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  • Implement Your Intentions.

    James Clear recommends what he calls “implementation intentions”, a specific kind of plan to meet our goals. I would like to take a look at them, how and why to predict your own failure and why it matters. The structure of implementation intentions is: “I will [action] on [day] at [time] in/at [place]”. For example,…

  • Habits.

    “Atomic Habits” by James Clear is one of my all time favorite books that changed how I approach habits and high performance. I found it easier to start applying and see results than the Power of Habit. Three points in his book that stick out to me are: #1. Building habits is more about consistency…

  • Chronotypes.

    I have been doing some research into sleep chronotypes and how they affect our quality and quantity of sleep. I’d like to take a look at the types of chronotypes, how they change as we grow older and why we can create better lives if we adjust our schedules to them. There are three kinds…

  • When You Don’t Feel Like it

    We all have times where we don’t feel like doing what we know we need to do. I didn’t get enough sleep last night, so today was one of those days. I’ll often try to push through lack of sleep and get distracted and not get much done. Today was a mix, it wasn’t my…

  • Focus.

    “What are you going to stop doing so you can truly commit to one thing?” – Connor Grooms This is one small snippet from Connor Grooms’ How To Learn Anything In 30 Days  TEDx talk. To learn something in an impressively short amount of time, there are three steps: 1. Research. Study people who got…

  • Rest.

    Today, I’m going to take a look at rest. Why we need it, what it looks like to go without it and what real rest looks like. First, why do we need rest? This goes back to creation. God created six days and rested on the seventh (Gen. 2:2) — not because He needed to,…

  • Sleep. Do I really need it?

    Today, I was watching Matthew Walker’s talk on “Why Sleep Matters” at Google. There were a number of interesting pieces of research he cited. The three most interesting points he made were how sleep affects our health, our learning and how we can get better sleep. It doesn’t take a lifetime of sleep deprivation to…

  • Why? Finding Purpose in Communication

    Have you ever written a speech, a blog post or an essay and wondered: “Why does this matter?” “How can I show them that it does?”. We’ll be breaking this down in 5 steps using a blog post as an example. #1. Ask yourself, “What do you want to be true of your audience after…

  • WordPress Sending You to a Login Page on Another Site?

    I was trying to setup this blog but I kept being sent to the login on another website that I setup. The link was hard-coded into my WordPress setup, I didn’t know what to do with that. If you are having the same problem and are running a Linux server, run: # Install WordPress CLI…

  • A Sweeter Song

    We are easily lulled into sin by our flesh and the world. They sing a sweet song that brings us to the rocks to die. They sell slavery under the guise of “Independence”. But, there is a sweeter song. A greater Savior, a greater Purpose, a greater Meaning, a greater joy beyond measure. A beauty…