
Permission to stop, start, and evolve—no matter the timing

The world is changing at a blistering rate. Are you willing to change with the times or are you rigid and set in your ways? Think about how your mindset may be helping or hurting your efforts.
Frank Sonnenberg • Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
The days of velocity, volume, and rigid posting schedules are over. There’s little you can do to cut through these days, and while that might be scary, there’s a freedom to be embraced here.
BURN AFTER READING • Enter: The State of Social, Rewild the Web

The new year is as good a time as any to set up a new notebook, because it’s an unavoidable cultural milestone, both literally and metaphorically. It delineates the old from the new, what has been from what could be. Why not welcome this opportunity for a fresh start? It gives us an excuse to drop any useless baggage weighing us down, lightening ou
... See moreRyder Carroll • The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future

We have a natural hunger for these landmarks in time. Take the prevalence of New Year’s resolutions.4 The Wharton professor Katherine Milkman said she found it striking that “at the start of a new year, we feel like we have a clean slate. It’s the ‘fresh start effect’ … all of my past failures are from last year and I can think, ‘Those are not me.
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