Today was my first real test of Living by a Schedule. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it went. I followed my morning routine to a tee and got more done in the morning than usual and still made it to work an hour earlier than normal. I was shocked at how much time [...]
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Day 1 of the Total Life Makeover
Today is the first day of my 12-month change plan which I have called The Total Life Makeover. My plan is to make a major change each month for the next twelve months. The change I plan to make this month is to Live by a Schedule.
It just so happens that today is a Sunday [...]
Dealing with Weekends
Today is Saturday. In light of my goal to Live by a Schedule, how will things work on Weekends? Saturdays and Sundays are basically different animals for me than weekdays and therefore can’t be treated exactly the same. You have to determine what works best for you. My goal is to try and keep as [...]
My Daily Schedule
As I mentioned in my last post I have chosen twelve changes to make in my life over the next twelve months, beginning November 1st.
What I want to do here is explain in some detail what the first change is all about, for my benefit and yours.
As I stated, it is Live by a Schedule. [...]
The Art of Learning from Our Mistakes
Making mistakes – yeah, I’ve got it down to an art form. Now if I can make learning from my mistakes an art form that would be something. No promises here but some simple observations about mistakes and how we can learn from them.
Last week I had made the plan to attend an important [...]
Habits – The Software of Your Mind
Let’s talk about habits. What are habits? I’ve been in the computer industry for nearly twenty years and I’ve written over a million lines of software code in that period of time. I understand how a computer works. I understand software. I know how a program works. A program is simply a set of instructions [...]