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Six Types of Busy And How To Escape Them
Why busyness isn’t the same as a good life and the hidden costs of busy. Have you noticed, of the ways people answer the question, 'how...
Sep 255 min read
The 1% Principle: the 10 minute habit that reshapes the rest
You’re awake for roughly 960 minutes a day. What if just 1% of that – a simple 10 minute habit – could shift the tone of the other 99%?...
Aug 132 min read
The Paradox of Autonomy: When Freedom Becomes the Problem
You have the freedom. But what do you do with it? Explore why autonomy doesn’t always lead to flourishing – and how a rule-of-life, or a...
Jul 242 min read
Aligning with Circadian Hormones for Energy and Wellbeing
Introduction: The Body’s 24-Hour Hormone Clock Our bodies run on an internal 24-hour (ish) clock (the circadian rhythm) that orchestrates...
Apr 2413 min read
Day Crafting: Design Notes
A notebook to capture your Day Crafting practice, design thinking, intentions and journaling. The essential companion notebook for...
Mar 122 min read
Day Crafting: The Change Workbook
Enhance your daily life with practical tools to foster meaningful change. Day Crafting: The Change Workbook offers a step-by-step method...
Jan 162 min read
System Debt: One Hidden Cause of Stressful Workdays You Can Pay Off
When the systems you set up in a hurry start making your days harder, it might be time to pause, pay off some system debt, and craft a...
May 26, 20243 min read
10 Proactive Diary Tools to Escape Reactive Workdays
The Secret to Better Workdays? Get to your Diary First First Does your work system feel more like A or B? A B Pressing problems....
Mar 23, 20243 min read
Crafting Days with Play: 50 Experiments to Break Routine and Spark Fresh Thinking
Blueprints for Days with Play: A Day Crafter’s Guide to Creative Experimentation When I was a kid, growing up in the 70s and 80s, there...
Feb 21, 20243 min read
A to-do list of to-do lists
Lists are not the best solution at the productivity and information management system level. For that, I use a Kanban system like Trello....
Jan 22, 20242 min read
Understanding the Complexity of Human Behavior. The Elephant and Rider. Insights from Day Crafting
The Problem: Unravelling Human Behaviour How do we explain our strange behaviour – procrastination, resistance to change, difficulty...
Jan 21, 202415 min read
VIA Strengths for Deeper Connection in Your Day
Beyond the Superficial: Exploring Deeper Connection Through VIA Strengths This is an important question: do you want to improve your...
Oct 5, 20233 min read
Day Crafting: The Self-care Workbook
Crafting involves intentionally focusing on each step of the process, an attention to detail that leads to a well-formed product. Crafted...
Sep 20, 20233 min read
Time, Energy or Money: Choosing the Right Currency to Make Today Better
It might feel like you're making it up as you go along, but that's not really true. Beneath our actions and choices are rules we follow...
Aug 17, 20232 min read
Journalling Prompts to Refine and Design Purpose
Days with meaning: is it time to design and refine your purpose? Day Crafting examines the flow of energy from your maintenance (energy...
Jul 17, 20233 min read
Enjoying the Power of Celebrations, Rewards and Treats in Day Crafting
It's Friday, the weekend has arrived, or you've finally cleared your email inbox. Maybe you've achieved a milestone that required hard...
May 4, 20232 min read
Sleep, Eat, Move, Rest: Crafting Your Daily Blueprint
Under the heading of maintenance (how we look after ourselves in a day), our four most important actions are sleep, eat, move, rest....
Mar 30, 20233 min read
Breaking the Mold: How to Change Your Identity in a Single Day
When asked how he managed to stay so active and enthusiastic, despite his age, an 80-year-old man said, "Each day I wake up, and I don't...
Mar 17, 20232 min read
NEAT Tricks from Blue Zones for Longer, Healthier Days
Are your days NEAT enough? Why is it that citizens of certain places live significantly longer, healthier lives than the rest of us?...
Jan 31, 20233 min read
Small Shifts, Big Difference: Review Questions That Reframe the Day
Are you off course? This is a particularly relevant question if you're in new territory or creating something new, and more often than...
Jan 13, 20233 min read
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