the hopes of getting more done and wasting less time in-between tasks or activities. While it’s important to understand how your own brain works and what routine will suit your body best, I always find it interesting to see what works for others when planning something new for myself. Amazing routines of 7 successful entrepreneurs In the hopes of building the best routine I could, I did some research on the daily routines of some of the most successful people I know of. Jack Dorsey, CEO Square & Founder of Twitter In this video interview with Twitter and Square co-founder, Jack Dorsey, he explains his daily routine as he juggles a full-time role at both companies. To get everything done, Jack puts in an 8-hour day at each company, every day. Back then, when he wrote the post however, it meant that he’s doing 16-hour workdays, Monday-Friday. 1.) 2.) 3.)
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The 5 Daily Rituals That Will Make You Happy
You know what percentage of people are really happy? Not “oh, life is pretty good”, I mean people who are flourishing. They feel their lives are fulfilling, meaningful and brimming with potential. Via The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work: Only 17 percent of the adult population is said to be flourishing, fulfilling their potential for happiness, success, and productivity. Less than one in five. I’ve been accumulating the research on happiness for a while. Well, one expert finally put it together into a simple 5-part formula. Christine Carter is a sociologist at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center which studies the psychology and neuroscience of well-being. So what’s this formula to find your “sweet spot” of happiness — without completely overhauling your life? Take Recess + Switch Autopilot On + Unshackle Yourself + Cultivate Relationships + Tolerate Some Discomfort = The Sweet Spot Okay, but what do we actually need to do? Don’t worry; it’s pretty easy. Do less.
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*Update* I want to post an update for this post because It has become so popular! (I’m so happy my experience is helping others). I had reinfection that lasted several months (because it took me that long to match my symptoms with h. pylori again). I tried a few things like colloidal silver and a few foods. I had run out of the herb trio and a tried essential oils and olive leaf extract. So I am put together a Gutsy h. pylori Facebook group (join HERE) for all of you to ask questions about h. pylori and see what works! In my last post (healing update #5) I told you I have h. pylori. h. pylori is short for Helicobacter pylori Research If you don’t know anything about h. pylori I suggest you watch these video’s. h. pylori- another piece to the puzzle h. p- part 2 I find Dr. The confusion H. pylori is pretty common and a lot of people don’t even know they have it. Im not going to list all the symptoms here all because it can pretty much be anything. How to treat h.pylori? It is hard to get rid of
24 Daily Habits
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us” – John Dryden I have previously written about how the habit of exercising every day has helped me tremendously. Doing something every day is such a powerful way to form a habit that I thought I would make a list of 24 habits that are worth doing on a daily basis. The Morning 1. 2. 3. “With better awareness you can make better choices and when you make better choices, you will see better results.” 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The Day 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. The Evening 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Photo by lululemon athletica
12 Quiet Rituals of Enormously Successful Humans
May your actions speak louder than your words. May your life preach louder than your lips. May your success be your noise in the end. The result of enormous success is often pretty noisy – lots of people talking, writing and sharing stories about it. The actual process of achieving enormous success, on the other hand, is far more discreet. Marc and I are fortunate enough to know a number of enormously successful human beings. Building upon our recent video blog post on success, here are twelve things the most successful people we know do quietly and diligently: 1. Too many books and courses on personal success act like we’re robots, and completely overlook the enormous power of our emotions. But when we wake up and stress is already upon us – phones ringing, emails and texts dinging, fire alarms going off – you spend the whole day reacting, instead of being proactive. Try to have the first hour of your day vary as little as possible. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sure, getting into a routine is great. 6.
