Posts filed under “Productivity”

Minimalize, Focus, Do Part III – Push Publish

Part III of the Minimalize, Focus, Do series. “There are three types of people in this world, those who finish what they start and those that don’t. People have spent entire careers wondering whether there was something special about ‘successful’ people – was there a common characteristic? A secret ingredient? Or just something they ate? [...]

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Minimalize, Focus, Do Part II- Mastering Focus

Part II of the Minimalize, Focus, Do series. “I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest“. ~ Dalai Lama Into the Eye of the Storm A storm is coming. Thick, dark clouds are gathering in the distance, rolling closer and closer towards you. The echo of a deep rumbling shakes the ground beneath [...]

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Minimalize, Focus, Do

How do you get things done? David Allen, amongst countless other life coaches, business men and women, time management ‘experts’ and so on have spent and earned millions trying to figure out this question. As people, we can do more than just spend our days hunting, eating and procreating. We’re lucky in that way because [...]

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‘No’ the difference…

A lot of people mix up travelling with ‘escaping’. They think that people who travel are trying to run away from bad things in their lives, or bad things that will/might happen to them like work, debt or demanding bosses. But the problem is, it’s not simply enough to ‘run away’. That’s what a vacation [...]

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Minimalism and work – a balancing act?

Would you rather eat a dead frog or lick a live one? Most of you will probably know the popular college drinking game called ‘Would you rather…?’ where one has to choose between two (usually horrifying) dilemmas. But apart from being a rather entertaining way to be grossed out by your friends, I’ve discovered it to [...]

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Plugging holes

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been trying hard to not log on my laptop everyday like I used to, and enjoy my time offline a little more. So the other day, when I sat down to relax but found a slew of comments from people informing me that I had a spam post [...]

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A complete guide to minimalist writing

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart ~ William Wordsworth This post is for all of my fellow writers out there – aspiring bloggers, authors, journalists, poets, playwrights. Even if you don’t call yourself any of these things, this post is still relevant to you because almost everybody writes something or should be [...]

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Time to prioritize

In the field of Economics, one of the first things that you learn is that resources are scarce. Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean there is little of it. There many things that there are almost unlimited quantities of. Almost. But the one thing there is never an unlimited quantity of is your time. Even with all [...]

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Minimalist Christmas Countdown Challenge

Christmas is approaching fast. November is coming to an end and people have already started shopping for presents, things to decorate their houses with and even for food. I get a lot of questions asking me my opinion about Christmas. Of course, I enjoy it as much as the next person, and I have some [...]

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minimalism 101

I’m very happy to announce that this week, I was featured in the UK The Times newspaper magazine. It’s the biggest thing I’ve ever done in my short lifetime, and it’s incredibly humbling to realize that there are people who will listen to someone like me has to say. So, with honor, I would like [...]

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