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the-official-dm
execution
3d
The Gap Between Planning and Doing, and How to Close It
The Gap Between Planning and Doing, and How to Close It
Planning feels productive. The plan gets detailed, the goals get articulated, the roadmap takes shape. And then the week starts, and the plan sits. The gap between planning and doing is one of the most
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the-official-dm
execution
10d
The Gap Between Planning and Doing, and How to Close It
The Gap Between Planning and Doing, and How to Close It
Planning feels productive. The plan gets detailed, the goals get articulated, the roadmap takes shape. And then the week starts, and the plan sits. The gap between planning and doing is one of the most
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the-official-dm
lifedesign
17d
Why Most Life Advice Doesn't Account for Your Actual Life
Why Most Life Advice Doesn't Account for Your Actual Life
The self-improvement genre is enormous. Thousands of frameworks, systems, and approaches, wake up at 5am, meditate daily, batch your email, say no to everything, say yes to everything, build systems, build
the-official-dm
morningroutine
24d
How to Build a Morning Routine That Serves Your Work
How to Build a Morning Routine That Serves Your Work
Most morning routine advice is aspirational in the wrong direction. It describes what highly productive people do in the morning, cold showers, journaling, meditation, exercise, reading, and implies that
the-official-dm
lifedesign
1M
What It Actually Means to Orchestrate Your Life
What It Actually Means to Orchestrate Your Life
Productivity is about output per unit of time. Optimization is about efficiency. Self-improvement is about the gap between who you are and who you think you should be. Orchestration is none of these.
the-official-dm
timemanagement
2M
The One Question That Changed How I Think About Time
The One Question That Changed How I Think About Time
Most time management advice is about optimization. Do more. Do it faster. Batch it, block it, automate it. The assumption underneath all of it is that you're already spending your time on the right things
the-official-dm
lifedesign
2M
The Cost of Living by Default
The Cost of Living by Default
Living by default doesn't feel like a failure mode from inside it. It feels like being reasonably busy. Having a generally acceptable life. Moving forward well enough that there's no obvious reason to
the-official-dm
rest
3M
What Productive Rest Actually Looks Like
What Productive Rest Actually Looks Like
Most creative workers know the feeling: you take time off and come back feeling the same way you left. The time was technically "free." Nothing demanded was done. But the rest didn't restore.
the-official-dm
personalcode
3M
How to Build a Personal Code You Actually Follow
How to Build a Personal Code You Actually Follow
Most people have values they believe in and choices they regret making despite them. The gap between the two is not a character problem. It's a design problem. Values that live as beliefs don't govern
the-official-dm
personalcode
3M
How to Build a Personal Code You Actually Follow
How to Build a Personal Code You Actually Follow
Most people have values they believe in and choices they regret making despite them. The gap between the two is not a character problem. It's a design problem. Values that live as beliefs don't govern
the-official-dm
lifedesign
3M
Nobody Designs Their Life. Most People Inherit It.
Nobody Designs Their Life. Most People Inherit It.
Here's the admission most self-improvement writers skip. They didn't design their life either. Not at first. They stumbled into something that worked, named it a framework after the fact, and wrote a book
ngwinndave
Humanitas
2y
Designing My Life Like A Work Of Art
Designing My Life Like A Work Of Art
As I thought about the above topic, I couldn't help but remember my growing up days and years, when I was living with my maternal relatives. One of the interesting things I still remember vividly is how
obooyblogging
mental
8y
Bored of being bored
Bored of being bored
I always thought that being bored was one of the worst things in the world. I always tried to fill up all the time I had by watching Netflix, listening to music and hanging out with friends. The goal was
torstenradtke
life
8y
"The authentic Swing" : Im eigenen Rhythmus leben
"The authentic Swing" : Im eigenen Rhythmus leben
Ich dachte vor längerer Zeit darüber nach, welche Art von Qualität vorhanden ist, wenn ich an ein „gutes“ Gespräch denke. Da gab es Worte wie Intuition, Präsenz, Achtsamkeit, Struktur, im Fluß sein. Ich

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