Overcoming Laziness

14 Ways to Maintain Your Creative Output (During a 50 Hour Work Week)

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a person on a beach getting some serious rest

Even though creative work is fun and rewarding, it’s still work that requires a significant amount of time, energy, and focus. Here I share 14 strategies I use to maintain my creative output while maintaining full-time employment.

Stop Whining and Start Grinding

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Dragon y Luna

Building your own skills is similar to building a character in an RPG (albeit far more complex and interesting). To improve your life, build your skills, and level up, you have to do some grinding. Read more…

What’s Stopping You From Creating Something Amazing?

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Fair warning: this post is full of rhetorical questions that will probably piss you off. Read more…

6 Reasons Why Behavior Change is Hard…And How to Make it Easier

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Flaming Trumpet

Why is behavior change so hard? In this post, I’ll attempt to answer this question and more. Read more…

One Trick for Increasing Your Happiness

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jukebox

One trick for increasing your happiness is this: Take action, even if you don’t see immediate results. Click here to read more

The Myth of the Perfect Circumstances

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Delicious grapes

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb Maybe you want to start a side business or even develop a full-on business plan. Maybe you’ve been thinking about starting a novel or a blog. Perhaps you want to go back to school. Or you talk a lot about learning to [...]

Removing Mental Barriers to Creating Amazing Things

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The Ascent

Our minds can do great things, but as a means of self/ego-protection, they may create internal barriers that are ultimately restrictive and destructive. To create amazing things, we have to learn to remove these barriers. Click here to read more…

Increase Focus with the Pomodoro Technique

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In the Pomodoro technique, 25 minutes = 1 tomato

Time-blocking is a great way to increase your focus, and the Pomodoro Technique is a well-defined method for working in time blocks. Click here to read more.

How To Gain Two Weeks of Free Time Every Year

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Matches

Imagine you’re granted a magical power. You suddenly receive two weeks yo didn’t have before. You have no duties, no stress, no deadlines. Want to learn more?

Are You Using Your Spare Time…Or Just Filling It?

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are you using your time or just filling it?

Do you ever wonder where your time goes? Do you find your leisure time slipping away? This article will help you begin to use your time wisely. Click here to learn more…