365 Learner

Don’t get into energy debt

Juice is not good for you, generally speaking. Mainstream juices contain waaayy too much sugar.

I had three half-juice-half-water glasses in the morning and I suspect that’s what messed up my energy. I felt tired and unfocused.

Stuck? Pessimistic? Imagine more ways forward

Donald Miller of StoryBrand said that when he gets stuck, he writes down 25 what if … statements. And then, suddenly, he begins to see ways forward.

Why I seek discomfort

Have you ever tried sleeping on hard ground at night, shivering with cold?

Well, it’s not terribly exciting.

Not eating anything with sugar in it for a few days? Turns out it’s not that difficult to resist after day two.

Do you need a complex solution?

An iPhone is a complex solution, Alexa is a complex solution, Google is a complex solution.

Often when we have a problem, the first instinct is to look for the quick solution. For the solution that is perfectly fit to our situation right now and…

Create your spacetime

We’re naturally good at thinking in space. After all, we move daily in our physical surroundings. We aren’t so good at time. And that costs us health, wealth, and opportunities. But we can become better.

How fast can you turn pain into learning?

We fail sometimes. The more we do, the more we fail. The question is: can we turn it into learning? If so, how effectively?

Can we reflect while the failure is fresh and learn a lesson?

How to charge your work like a bull

There is a type of work that accumulates and when we don’t deal with it, becomes stale. It’s hard to dive into because it’s been a long time since you last worked on it and you don’t feel that confident about it anymore. That’s when you need to summon your inner bull.

Restart rituals

Ever had a bad day?

Lately, I’ve been training to change my mood for the better on bad days.

When I’m not feeling great and notice it:

‘Man, today sucks’

Reality is chaotic, not normal

We view reality with the sense that some things are normal. They are not.

For a person from Burma, Prague would not be normal.

For a person from 150 years ago, the developed world would seem utterly crazy.