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Waves of Activity and Renewal

by Stephen Mills June 9, 2010
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The way we work and live is not conducive to maximal effectiveness. In our rush-around modern lives we try to live by one long pulse during the day and then rest at night. We are working too long and too continuously. We are burning up our mental and emotional reserves without giving them a chance to renew.

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Why I’m Not Busy Anymore

by Stephen Mills March 21, 2010
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I’m tired of being busy in a 24/7 connected world. I want to be valuable. I want to do what is important to me. I don’t want to be in a constant state of high-tension stress because I’m “busy” and because I have so much to do. I want to be calm and reflective and quietly go about getting important work done. I’ve decided being busy is no longer for me.

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The Power of Less – Focus

by Stephen Mills August 14, 2009

Focus on one goal to achieve it, focus on a single task at a time and you’ll be more productive, and focus on the present to reduce stress and anxiety.

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The Power of Less – Identify the Essential

by Stephen Mills July 28, 2009
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We rationalize everything we do as important and essential when in fact it is not. Below are some questions to ask to help identify what is essential to you. But keep in mind the standard must be very high. Don’t just tell yourself everything is of the same value or everything is necessary, because it is most certainly not. Take an axe to your non-essential activities and maximize your time by concentrating on the most important.

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The Power of Less – Setting Limits

by Stephen Mills July 25, 2009
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Modern society is consumption oriented. Everything seems to be focused towards getting more stuff. To get more stuff we spend our time getting more money. Time is finite and so is human ability so there is a limit to what we can do. If we maximize productivity and time management practice, we can get more tasks done. But by trying to maximize the number of tasks we do, we end up doing unimportant things. This dilutes our focus and takes energy away from the more important tasks. We also end up stressed-out, overworked, and unhealthy.

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Simple Genius

by Stephen Mills June 30, 2009
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The idea of an elegant solution, which means a simple but effective solution, is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Modern life is complicated, but mostly because we make it complicated. It doesn’t have to be that way. Real genius lies in coming up with an elegant solution to anything and everything.

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Identify the Essential and Eliminate the Rest

by Stephen Mills June 2, 2009
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This is the getting things done philosophy of Leo Babauta.  I have found it to be a fantastic way to move forward in a massive way.  This goes against my perfectionist, do-a-million-things-at-once, ADD nature and so it was very hard for me to accomplish.  But if you can pull it off, it’s life changing.  Recently, [...]

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Walk a Straight Line to High Achievement

by Stephen Mills March 4, 2009
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Do you ever notice how the most simple ideas are often the most profound?  In our tendency to make things complicated, we often completely miss the the obvious.  That is probably due to our tendency to believe it couldn’t be that simple and thus our minds simply ignore those obvious answers. Mark Joyner’s Simpleology – [...]

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Eliminate the Non-Essential From Your Life

by Stephen Mills February 11, 2009
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In How to Thrive by Accomplishing the Essential I discussed the philosophy of Leo Babauta that advocates a two-step processes to simplification.  Identify the Essential and Eliminate the Rest.  Here are some tips on how to eliminate the rest. If any particular task does not progress one of your essential goals it should be eliminated. [...]

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How to Thrive by Accomplishing the Essential

by Stephen Mills February 9, 2009
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You can accomplish your most essential goals and make amazing improvements in your life if you will suspend your disbelief for a short period of time.  When I first ran across the ideas that follow, I was extremely skeptical.  I thought it was impossible to implement this stuff.  It was pie in the sky philosophizing.  [...]

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