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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
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
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
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
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
Day Crafting: The Productivity Workbook
Day Crafting is about developing the skills to use time meaningfully. It is the everyday art of making a good life. It is a set of...
Sep 9, 20223 min read
Day Crafting: The Body-clock Workbook
Day Crafting is about developing the skills to use time meaningfully. It is the everyday art of making a good life. It is a set of...
Sep 5, 20222 min read
Day Crafting: The Introductory Workbook
Front cover The Introductory Workbook has a charming, vintage feel, reminiscent of a craftwork manual from the 1970s or 80s, with just...
Nov 1, 20213 min read
The best way to design a new behaviour
I know a 'lean systems' expert. Her role in aerospace manufacturing is to observe factory processes and find ways to improve efficiency....
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Setting intentions – the Day Crafting tool you’ll use most
Have you heard of a stitching pony? Every craft has ubiquitous tools, the potter's wheel, the smith's anvil, the carver's chisel – and the leatherworker has the stitching pony which is used to grip the material. To the Day Crafter the tool used most often has to be intention setting.
Jan 15, 20212 min read
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