Life — Work | Mitch Schwartz

How to Get to Your Goals Today I wanted to talk about achieving our dream lives, but I'm not just here to philosophize (maybe we'll go back to that next week).  I'm going to show you how I started with my dream life and broke it down into high level focuses, and areas where I will exert my energy. This process should be done at least annually; quarterly high-level reviews are a great idea as well. First, though, I will philosophize a little bit, but only enough so you know why you should care about this, so... Why Does Life Need to be Broken into Areas? Because if you don't have a clear vision of where you spend your time and energy, you'll feel like you have to be doing way more; this is both stressful and unproductive. Won't this make my life rigid and restrictive? No, this is designed to give you high-level guidance and quick reference as to why you're doing what you do throughout your day.  This is actually a g...

Some basic automation in Integromat. Suggestion, when you save your tweet, you may want to make the title something like: Tweet by *Author Name* | *Date* If you look through the dynamic tweet data thats available, you should be able to find any of the tweet's metadata you'd like to use.

This one is slightly advanced: if you're working in a tool that doesn't offer templates *cough* Roam *cough* then text expansion can cover a lot that gap for you. Credit to Nat Eliason who gave me the idea (it's in his very solid  Roam course ). Nat suggested textexpander.com which seems solid. Since I'm not on iPhone, and it won't sync between windows and android, I couldn't get myself to spend on the $5 monthly, reasonable as it is. Disclaimer: I might just be being silly about the whole thing, but, if you're stuck on it like I am, you can use AutoHotKey which, admittedly I already had installed, so I was partway there. All I was missing what the Textexpander script linked below. If you're already using AHK, then the setup is simple, just follow the instructions linked below. If you're new, then setup is still pretty simple but be warned that there's a little learning curve because it's still a programming language, though...

Welcome, this post is m eant to help you streamline your setup for managing your tasks, projects, and life areas. To follow the video, here are some of the principles I build around: Invisible work is the enemy of our inner peace and flow. Work items we hold in our heads and don't write tend like to wait until we're engaged in some other activity before assaulting the backs of our brains. In extreme cases, this feels like a whirlwind in our minds and harms our ability to focus and stay present. Because of this, we need to commit to capturing every to-do . In order to keep that commitment, we need to be mindful of our internal resistance which tends to flare if we don't have: Easy and predetermined ways to capture these items a system to manage (or process) items easily after capturing them certainty that they will surface at the right time Because the goal is productivity but also flow, and because we aren't always at our best, we need to build systems t...

Inner Peace sounds great. We tend to be pretty aware of outer peace, which we know because most people are easily disturbed by noises, smells, or moving visuals in our environments. What's incredible is that most of us have a neurotic person chattering non-stop in our heads. Worse, we listen to all of its advice, without even wondering about its track record. If this was an external person, who was always getting us riled up, whispering to us in the middle of the night about everything worrisome, and so often shouting to us about anything but the task at hand, we would never accept their calls. Since it's always been this way though, it seems normal to us. Lately, I've been acutely aware of the voice in my head —the one so many of us have; it's been there as long as I can remember. When I was in my teens it felt more like 2 voices: my analytical and emotional selves. I experienced dialogues between different parts of my mind. There's an analogy tha...