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My biggest fear in life is Alzheimer’s disease. It runs in my family. It took my Grandma away from us. My Dad is involved in an ongoing study and he worries about it (and I think he shows he has a gene that makes him… Continue Reading “Alzheimer’s”
In the business world, you’re measured by months and quarters. Quarterly sales numbers. Quarterly reviews. Quarterly celebrations and bonuses. Oh how we love quarters. You only need 2-cents for this bit of coolness. Q1, for me, wasn’t my best. I sucked at my New… Continue Reading “The Pomodoro Technique and My Personal Q2”
Our lives change when our habits change. It’s time to start good habits that will take the place of, and push out, the bad habits out of my life. At least, that’s what Best Lent Ever suggests, today. Each day, Best Lent Ever offers some guidance… Continue Reading “Good Habits. Bad Habits.”
About this time of year, there’s never a shortage of Blogs about Lent. Like this one, detailing nineteen things you can give up for Lent that “aren’t chocolate.” I’m going to review the list daily throughout Lent, and then a buncha other stuff. For… Continue Reading “A Too Long Lent Post”
I don’t know what’s more powerful. Fear? Or regret? Or fear of regret (if that’s a thing). It actually all kinda works together. For me, I regret some things I’ve done, but more and more, I’m regretting the things I haven’t done. I regret… Continue Reading “No Regrets”
If you only knew how much I love my digital watch, you’d laugh at me. It has five alarms, a stop watch, tells the time in 12 time zones, and has a countdown timer. I have all five alarms set for something. 9:55 p.m. –… Continue Reading “A Sleep Solution”
I’m calling the next 6-months the “Don Improvement Project.” I’m gonna try the “get better by 1% each day” approach, and today started with actually getting out of bed when I wake up, versus laying their and doing nothing. If I can’t go back to… Continue Reading “It’s Never a Bad Morning with Wisdom from Tim Ferriss”
I’m pretty certain earlier in the year I told myself, “Don …you’re going to do one thing every day to make yourself better.” And then . . . I didn’t. Today I got an email from Intelligent Change linking me to this article and… Continue Reading “Small Improvements”
Isn’t it funny how we all feel so much pressure to have an amazing Christmas wish-list, so we hurry to write everything down and then we totally forget some totally obvious things. Hilarious, right? Added five things to my list (and took off the TV… Continue Reading “Updates to my Christmas Wish List”