Category Archives: Life

How to Achieve Work-Life Balance in 5 Steps

If you don’t want to read the entire article because Time’s website is so overrun with ads, here’s the summary…

  1. Everything is not equally important. Do fewer things and do them well.
  2. Decide what your values are — and which ones take precedence.
  3. Do the things that get disproportionate results.
  4. Focus on the things only you can do.
  5. Do the important things which must be done now.
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This Is How You Speed Up Your Morning Routine (and Get More Sleep) #1aDay

Here’s the rundown, but read the whole thing…

  1. Figure Out When to Go to Bed Based on When You Have to Get Up
  2. Set Your Clothes Out
  3. Don’t Check Facebook
  4. Get a Quick Breakfast
  5. Eat Lunch at Work
  6. Shower the Night Before
  7. Brew Your Own Coffee

This Is How You Speed Up Your Morning Routine (and Get More Sleep)

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12 Rules for Life: A Solution to Suffering

Some hard truth here…

312 – Jordan B. Peterson: 12 Rules for Life: A Solution to Suffering – Altucher Confidential

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Stop Asking Your Kid About Their Day

It probably wouldn’t hurt for me to remember this. My goal is for them to want to talk to me when there really are important things weighing on their minds, and I know I did and still do tend to shut down just as described when treated the same way.

Stop Asking Your Kid About Their Day

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The Confidence Gap

Job #1. Try to instill confidence in my girls…

Success, it turns out, correlates just as closely with confidence as it does with competence.

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5% Less

Sometimes the solution isn’t to 10x everything, or maybe 5% less will make you 10% happier 🙂

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3 Things I Wish Parents – and Teens – Knew About Pot

You learn something new everyday. And naive little me thought marijuana was just marijuana.

3 Things I Wish Parents – and Teens – Knew About Pot

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The secret to learning how to do anything

Having a problem to solve is always a good way to really learn anything.

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The Best Time of Day to Do Just About Anything

Read the full article for details, but these are the suggestions…

  • 7 AM: Do Some Creative Thinking
  • 8 AM (or 1 PM): Book a Doctor’s Appointment
  • 9 AM: Go to the Post Office
  • 9 AM: Schedule a Job Interview
  • 9 AM: Search for an Apartment
  • 9:30 AM: Drink Your Coffee
  • 2 PM: Take a Nap
  • 2 PM: Send Email
  • 2 PM: Send Email
  • 6 PM: Exercise
  • 8 PM: Shop for Groceries
  • 10 PM: Go to Sleep
  • 10:30 PM: Start and End eBay Listings
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Safety is an Expensive Illusion

If you haven’t heard of Mr Money Mustache yet, let me introduce you…

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