How a Personal Framework Helps You Get the Right Things Done
A personal framework is to your productivity what a skeleton is to your lungs. Your skeleton protects your lungs and creates space for them to expand… so you can breathe!
Preventing Burnout Means Planning Your Time Off
Does your life feel like an endless grey trudge through work chores and home chores? Part of what makes time off restorative, is that it is vivid: but memorable time off is not something that just happens.
Be Subversive and Create Things for Fun
One of the biggest obstacles to creating a meaningful life is the idea that something must be for sale to be important.
Find Your Linchpin Phrase
Thomas Keller, the famous chef, was asked for advice about what he did that had made him great. He said, "Keep your station clean." The interviewer prompted him to say more. Keller said that everything followed from that.
7 Ways to Identify Your Core Values
Core values are not abstractions. They are meant to be lived out. Here are seven ideas for figuring out the values that truly resonate with you.
Don’t Lose Your Identity in Others’ Algorithms
It is frighteningly easy -- and it is meant to be easy ("frictionless") to default our own thinking to the decision-making machines all around us. Tech writer Kevin Roose proposes we write down what we care about, and refer to it regularly, to hold on to our selves.
True Life Balance is Really About Boundaries
When it comes to living a balanced life, it’s not about being well-rounded; it’s about living into what makes you distinct.
Track What Energizes You and What Drains You
To get more clarity on what energizes you — and what doesn’t — track your moods and energy with this simple system.
Constants and Variables
Our constants are our routine tasks and commitments. Our variables are the unknowns that we know are out there, waiting to pounce.
Greet the Day: When Your Life Philosophy Emerges from Your Daily Actions
What if you don’t have a philosophy of life, or are not sure of your values? Start by looking at your actions.
Your Values Are as Hard to Remember as Your Groceries
You would think we would be better at remembering what we say is most important to us. Unfortunately remembering our values without a list is like trying to remember our groceries without a list.
How a Personal Framework Supports All Your Other Organizational Systems
A personal framework helps you to become the kind of person you want to become. It helps you use your energy and time in this life to live out what you believe is most important.
Where I’m Coming From
I love productivity and organizational systems. For me, when I started creating a personal framework, it became the missing piece, the system that organizes my organizing: a meta-system for crafting a well-lived life.
Why Create a Personal Framework?
Your personal framework helps you manage your time, resources, and surroundings because it gives you your “how,” and your "why."