A life of well-being, meaning and purpose.
The purpose of being more productive isn’t to have more time to get many more things done. The true goal is to have more time for the important things: spending time with those you love, deepening relationships, dreaming and visualizing and planning for the life you want to create.
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Continue reading “Why Environment Trumps Willpower”Don’t waste your willpower on battles with the environment. Use your limited willpower to create better environments and better habits instead.
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Continue reading “Selffullness – The Golden Mean of Self-care”We have been conditioned to see selflessness as “good” and selfishness as “bad”. Consider the viewpoint that neither one is good or bad but are extremes of behavior, two sides of the same coin. Take excellent care of yourself, not as a selfish or a selfless act, but so that you can give your best in Service to the world.
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Continue reading “Make A Clean Sweep”Sometimes, we must get rid of something old in order to make space for a new thing. We may need to give up an old goal or dream in order to have the energy to pursue a new and better goal and dream. Sometimes, we need to make a clean sweep.
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Continue reading “Plug the Drains”Building reserves at each level in the hierarchy of needs allows you to focus on the next level. Plugging the drains on your resources in the areas of time, energy, money, security, love, and self-esteem is the first step of building reserves in these areas, a necessary action for climbing the pyramid of self-actualization.
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Continue reading “How To Be Organized Enough”Excelerated Organization™ – being well-enough organized – means you are free from clutter, everything has a permanent home, and you are able to put your hands on what you need when you need it.
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Continue reading “How To Automate Your Best Behaviors”Research shows that up to 45% of our actions are automatic, driven by habit. A good number of these are daily activities such as eating, drinking, driving, and so on. Without the power of habit, most of your mental capacity would be taken up by these mundane but necessary activities. Another reason why habits are important is that they can be used to automate your best behaviors.
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Continue reading “Why Sleep Matters”Research points to links between poor sleep and ill health. Adequate sleep is one of the fundamentals of the good health which is essential for us to flourish and to live a life of well-being, meaning, and purpose.
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Continue reading “Becoming Selfful”Selffulness is taking the responsibility to know one’s own needs and to get them met while acknowledging and being of service to others. Excelerated Selffulness™ requires that we take excellent care of ourselves, not for selfish reasons, but so that we can give our best in Service to the world as we seek to fulfill our larger purpose.
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Continue reading “Simplify To Remove Unnecessary Complexity”The aim of Excelerated Simplicity™ is to free ourselves from unnecessary complexity. The desired end result is a simpler, not simplistic, life. Not all complexity can be done away with, nor is that desirable. But unnecessary complexity can be simplified and our lives made simpler by having fewer trivial details to deal with.
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