Year: 2009
Feeling Down? Deal With It The Productive Way
We all have ups and downs in life, that’s part of being human and something we can’t change (and arguably wouldn’t even want to if we could). It can frankly suck when we feel down and unhappy, but without these dips we wouldn’t be able to appreciate the highs in life, or indeed have the [...]
Smart Quotes: Simple Living Special
On Monday I wrote a critique of the idea of simplifying your life as part of my ever controversial self-help myths series. I got a great response to that so decided to continue the theme throughout the week. On Wednesday, I described how, considering that simplicity goes against the way society is evolving, are we [...]
Are We Resisting The Inevitable?
The process of simplifying ones lifestyle is very much a response to the increasingly complex lives that people find themselves in nowadays. When you have hundreds of emails a day, dozens of social contacts to manage and a deluge of information and entertainment to process, it’s all too easy to lose sight of what’s really [...]
Self-Help Myths: The Power Of Less
It seems that simplifying your life is the big personal-growth trend right now, pushed by sites like Zen Habits. Personal productivity has had it’s day in the spotlight, now it’s the turn of simplifying, streamlining, identifying the essential, or whatever you want to call it. Goodbye David Allen and say hello Leo Babauta (or maybe [...]
How To Recharge Your Emotional Batteries
View original image It’s several years old now but do you remember The Matrix? In it humans were used literally as batteries to feed their machine masters. The analogy of humans as batteries actually isn’t far wrong. If you’ve ever worked flat out at work for a week and then felt run down and exhausted [...]