What Do You Really Want in Your Life?
And do you have the courage to cultivate it?
Every now and then, things creep into our schedules that don’t belong there. Like Michelangelo, we need to remove the bits that don’t look like our masterpiece.
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How to Combine Past and Present to Build a Better Future
A brief discussion of Harrison R. Merril’s “Christmas Eve on the Desert”
You can’t change what you’ve done in the past, but you can take action today to change how your past affects your future.
The Productive Power of Remaining Calm
Why getting worked up doesn’t help you get work done
It’s easy to get worked up over something, but it doesn’t help. We just might end up farther away from our goals than we started.
How to Budget with an Irregular Income
Once you learn the process, telling your money where to go becomes simple
Budgeting is a keystone skill for a healthy financial life. Here’s how to create a successful budget—even if you have an irregular income.
Stop Searching Endlessly for the Best Tools
These two features are the only ones you need
Stop wasting time searching for the “best” tools for your productivity toolbox. Instead, focus on these two features.
How to Resolve Yesterday’s Unfinished Tasks
Wrap Up the Past to Prepare for the Future
Is your task list getting overwhelmed with the tasks you didn’t finish yesterday? Here’s how to let go of the past so you can embrace the future.
How to Teach Your Kids to Budget with a Carnival
Help children learn a budget means freedom with a back-to-school tradition
We can turn ordinary events into life lessons for our kids. We just need to look at the world through their eyes.
What Should You Do About a Large Tax Refund?
It might not be ideal, but it’s not the end of the world
Mathematically, you shouldn’t get a large tax refund. But personal finance is more about behavior than math.
How to Shift the Default Action to Your Favor
We make decisions ahead of time and don’t always realize it
We often make decisions ahead of time without realizing it. When the decision point comes, we’ve already chosen the outcome that will happen without further action.
Do You Need to Improve Your Efficiency or Effectiveness?
Fix the wrong one and you could make things worse
Efficiency and Effectiveness are often used interchangeably, but they’re two distinct concepts that need handled differently.