Jim Eagar Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen I first started writing this blog in February of 2022, I said I’d be writing about: (1) Apple products and news, (2) Productivity, and (3) Life. I thought it would mostly be about Apple products. Over the years, my focus has shifted from primarily Apple products to much more about healthy productivity and general …
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I Don’t Have Anything to Say”—Really? Have you ever stayed silent because you thought, ‘Who cares what I think?’” Many people hold back from sharing their thoughts with others because they think they have no unique or valuable ideas to share. We tend to take our thinking and creating for granted. Because we think this …
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen people ask me, ‘When should I retire?’ I usually pause. It’s a simple question—but rarely has a simple answer. When Should You Retire? Five Factors to Consider Most people get to choose when they will retire, but even those who can choose aren’t sure when or how to retire. During coaching and conversations with …
Reading Time: 4 minutesMarkdown is what happens when someone takes everything beautiful about writing on a Mac and says, “Let’s make this look like 1982 again.” And yet, despite the aesthetic throwback, I use it constantly. It’s not pretty, but it works—and sometimes, function wins over form. Most people who write online either love Markdown or hate it. …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Limits of “Time Management” Thinking For years, productivity has been obsessed with time management. In one sense, we must manage our time to ensure that we do the things that are most important to us. Doing anything worthwhile takes time, so some management is necessary. However, this mentality has often led us to see …
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy Retirement Didn’t Go as Expected When I retired over 10 years ago, I had no idea what retirement involved. I didn’t know it was a major life transition or what to expect. After the first-year “honeymoon phase,” I was surprised by the emotional shift that followed with the “loss and lost” phase—loss of identity, purpose, status, …
Reading Time: 3 minutesA Summer That Doesn’t Need to Sparkle Recently, I read an article on Sarah Winters’ blog titled, Maybe This Summer Isn’t Meant to be Magical. Winters discusses the cultural pressure she feels every year to have a “magical, extraordinary summer.” As an illustration of cultural pressure, she describes how many magazines feature articles such as …
Reading Time: 3 minutesA Different Kind of Productivity Book What if your weekly review could be faster, more visual, and more motivating? A simple table I discovered in Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s new book, Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World, changed the way I reflect each week—and I think it might help you too. Although …
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou’ll Never Finish It All—and That’s Okay Our culture prioritizes productivity and life hacks, allowing us to make every possible minute productive. We work to squeeze results out of every minute. However, as Oliver Burkeman points out in his book, 4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, we are, in fact, finite human beings. No matter …