A few years ago, I read an article by author Ryan Holiday about how and why to keep “a commonplace book.” A commonplace book, if you’re unfamiliar, is a notebook, digital or otherwise, that you fill with information like ideas from books, notes from courses, thought-provoking quotes, and more. Holiday’s commonplace book, comprising thousands of […]
How to Build a Resonance Calendar in Notion (Incl. 3 Use Cases)
I follow a lot of smart people on Twitter. Most, if not all of them, tweet thoughts worth saving to reflect on and learn from later. I used to “Like” my favorites, hoping to return to them later. But without an organizational process in place, I rarely returned to them, and if I did, I […]
A Peek Inside My Evernote Commonplace Book
If you’re an avid reader, you’ve probably been there… You’re reading a book, making notes and highlighting passages that are meaningful to you, and you say to yourself, “There are so many great ideas in this book. I’ll write up my notes when I finish.” But for one reason or another—you never get round to […]
The Easy Thing Versus The Right Thing: Which Do You Choose?
One of the most common, yet highly unrecognized sticking points in behavior change is isolating incidents. In his book, The Miracle Morning, Hal Elrod writes, We mistakenly assume that each choice we make, and each individual action we make, is only affecting that particular moment, or circumstance. [1] But it isn’t. The workout we skip. The […]
How to Break a Bad Habit (and Replace It with a Better One)
During the writing process of his New York Times best-selling book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg (ironically) developed a habit of his own (and a bad one at that): going to the canteen every day and buying a chocolate chip cookie. Duhigg humorously recounts, in his book of the same name, how this bad […]
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