Category Archive: Productivity

Productivity

Sep
20

Avoiding Addictive Behaviors

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit
-David Ryan

This past Sunday, I posted 10 Ways to Find Time for Inspiration. This post expands on #3: Avoid addictive behaviors. Television, video games and drinking or other drug use are a few things that some of us can get carried away with. Hours or days can pass by in what seems to be a blink …

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Sep
18

Enjoy What You Do

With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it.
-Doc Childre
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Sunday, I posted 10 Ways to Find Time for Inspiration. This post expands on #8: Do What You Enjoy and Enjoy What You Do. When you enjoy what you are doing, staying focused and on-task is easy and you can experience inspiration without having to set aside time to do so. There are two distinct …

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Sep
17

Know When to Say “No”

Time is money.
-Benjamin Franklin

Yesterday, I posted 10 Ways to Find Time for Inspiration. This post expands on way #4: Know When to Say “No.” Though service to others is one of the most inspiring ways to spend your time, this does not mean being at others’ beckon call. If you are asked to do something that does not …

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Sep
16

10 Ways to Find Time for Inspiration

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
-Benjamin Disraeli

It seems that so many of the ideas in these daily reflections require us to set aside time. So many of the Daily Action sections start with the words “Take some time…”. Inspiration often requires us to set time aside for meditation, self-reflection, service to others, self care (sleep, healthy eating, exercise, etc.), prayer, creativity. …

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Sep
07

10 Ways to Be Creative Anytime, Anywhere

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
-Mary Lou Cook

Inspiration to be creative comes from within, even when it seems triggered from the outside. Here are 10 ideas on how to access creativity at any given moment.

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Aug
31

Quiet Moments for a Better Life

We occasionally have times when the television and radio are off and all is quiet, we find ourselves alone with our thoughts. This golden opportunity affords us the privilege of a bit of self-evaluation.
-Edward A. Beiersdorf

Quiet Moments: How? For most of us, quiet moments are rare. Life is short. There is so much to do, so much to see. How can we stop what we are doing for quiet reflection? Life hands us so many roles. With a full-time job, there’s barely enough time to run errands, prepare food, keep …

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