Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve been doing a morning routine for at least the past four years. I’ve written several blog articles over those years (For the last post, see Create the Day You Want: The Power of a Proactive Morning Routine) about my practice. My recent work with Claude Cowork has led to three changes: how I plan, …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI read another article recently telling me to stop buying things and start buying experiences. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen that advice. It’s been repeated in newspaper articles, magazine articles, and by bloggers and podcasters. It’s more than just advice at this point — it’s a cultural mantra. As a result …
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost of us go through the day forming intentions and making choices by default rather than through deliberate decision-making. Instead, our choices are made through habits, social contagion, and unexamined assumptions. In his recent book, Intentional, productivity expert Chris Bailey reveals that researchers have found that most of our actions run on neural autopilot. This …
Reading Time: 2 minutesTech nerds (like me) are notorious for constantly switching productivity apps. We invest a lot of time into setting up a new app, transferring data, and learning how to use it. A few months later, just when we’re getting comfortable with it, a new app comes along, and we start the process all over again. …
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the past 10 months, I have been writing, editing, and publishing two blog posts each week, each on very different topics. I’ve published an Original Mac Guy post on Tuesdays and a Retirement Reinvented post on Saturdays. Starting this week, I’m going to publish one standard post each Tuesday morning. I’ll be alternating between …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Lie We All Believe About Everyone Else All of us feel like we’re winging it through life. We feel we don’t have it together, but everyone else does. We look at other people, and especially people we look up to, like creators, productivity gurus, spiritual leaders, and believe they have it all together. We …
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently, I started using Claude Cowork. I use it for everything from doing research and helping edit blog posts to planning my week, reviewing my day, week, month, and quarter, and publishing my blog posts to WordPress. I’ve been using my journaling in the Day One app as a part of several Claude Cowork skills. …
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Love Isn’t Enough I felt helpless. About six months ago, my wife’s shoulder and arm started to hurt more and more. It got to the point where, for several months, she was in agony. Her arm and shoulder throbbed, and nothing — not hot pads, not cold pads, not medication — seemed to help. …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Chat Box Era Is Over Until two months ago, the only way we had to interact with AI was to have a conversation. We’d ask it questions, and it would give us answers. The focus was entirely on “prompt engineering,” which was the way you asked questions. We used AI primarily to look up …
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne Purpose, One Life — Who Invented That Rule? For years, I couldn’t figure out my life purpose. Everyone seemed to have one. I didn’t. That bothered me. When I was growing up, there was an assumption that everyone had a specific life purpose to discover and follow. According to this viewpoint, you were expected …