Posts Tagged ‘morning’

Start the Day Right: Go For a Walk

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

I live one and a half miles from my office. I usually ride my bicycle. But recently, due to a knee injury, I’ve been walking. I have found it’s a great way to start my day.

Walking is slow. It gives me time to observe my surroundings, think about the day ahead of me and enjoy the current moment, all at the same time. It’s hard to be stressed out while walking. At least for me, the act of walking is calming.

I realize that not everyone lives close enough to work to walk. But everyone can walk somewhere - even if it is just around the block. Next time you are stressed out and need a break, take a walk.

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Schedule a Time and Place to Get Things Done

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Over at Zen Habits there is a great post, 7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done. One of his 7 steps for overcoming procrastination is to schedule a time and place to get things done. This is great advice and something that I have put into place recently to get this blog going.

I’ve wanted to start this blog for months. But I never seemed to find the time. Recently, I started forcing myself to wake up an hour earlier so that I could spend an hour each morning working on this blog. This works for me for two reasons:

  1. I hate waking up early. By forcing myself to get up and work, I don’t procrastinate or get distracted. Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth the early morning wake-up call.
  2. First thing in the morning means I have no other distractions. I don’t read email, blogs, news, etc. The first thing I do is work on my own blog. All those other things have to wait until I’ve completed my blog task for the day.

When I was in high school, my journalism class had a motto: Make it happen! Sometimes, the easiest way to make something happen is simply to schedule it. What can you schedule?

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