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Category: Daily Tidbits

  • Which rocks do you put in first?

    Picture this: You have a mix of big and small rocks you’re trying to put in a jar.  Which ones do you put in first? If you put the small rocks in first, the big ones won’t fit. If you put the big rocks in first, the small rocks fit neatly into the cracks. This…

  • What is one lesson that changed you for the better?

    I was talking to my Uncle and he was telling me about a workshop he participated in at his church. At one point during the workshop, he said “If I’ve been doing it wrong for 40 years, and you’ve been doing it right for 20 years, I want to learn from you”. There was a…

  • “I don’t know what to write”.

    “I don’t know what to write”. That’s what we say, we call it “writer’s block”. Seth Godin says that when we say we don’t know what to write what we really mean by that is that we don’t think we can write something good. So we settle for nothing. He advocates for a different approach.…

  • Don’t Take a Break.

    Don’t Take a Break.

    Don’t Take a Break. Have you ever gotten burnt out on something, taken a break, and the break ends up being a lot longer than you’d planned? Maybe several months instead of one week? If you want to keep the skill, don’t take a break. Downsize your goal. Make it small. James Clear recommends that…

  • Daily Tidbits

    I am going to write at least a paragraph every day like Seth Godin does on his blog. It’s a good way to create and ship creative work every day without a large time commitment. That will likely be the subject of my next tidbit. I won’t be caring as much about quality with these…