We often talk about the things we want to do or how we want to be. It's more constructive to decide that you want to be the kind of personwho does [insert action]. For example, I want to be the kind of person who trains jiu jitsu every week. This is actionable in a way that I wanna do jiu jitsu just isn't. So the next time you find you...

Snared by Marketing So you want to do agile? What does that entail? Read The Agile Manifesto? The website that contains it has that weird background that makes the people in it look like Jesus giving a sermon in some watercolor painting. Sign up for agile coaching? Get ready to spend a whole lot of money on a guy to tell you all about ...

I’ve gone fully analog for personal to-dos. I use Basecamp for work stuff, but for private task management, I’m just using Ugmonk’s Analog cards. Tracking tasks on paper has been easier than I thought it would be. Copying things over to the next Today card when you don’t do something and seeing tasks sit on a Next or Someday card for a...

Email is the great equalizer of Internet communication. Anyone can send one to anyone else. Nobody owns email. Sure, there are different services and apps, but fundamentally, it's an open form of communication. If you have your own domain, you can pick it up and move it to another service provider at any time. You're not locked in. The...

Humans need surprisingly little to survive. We convince ourselves that we need more, more, more—but we don’t. Instead of wanting more, try wanting what you already have. If you want what you have, you can call yourself wealthy this very moment.

We have a tendency to go for the bigger, better option in everything. This leads to overspending, overeating, and overdoing it. Whenever you’re making a choice, try asking “Is this essential?” or “What would less look like?” You’ll often find that you can get by with far less than you first imagined and you’ll thank yourself later when...