Measure, Analyze, and Apply What Matters

Live Each Day To Improve  

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Reminder

Busy me is not more valuable than resting me.

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Nothing that is worth doing is pleasurable for easy in the early stages of learning how to do it. But through regular practice, patient endurance, and proper mentoring, skills emerge and habits are formed that enable a person to be good at the activity in focus.

-J.P. Moreland

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So glad it is a new day to start fresh. With Christ all things are possible.

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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Anthony Trollope

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Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good.

Voltaire and Gretchen Rubin

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In most cases, extraordinary achievers became comfortable with being seen as "different" or "odd" long before they achieved the level of success they were after. It's a distinction that average people often fail to make. If one desires to live life on a different level, that destination will not be reached by traveling the same road everyone else has chosen.

Andy Andrews, "The Little Things"

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13 ideas

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My current fav app for tracking habits: Productive.

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Portion and inspiration from Charles Duhigg's book.

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Are you a runner? Then run habitually!

(pic from Runner's World May 2017)

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Great list. Pick 10 and go shopping.

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What are you focusing on?

What you focus on becomes larger and larger. Evaluate what takes up your time AND is not valuable!

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Small Win

Celebrating a small win: lowest weight on a Sunday since last October.

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Hard work beats talent until talent gets to work.

K. Bonura

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Change your to-do list wording!

I read today that if I change my verbs to nouns on my to-do list, it will energize me. Here is what I changed: Walk 10k steps: Daily 10k Walker Guitar: Singer Wake by 7: Early Riser Exercise:Athlete God time: Disciple No food after 7: Early Evening Diner Violin: Violinist Write: Writer Race: Runner

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This is my fav right now when the birds outside my own window are not chirping. I grew up in the North East and this is the closest audio I can find of the birds I heard walking down my driveway every morning.