Why You Should Use a Paper Calendar
Tried-and-True Technology for Your Busy Life
Paper and ink are thousands of years old, but they’re still one of the best technologies to handle your busy life.
simplicity
You Have Enough to be Creative
Scarcity Sparks the Creativity to Succeed with What You Have
Don’t let the default solution be “more”. You’ll deny yourself the breakthroughs that come when you figure out how to do it with what you have.
You Need to Speed Things Up (and Slow Things Down)
How you measure time depends on where your focus is
How we measure time is not how we experience it. We need both.
Why You Don’t Need New Stuff to Be More Successful
The Gearing Up Fallacy
You probably have everything you need to be successful. You just need to stop looking for magic feathers.
Embrace the Freedom of Missing Out
Think of missing out as creating margin in your life
Don’t be so afraid of missing out on the best life has to offer that you crowd it out. Missing out makes room for the life you want to live.
Buy Back Some Margin
A Few Bucks a Month Can Go a Long Way
Are you running out of free time trying to save a dollar? Here are four ways you can reclaim some margin in your life for just a few bucks a month.
Keep It Simple
Start with the simplest thing that could possibly work. It probably will
Go with the simplest thing that could possibly work. Only add complexity when you know you need it.
Do More Up Front
Take the time to let results happen automatically
When you find yourself thinking “there has to be an easier way”, there probably is. You just need to pay the price to get there.
A Year without Credit Cards
Are they really an indispensable part of modern life?
Part of sharpening the saw is a willingness to experiment and tinker with how you do things, figuring out what works and what works better. We stopped using credit cards to see what happened.
Removing Browser Tab Clutter
Surfing the web is like any other task—clean up when you’re done
Having lots of open browser tabs makes it difficult to get anything done. Figure out why you have the page open, make sure you can get back to the information when you need it, and get productive online.