Better, not More
When seeking out content on “personal productivity”, I have almost always been drawn to articles, videos and podcasts that focus on the varied themes of better, rather than more.
To paraphrase Joshua Becker, a well-read author on the subject of minimalism (a personal favourite):
“Recognizing that positive change is not a matter of choosing more, but choosing better is a powerful motivator. There is freedom to be found in it. It can bring about a freeing and inspiring shift in our thinking.”
Given that (based on personal experience) good content of this nature is harder to find, it will be my attempt, through these pages, to simplify that problem and make the consumption of such material easier and more useful.
And in keeping with this theme of #betternotmore, I intend to pick and post content that I believe truly deserves attention at a frequency that delivers utility and doesn’t overwhelm.
I’ll start with a thread from Twitter that resonated with me for so many reasons on the subject of a ‘life well lived’.
Apart from the fact that it’s an incredibly well-written piece of content that scores on clarity, I enjoyed it for the practical (and lived) advice it offers, and that it touches upon so many “personal productivity” topics that I enjoy — minimalism, fitness, travel, gratitude and writing — to name a few. Each tweet in the thread seems worthy of further study, exploration and discovery.
(Posts that show up here are part of a series that I’m doing with Curateus on the subject of personal productivity.
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