One of the aspects of deliberate living I have struggled with is getting healthier. For a long time I gave in to the negative habits I fall back on when stressed, namely stress eating and reading as a means of escape. The end result of this, after years of this behavior, is that I am packing extra poundage and I'm not as strong as I once was. Deliberate living doesn't mean I get the easy choices. I am choosing instead to act in a way that will move me towards health, and that means weight loss. I've learned some lessons along the way, especially from our late dog.
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In programming, we have a term: GIGO. It stands for Garbage In, Garbage Out. It is particularly apt in my professional field because too often clients expect us to take mangled data and buff it into usable format, without any guidance or structure. GIGO. GIGO isn't just in data, though. I find it really does play a lot into the rest of my life.
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This is about a realization of how things can creep into our lives completely unaware...and affect us deeply. We can consume, unthinkingly, and end up completely off-track and unable to easily get back on.
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There was a time when I would stumble out of bed with just barely enough time to throw on clothes and get to work. The end result what that I would get to work already stressed out, feeling frantic. I began to implement a morning routine after I read The Miracle Morning and began to see my life change. But the five areas laid out in the book were soon not enough. I decided to expand on it.
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The weekly review of Getting Things Done is a way to set your week on track. It focuses on the things you need to do to make the start of your work week smooth. And, like the rest of GTD, the focus is on your work week. But what about the rest of your life? Today we will look at 6 things to do on Sunday to make the rest of your life's week run smoothly.
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Have you ever said yes when you wanted to say no? We've all done it, and it can lead to some far-reaching consequences.Saying yes when you want to say no can lead us to build resentments as well as take us away from the things we really want to do.Between visiting my parents, re-assessing commitments at church and some tumult with one of my music teachers, I have had to say no quite a bit lately.
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Sometimes the best laid plans go awry.As some of you know, I was summoned for a visit by my mother during this past week. I went, fully intending to be able to get the blog article done during that time away.
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Sometimes I get complacent. I don't want to do the work to evaluate my habits, routines, processes, and tools simply because I've done the work before. As a result, I often am stuck with things that don't work, until some external force causes me to re-evaluate where I am.I realized this was an over-arching theme in my life recently after one of my tools did just that - forced me to re-evaluate. And it's caused some churn in my life, all of which has made things better.
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Today we're going to talk about complication, and how it often leads to us not reaching our aims. This could be in the systems we set up to reach our goals, or extra steps to get something done at home, or even just getting set in our ways. In any case, this unnecessary complication can stop us from reaching how we want to live our lives.
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Is it possible to have a tech-free day in the time of COVID? I don't think it's entirely possible - at least not on a recurring basis. But I think it's possible to have a low-tech day. Here's how I did it.
