What is a keystone habit According to The Power of Habit author Charles Duhigg, when there is a habit change, it can set off a chain reaction that has the ability to change your self-image. It sounds simple, powerful, and appealing, so I wanted to try it out for my team. The quality problem At […]
I am recovering from a couple of weeks of COVID madness and trying to get back into my habits, including writing. To my surprise, I had no idea what to write about. I was effectively blocked. Thinking about being blocked reminded me of being blocked at work and what I did to get moving. In […]
For day two of our project, I only got in 30 minutes of work. Here is how that went. Since I am in management, I am constantly in project management and productivity software such as Jira and Todoist. The idea is to build a project management tool that feels as simple as todoist. Doing so […]
Yesterday, December 2, was my son‘s fifth birthday. My wife put together some lovely P.J. mask decorations. She bought cake, muffins and had some candles for my son to blow. It all felt very nice. My son was happy, dancing, and very engaged in the celebration. And this made me realize that we often forget […]
As I dictated this from the community park, I got reminded of a book I read on stress management. In this book, they talk about resiliency, and the author gives an example of their kid learning how to go up the stairs, and he describes the experience from his point of view as one of […]
I began swimming at the age of three, and ever since I started, it looked pretty bland. Every day, I would swim early in the morning, the afternoon, and even on weekends. I also started going to the gym on top of swimming, and I did this every day until I became an adult. Your […]
this is just today’s mini post based on the atomic habits book. I was recently reading atomic habits and it made me realize that I had wanted to start writing more often, specifically in this blog, but I always felt like I never had time to do it. In the book they suggest that you […]