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Stupid Birds!

By Jonathan, on January 22nd, 2007%

The other day my daughter was looking up at the sky and said, “Stupid birds!” I asked what she meant, and she said that the birds were flying the wrong way.

I chuckled and mentioned that if she based her happiness on the direction that birds fly, she is in for many unhappy times.

How many times . . . → Read More: Stupid Birds!

Updated Shopping List

By Jonathan, on March 18th, 2006%

I’ve gotten some good feedback about my original post about Saving time at the supermarket with a shopping list. I spent some time revising the shopping list to help in a few ways:

1) Now I have the week’s menu on the list itself. Before I would write the menu on a sticky, but now . . . → Read More: Updated Shopping List

Saving time at the supermarket with a shopping list

By Jonathan, on March 6th, 2006%

I created a shopping list that saves me a tremendous amount of time when shopping. It’s organized by store, and by aisle in the store.

At home when I use something up, or will need something in a recipe, I write it down in the aisle where it will be found. Then, when at the . . . → Read More: Saving time at the supermarket with a shopping list

The Magic of “Every Day”

By Jonathan, on January 21st, 2006%

As I mentioned in a previous post (An Early Riser, me?), I do a set of activities every day. As I look at this paradigm of “Every Day”, at both the things I do every day, and the things I don’t, I realize that there is real magic in “Every Day.”

I’ve been getting up even . . . → Read More: The Magic of “Every Day”

Getting Un-Stuck

By Jonathan, on November 10th, 2005%

Seth Godin wrote in his blog about getting stuck at a “local max” because applying more energy after that point appears to actually decrease the effectiveness of what you’re doing, whether that’s your career, a project, or your relationship. What Seth points out is that people often mistake those lows as indicators of problems, and . . . → Read More: Getting Un-Stuck

An Early Riser, me?

By Jonathan, on November 6th, 2005%

I’d always been a night person before, usually going to bed at 10:00PM or later and preferring to sleep as late as possible (6:45AM or so), and much later on the weekends. What I realized, though, after some introspection was that the late evening wasn’t really the time when I was at my best. . . . → Read More: An Early Riser, me?