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Book Review: Eat That Frog!

Eating frogs? Ick! Well, if you eat a frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. And that applies to productivity as well. Brian Tracy’s book, Eat That Frog! puts some basic productivity principles he’s used for success into terms of how to find the frogs, and swallow them down.

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30 Day Challenge: A Website A Day

Sometimes I feel that when I declutter my information intake, I get stuck in a bubble of my own making. But in order to keep growing, I need additional inputs. So the 30 day challenge for this month is to search out a new website each day. This month’s challenge is to seek out a new website each day.

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30 Day Challenge: Gratitude

One of the things I hear over and over is that for a more satisfied life, one needs to make a gratitude list. I can always use more satisfaction in my life, and so for the new year I have decided to start with a gratitude.

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30 Day Challenge: All of the Above

It’s the last month of the year, and I was at a loss to choose a single habit. Many of the habits I have tried through my 30 day challenges over the past year needs some reinforcement, so I thought it would be good to spend a month making those habits stronger.

In some cases, I have let things fall by the wayside, and I am looking to restart them. In some cases, it is a matter of making sure that they are happening as often as I can manage, and to challenge myself to do better.

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30 Day Challenge: Exercise Every Day

The average American sits for 11 hours a day. That is outside of the time spent in bed sleeping. We are the fattest we have ever been, and our sedentary lifestyle is leading to disease. I’ve been conscious of these types of numbers for years now, but have been unwilling to do anything about them other than nod and promise myself I would do something in the future. But recently I’ve had some direct consequences. Enter my November 30 day challenge

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I sit way too much. It’s a function of my current job. But I remember the days in the classroom when I rarely sat, and how much better I felt physically. I’m starting to feel pain from a tight hip flexor, and exercise is the only way to ease that so I can sleep.

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30 Day Challenge Wrap Up: Spending Freeze

For my 30 Day Challenge this month, I did a spending freeze. As I talked about when I started it, I wanted to reduce the stuff I was bringing in to the house, and see if could manage to break my spending habit.

It wasn’t easy, but I got some great results. Read on for more details.

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30 Day Challenge: Spending Freeze

My 30 Day Challenge for the month of September is a spending freeze involving no spending outside of the necessities.

I will confess that I have a shopping habit. It’s not for clothes or decoration or even anything big, but I still shop for a lot of stuff. There was a time when Amazon was delivering multiple times a week.

As I looked around my house, there was too much stuff. Things that were duplicated, things we weren’t using, things that seemed like a good idea at the time, but never were implemented…I felt smothered.

Add to that that money is tight right now…and I wanted to see if I could do a spending freeze.

Read on to hear more about the rules and what I hope to gain.

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