Tag: write

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What’s Stopping You?

Post author By jrlsage
Post date July 13, 2016

What is it?

When you look at yourself in the mirror every morning, is there a nagging thought?

So, have you ever explored it?

If you haven’t, there is an opportunity each time you catch yourself going to that place.

Write it down.

Keep a notepad in your room and write that thought.

Don’t do anything else. Just write it down.

The thing about our mind is, that “thing” travels with us and inside of our mind all day. So, it hides among other thoughts, waiting for an opportune time to show up.

The idea can’t hide in the open. Therefore, when you write, you snatch it’s hiding spot.

Tags nagging, problems, starting small, thing, travel, write

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Build a Not-to-Do List

Post author By jrlsage
Post date June 12, 2016

Those Pesky Things, Write Them Down

A Not-to-Do list can save you overhead and time.

Now that you know that, let’s spend some time building one.

Exercise:

Write the following:
- What are three things that you, in any circumstance, do not do? Think zero tolerance.
- Why do you try not to do that thing?
- What happens after you do that thing, how do you feel when you lose?
If you typed it, print it out or write it again by hand.
Place it somewhere that is visible to you, and remind yourself of those things daily.
If something else strikes you, add it to the list.

Tags exercise, not-to-do, print, write

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Don’t Ask Me, Just Try It

Post author By jrlsage
Post date April 4, 2016

The access to diversity of thought now is now the greatest it’s ever been.

100 years ago you had access to only one way of thinking*. The internet has changed that.

“Diversity of thought” is the concept that there are people who know a lot, have some authority, and end up in a different intellectual place than others.

If you have access to this blog, chances are you have access to YouTube,Codecademy,Udemy, One Month, etc. All these places have courses (and in YouTube’s case, a lot more).

You can spend the day learning about Alan Watts, Seth Godin, and Martin Luther King Jr through a course, a lecture, or biography for free or slight cost.

These are free platforms where one can express her views, combine them, deconstruct them as often as you want, all for no cost.

When this is clear to those who want to pick up the tools, magic happens.

The best part? No Ph.D , magic wand, or gatekeeper required.

* Unless you traveled, which was a rarity before the airplane. Most people didn’t go further than 10 miles from home their entire life.

Tags alan watts, code, Create, diversity of thought, martin luther king, one month, seth godin, vimeo, wordpress, write, youtube

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This resonated with me. There are a few things I am neglecting to get after. I want to avoid failure. By not following up, I can avoid the active no and spare my ego by creating any story I want to dream up. “Did she just not get it” or “Maybe I am bothering him” or “They don’t want to work with me”. I take myself out of the game.

Ego is a fragile thing. It hurts to have it pushed around. Being uncomfortable hurts.Being around the unknown hurts. Yet, it is those things that enhance our view of the world and makes us better.

It is easy to write to just get up and go and things will be alright. The truth is it is a daily struggle. Each day is another opportunity to get in the ring and feel that punch of the unknown. I hate how I flinch(clock out mentally) when it gets uncomfortable.

Even coming to terms with how I flinch is uncomfortable. I realized that I am not a victim all the time, that I too influence things to shield my ego. I’ll say things that make people feel empathy. I’ll create a story that makes sense. Those mean people, that awful job, that unfair conversation. With a few of these I can generate sympathy. It becomes an out. I get to flinch. If I do it really well, I can take my internal guilt and flip it into external shame on people.

It is an ongoing process, but I concluded that those last paragraph is now part of my definition of failure. The easy way to avoid all that is to follow-up. It helps to mitigate that part of failure.

Follow up and the steps ahead become clearer.

Tags failure, followup, write

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10 Minutes A Day

A little housekeeping everyday can mean the difference between order and chaos.

A little ark in a journal can mean the difference of keeping progress and losing it.

A little planning can mean the difference between knowing the week and just going with the flow.

If you did just those three things for 10 minutes a year how much do you think you could get done.

Tags clean, plan, pro, productivity, write