What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. - Ellen Glasgow
You can still catch a digital pass for all the @macstockexpo talks on the website. And if you're not sure it's worth it, check out my roundup of everything that happened.
Macstock was especially awesome this year. Each time I return home I try to dedicate time to reflect on my time on the event. And I always come away with...
An excellent primer on git and using it for version control on your writing.
"How Writers Can Use GitHub to Store Their Work" by @ianpaul
There are many ways you can manage and store your writing projects. Some people prefer cloud storage services (like Dropbox) or online editors (like Google Docs), while others use desktop...
“In a world awash with targeted advertising, influencer marketing, and fake news, we are starved for sincerity.”
Trying to overcome the age of distraction, we fixate on productivity. Discipline holds us hostage to that fixation, and the only way out is for deliberate distraction to create space...
“I was lacking in enough time, energy, and attention to get the things done that I wanted or needed to do”
Something I've learned reporting on digital minimalists is that the definition of "minimal" differs greatly from person to person. As part of my effort to share more case studies about...
I have strong feelings about this one. https://twitter.com/bookwormfm/status/1167396046294659072
75: Getting Results the Agile Way by J.D. Meier – Bookworm
Lots of books teach systems to help you achieve more, but the problem is that they are usually very strict and rigid. Today's book promises to deliver a simple system...
“You want to manage up – but what you really mean is that you simply want to work well with your boss.” via @KnowYourTeamHQ
Here are 5 not-so-often-shared ways to manage up – whether you're an individual contibutor or executive – and have a better relationship with your boss.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. - Saul Bellow
“Living by design allows you to live your life. Living by default, on the other hand, will just lead you to live someone else’s life.”
Do you want to live your life the fullest? Then it’s important that you live by design, not by default. Living by design allows you to live your life. Living...
“We set rigid schedules, put our noses to the grindstone, even block access to temptations like social media, and still we struggle with our wandering minds.”
Trying to overcome the age of distraction, we fixate on productivity. Discipline holds us hostage to that fixation, and the only way out is for deliberate distraction to create space...
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. - Benjamin Franklin
Hat tip to the @bookwormfm podcast for bringing this to my immediate attention. Listened to @JoeBuhlig and @BobbleheadJoe discussing the book ‘Make Time’ by @jakek and @jazer this morning. That’s definitely next on my reading list
Found a ghost pipe (monotropa uniflora) while out hiking with the girls recently. #lymecantbeatme
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
It's been enlightening to keep track of my emotions with this app. It's a great one to try.
"Apps We Love: Moodnotes" via @thesweetsetup
Moodnotes is a simple iOS app that helps you track and understand your emotional state.
I gave up on a shutdown ritual. I found a better way to handle those tasks. Learn more on tomorrow's newsletter.
I've completely rebuilt my @OmniFocus system to be tagless and focused on one perspective.
It’s official. I’ve come back to OmniFocus in full force. But after making that decision, I realized that my life is very different from where I was when I w...
I remember seeing this about a year ago. It's really good. https://twitter.com/pstanoch/status/1165456068161495041
As promised, I started over with @OmniFocus and built an entirely new setup.
https://joebuhlig.com/inspiration-for-a-new-omnifocus-setup-and-workflow/
Inspiration For A New OmniFocus Setup And Workflow
It's official. I've come back to OmniFocus in full force. But after making that decision, I realized that my life is very different from where I was when I was using OmniFocus previously. And that means rethinking the whole structure. So I went on a search for inspiration and came up with a plethora of valuable resources.
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Anybody have ideas here?
If you create a perspective that shows all remaining tasks and tell it to group by Defer Date, it will summarize the headings beyond a couple days out. Ex. Today,...
