“Have a running list of 1-min tasks. Make that quick phone call to reserve a table, quickly cancel a subscription, unsubscribe from a few useless newsletters or book that appointment — all in the 5 min waiting for your friend.”
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“RescueTime assesses what you’re doing while you’re on your computer, helping you understand your daily habits. Nothing motivates you to stay off social media like knowing you’re going to receive an email at the end of the week telling you exactly how much time you wasted there.”
Community May Be the Most Important Success Metric
“Community is also an insurance policy against life’s cruelty; a kind of immunity against loss and disappointment and rage. My community will be here for my family if I cannot be. And if I die, my kids will be surrounded people who know and love them, quirks and warts and oddities and all.”
Love What You Do in Front of Your Kids
“The best way to help your children become the kind of person you want them to be is by surrounding them with the kinds of people you want them to be. This includes you.”
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“If you invest substantial time in hashtag research and identification for Facebook and Instagram, it’s safe to pull back some of your resources and devote them to other, more high-value tasks.”
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“A simple hack for making conversations around performance easier for everyone involved is to ask for ‘advice’ instead of ‘feedback.’”
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“Remove self-aggrandizing language like ‘unique’ or ‘special’ and let customers say it for you. Then quote the testimonial.”
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“Insider techniques on earning more money, mastering your inner psychology, and even finding profitable side hustle ideas to create additional streams of income.”
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“Coincidence is the word we use when we can’t see the levers and pulleys.” — Emma Bull
44 Movie Scenes That Influenced How I Live My Life
For the past nine years I’ve published a new blog post on my birthday reflecting on things I’ve learned about life or experiences that have shaped me.
For example, last year I shared 43 ways I’ve learned to make life easier.
This year, as I turn 44, I thought about the role of movies in my life and in particular how specific scenes influenced or reflected my philosophy about life, work, and art.