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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...

Identity & Change

Aug 18, 20232 min read

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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...

Identity & Change

May 5, 20232 min read

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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...

Identity & Change

Mar 17, 20232 min read

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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....

Crafting Better Days

Feb 12, 20212 min read

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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.

Tools & Blueprints

Jan 15, 20212 min read