Topic
habits
- Biking Again
Last weekend I got the bike back up and running again. Itās been out of commission in the garage since the move a few months ago. Just had to clean it up a bit and put some air in the tires and itās good to go. Iāve gā¦
- Habits vs. Goals
As I've written before on this topic, separating goal-setting from habit-forming is important to do if you want to have success at either. Often people set goals without defining the daily behaviors that will enable tā¦
- Goal Progress: June
So that's a wrap on the month of June. This was my best month so far in terms of a consistent plan and feeling more productive with staying on target. Even with an out-of-town trip to visit the Cape and Jacksonville fā¦
- The Reading Diet
Books are one purchase I don't restrict my spending on. I'm not a big buyer of "stuff" in general, but I don't hesitate at all about my money going to reading. I do try to be circumspect to not overwhelm myself, and tā¦
- Run Shore Acres: Complete
Earlier this week I finished up my personal challenge to run all of the street segments in my neighborhood, Shore Acres. Here's the breakdown of stats to get there: Total distance: 125 miles ā by my rough calculationā¦
- Running Kit
This year's annual target for running (pinned at the 500 mile mark) has me trying to figure out my own personal flow ā what it takes to get a consistent, comfortable process for building the habit. The number one factā¦
- Goal Progress: May
For the second half of the month I got into a good rhythm with every-other-day running. I was even able to push almost 5 miles beyond the pace target to end the month. I started running with the kids again in the joggā¦
- Gates' Law: How Progress Compounds
āMost people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.ā My post from yesterday got me thinking about this piece I read recently on Farnam Street that dovetailsā¦
- Forming Habits
This year has been an experiment for me in how one goes about forming habits ā at least those of the healthy, positive variety. We're all familiar with falling into negative habits and how easy that can happen. Thereā¦
- Night Running
With all my commitments each day between work life, kids, and other things, it's hard to fit exercise into the schedule. Combine that with the struggles I have personally with rising before the kids to get running in,ā¦
- Goal Progress: April
I was able to stay on track this past month toward my 2019 goals. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| |ā¦
- Goal Progress: March
Month three is in the books. A seriously eventful month for us, so I'm surprised I was able to stay ahead of the curve. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|-------------ā¦
- Weekend Reading: Hurricanes, Long Games, and AirPods
ā Hurricane Season 2017: A Coordinated Reconnaissance Effort The NSF StEER program has been using Fulcrum Community for a couple of years now, ever since Hurricane Harvey landed on the Texas coast, followed by Irma anā¦
- Itās Not About the Number
As Iāve been pushing onward with daily meditation practice on Headspace, the āstreakā number has been climbing higher and higher. I have mixed feelings about this in terms of driving motivation. Is the desire to increā¦
- Goal Progress: February
We just crossed month number two of the year, so hereās another pulse check on how Iām tracking against some personal goals for 2019. Iām tracking on all fronts, slightly better positioned against the pace marks thanā¦
- Goal Progress: January
This is the first year I set some goals on a few things. Iāve never been strongly goal-oriented, so I thought Iād put some stuff down to hold myself accountable and see if it helps build some healthy habits into my roā¦
- Meditation Progress
Since late last year I've been keeping up with practicing every day. Mostly 10 minute sessions, but recently I've been upping that to 15. {% include image-partial.html file="headspace-50-days.jpg" description="50 daysā¦
- 2019
With 2018 in the rear view, itās time to set some goals for 2019. Here are some things I want to focus on, and some markers to aim at by year end. Health Run 500 miles ā At just under 10 per week on average, this feelā¦
- 2018 in Review
2018 was a good year, both personally and professionally. Rather than a long-winded post about everything that happened, hereās a brief summary of accomplishments, major events, family stuff, and travel. Personal Readā¦
- This is Water
This is a 2005 commencement address delivered by the late David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College. Worth going back and listening to from time to time.
- The Personal Security Footprint Review
Once a year around this time I like to do some āwinter cleaningā of my personal security footprint, mostly covering passwords and internet service accounts I have that may be out-of-date, unmaintained, or unneeded. 1Pā¦
- The Little Handbook for Getting Stuff Done
From Zen Habits comes a nice a summary of common hangups to productivity, and a list of quick reminders to help overcome. Two of them stand out as common for me. On starting: Procrastination is one of the most commonā¦
- A Couple Years with Todoist
For all of the todo list apps out there, Iāve only seriously tried a couple of them. After using OmniFocus since its first version, I switched over to Todoist a couple years ago. There are many I havenāt even tried, bā¦
- The High Road
A great reminder for those of us that can get spun up and anxious about the unimportant, from Shane Parrish: When people are rude, our subconscious interprets it as an assault on hierarchy instincts. Our evolutionaryā¦
- A Post Each Day
Iām now a couple of weeks into writing a blog post every day. I started doing it sort of on a whim because Iāve wanted to write more often, and a forcing function of āsomethingā every day at least drives me to do theā¦
- The Map Collection
Iāve been collecting paper maps for years. Itās one of the few collection habits Iāve allowed myself to keep (well, including books). Some time back I wanted to inventory all of them. So I built an app in Fulcrum to lā¦
- A Week with the iPad
For the last 7 days I've only been using the iPad. I've had a 12.9ā iPad Pro for about a year, but have only used it in āwork modeā occasionally so I don't have to lug the laptop home all the time. Most of what I do tā¦
- Public Speaking
Reading this post on the value of conference participation prompted some thoughts on the subject, from my perspective as someone who's done it a couple dozen times, with a wide range of results. A few years back, I haā¦
- Rediscovering GTD
For the last month or so, I've been readopting the GTD methodology for organizing my work, personal and business. I read David Allen's book back in 2007, and attempted to adopt the workflow. This was before having anyā¦