A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Left unchecked, decision fatigue can lead to decision avoidance. This is especially true for big life choices, which we tend to put off till the last minute.

The act of writing by hand draws our mind into the present moment on a neurological level unlike any other capturing mechanism.

Few things are more distracting than the cruel stories we tell ourselves.

When you’re really stuck or out of ideas, it usually means that you’ve lost perspective. You may no longer be able to see a way forward because you’re too close to the subject. To regain some perspective, it can help to temporarily disengage your mind by focusing on something else.

This state is known as decision fatigue. In other words, the more decisions you have to make, the harder it becomes to make them well.

The complex tactile movement of writing by hand stimulates our mind more effectively than typing. It activates multiple regions of the brain simultaneously, thereby imprinting what we learn on a deeper level. As a result, we retain information longer than we would by tapping it into an app.

Choices come in all flavors: the good, the bad, the big, the small, the happy, and the hard choices to name but a few. We can make these choices carelessly, or we can make them with intention.

Being both strategic and economical with your word choices forces you to engage your mind. By asking yourself what’s important and why, you go from passively listening to actively hearing what’s being said. It’s when we begin to hear that information can transform into understanding. A main focus of Bullet Journaling is to get better at hearing the