To cap 2022 off, like I did to cap 2021 off, I’m covering the five big lessons that I learned over the course of the year:
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Filtering by Tag: Self Improvement
The Joy of Atelic Activities
You might think to yourself “I could be spending this time productively!” But pushing past these inner calls for productivity and leaning into the initial discomfort of atelic activities is likely to be rewarding. When you’re consumed by telic activities, by always pursuing outcomes, you’re missing out on being, on appreciating being alive for the fleeting moments that you have.
Read MoreMore Guests on Fridays
Going forward, we are still going to have short, five-minute-ish episodes on Friday that feature me solo, but we will increasingly be interspersing in inspiring guests. And I won’t be making an effort to have these Friday guest episodes be anywhere near five minutes long — to start, I’m thinking of having them typically be 20 to 30 minutes long, but we’ll see how it goes with the guests and what the reception is like from you.
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Tools for Sharpening Your Attention
This article is a combination of a two-part series from January 2021. You can listen to the first part here, and the second part here.
In any given workday, our goal is typically to get as much done as possible. Often, however, we spend the day feeling frazzled -- hopping reactively between multiple tasks, emails, texts, catch-ups with colleagues, and our physiological needs. By the end of the day, we feel worn out and we often didn’t accomplish all that we’d hoped to at the start of the day, even if we put in heroically long hours because we’re so committed to getting everything done.
Lying in bed after one of these long days, I often find myself thinking that it could have gone very differently…
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