I mentioned after I completed the Daily Momentum Planner that I figured out how to write this post. Life intervened and I lost the muse. I’m currently in the process of reconstructing […]
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Don’t We Get to Choose What Words Mean?
Clay wrote a brilliant comment on my last post dissenting (somewhat) about the importance of words, roots, and their meaning. I started to write a comment in response but it became clear that […]
Replacing Passion With Vitality
Loren at Writing Power asked a question the other day that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently, since I’ve been thinking about metaphors and how language affects our thinking and behavior. […]
Build a Small Fire and Sit Close to It
This Friday’s meditation is an original in the Taoist spirit: Try to be everywhere, and you will find yourself nowhere. Try to be there for everyone, and you will be there for […]
Broken Theme and Something In-between
Many of you have probably noticed that my pages load really, really slowly. I’ve been doing some research on the guts of my system, and I’ve been able to determine why. Some […]
How Friends Help You Flourish
Friends and flourishing are like cookies and milk: the addition of the one makes the other so much better. But friends and flourishing are unlike cookies and milk in that you can’t […]
New Blog Domain, Same Old Blog
Okay, I’ve managed to move everything to the new domain name. Everything should now be under Productive Flourishing. It wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be. Except for the feeds. […]
The Daily Momentum Planner
The video above is a short walkthrough of the Daily Momentum Planner. The Daily Momentum Planner helps you plan to do the right projects and actions during the right part of the […]
Friday Meditation on Contentment
One of the things I love about approaching the weekend is that it is a time to relax, step back, and think about things. I read something that stood out to me […]
Changes planned for APPD
There are some major changes that are going to happen to this blog that I’d like to announce: This blog will be moving to a new domain name and renamed to “Productive […]
When to Swallow Your Daily Frog
If you know you have to swallow a frog, swallow it first thing in the morning. If there are two frogs, swallow the big one first. – Mark Twain You know how […]
The Triple Filter Test
There’s a common knowledge story kicked around about “The Triple Filter Test.” Sometimes it involves Socrates and other times it involves an Arab scholar, but the truth of the story is the […]
Fake Plastic Trees
I’ll give you fair warning on this post: if you don’t like “the making of” pieces or introspection, you likely won’t get much out of this post. I’m not sure how it’s […]
15 Ways to Be A Better Friend
This post is a continuation of the Practicing the Virtues Series. This week, we’ll talk being a better friend. I’ll give a brief recap of where we’re at. We become more virtuous through […]
Making a Habit of Changing Habits
Some people seem to be able to script themselves to change habits almost at whim. Where most of us falter and fight, these people make a quick decision either to radically change […]
What Preschool Taught Us About Time Management
I mentioned in How Heatmapping Your Productivity Can Make You More Productive that I thought most personal planners got time wrong and presented all blocks of times as being equal. Later that […]
Whose Blogspace Is This, Anyways?
I’m trying to save all of my metablogging posts ’til Friday, since if I wrote about all the stuff related to blogging that I’m thinking about, I’d probably write as much about […]
How Heat Mapping Your Day Can Make You More Productive
Learn how to heat map your productivity! Download the Productivity Heat Map in the Content Library of our free Mighty Networks community. Productive capacity is different from what you’re actually producing. The […]