Productivity
wishful thinking is no substitute for common sense
July 3rd I wrote the post “Sometimes recharging just isn’t enough“. When I first had car problems, friends and family suggested maybe the alternator on my car was failing and that I should have it looked at. Ignoring their advice, I chose to replace the battery because it is cheaper
With the new battery [...]
Do you stretch regularly?
At 3:00 am yesterday morning, I woke up with a pain in my left leg. I think my hamstrings were so tight they cramped. It took a few minutes of trying to walk around and stretch before I could get it to relax enough to let me go back to sleep. Six hours later it [...]
Sometimes recharging just isn’t enough
Saturday I went to a family gathering about 2 hours away from my home. Had a great day until the drive home. I was about 1/2 hour from home, signalled that I was changing lanes when my car experienced some electrical craziness. The radio and air conditioner went out and I lost [...]
Lesson from a porcupine, watch your reaction
Last week I was driving along one of the back roads near my home. When I rounded the corner, I found a porcupine crossing the road. He saw my car and started running. I had already moved left to avoid him, but I guess he thought I was moving too quickly for him [...]
Staying organized
It took me a numer of years to find a personal organization system that I could embrace. I started with the Franklin-Covey paper-based planning system but things always fell apart when I didn’t want to transfer uncompleted tasks to the next day. I didn’t make it more than six months before I abandoned [...]
