Cierra M
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Cierra M
Urgent tasks are things that you feel like you need to react to: emails, phone calls, texts, news stories. Meanwhile, in the words of Brett McKay, “Important tasks are things that contribute to our long-term mission, values, and goals.”
James Clear • How to be More Productive and Eliminate Time Wasting Activities by Using the “Eisenhower Box”
Good thing to keep in mind for future Esienhower task lists
The Crisis of Self-Intimacy: Why We Don’t Know Ourselves Anymore
youtube.comA probable symptom to my problems of not knowing who I am and thinking I don’t know myself enough.
THIS is How You Get Everything You Want | The Power of Detachment ✨
youtu.beShowcases and talks about living now, as if your reality is already your desired one. (Double check if it’s this vid or the dream car one.)
On his regular rants about ‘the Facebook,’ an old business professor I had in Navarra used to say, in his velvet Spanish accent, “If there’s no price, you are the price.”
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
This is the cost of our lives when we give them, and our attention, away!!
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:
Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play
How to *actually* HEAL YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM (and change your life)
youtu.beManifesting Mindset and Regulating Nervous System
The best video I’ve watched thus far on regulating your nervous system.
There was a Jesuit preacher, Anthony de Mello, who said if you’re suffering but not willing to do anything about it, you need to suffer more. Suffer until you get sick of your suffering. Which sounds harsh, but it’s true. The transformative moments in my life only came when the pain of staying the same finally became greater than the pain of... See more
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
Thought provoking and Regulating Nervous System
What it takes for us to decide for ourselves, to change.
In other words, it’s really easy to confuse being consistent with being perfect. And that is a problem because there is no safety margin for errors, mistakes, and emergencies. (You know, the type of things that make you a normal human being.)
James Clear • Plan For Failure: Being Consistent Is Not the Same as Being Perfect
Too often, we use productivity, time management, and optimization as an excuse to avoid the really difficult question: “Do I actually need to be doing this?” It is much easier to remain busy and tell yourself that you just need to be a little more efficient or to “work a little later tonight” than to endure the pain of eliminating a task that you... See more