It can be SO hard to stay on top of the daily clutter in our lives. We spend all weekend getting the house “just so” only have it all fall apart by Tuesday.
There’s a simple tool that can help. It’s called the 20/20/20. Here, I’m going to teach you how it works AND I’m going to give you a worksheet that you can print out to create your own.
Here’s how it works. Each day, around the same time, you’re gonna set a timer for 20 minutes for three separate chunks of time: Reset, Prep and Rest.
If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ve heard me talk about “fun & easy.” Here’s the basic premise:
When we spend too much time doing things that: a) we hate doing, or b) we aren’t very good at, we expend a lot of energy that could be going to much better things. We are living in the Land of the Shoulds, the land where you are supposed to just suck it up, and the land where you bang your head against the wall a LOT of the time.
Last summer, I got radical with my packing. I was sick and tired of dragging half of my earthly belongings with me on every trip, AND (back when we were still flying), I was sick of paying extra money for luggage.
SO, I challenged myself to pack EVERYTHING that I needed into one large-ish backpack. I even did this for a TEN-day trip to Florida.
I picked one color palette. I’m already kind of a minimalist dresser, so this one wasn’t too hard. In the summer I wear mostly navy, white and gray, with the occasional pop of color. That way,
I’m jazzed about a super practical and actionable article in the New York Times this week. It has videos for how to do 3 full-body workouts - and each of them is only SIX minutes long.
Now THAT’s my kinda workout.
I know what you might be thinking:
Six minutes isn’t enough to see real change, or
Six minutes? I feel like I can’t even get six SECONDS to myself. (Oh, I FEEL you.)
But this article is the perfect example of the “minimum effective dose”. I love this phrase, which I first discovered in Dr. Christine Carter’s book, The Sweet Spot.
I am LOVING Atomic Habits by James Clear. Today, I am excited to share one big, fantastic nugget from the book - the idea of friction.
You remember friction from physics class, right?
If there's too much friction, that ball won't roll for very long. If there is little to none, that ball will keep rolling, and rolling, and rolling.
When it comes to having more ease and flow in our days, understanding the role of friction is KEY.
Here's how it works:
I do this work because I want to help people live simpler, more joyful lives.
So when I come across a product or company that is doing just that, I CANNOT wait to tell everyone about it.
(Ad nauseum. To the point where people are crossing the street when they see me around town.)
So today, my friends, I want to tell you about something that is sparking some major joy for me - my new toilet paper.
Yes, toilet paper. And it’s made by a company called Who Gives a Crap.
Hysterical, right?
Happy New Year! I LOVE this time of year because it feels like a fresh, clean slate. BUT, I often fall into the trap of trying to do TOO much. Can you relate?
Ryan Holiday’s new book, Stillness is the Key, has a whole chapter dedicated to “limiting our inputs”. Holiday says, “it’s very difficult to think or act clearly (to say nothing of being happy) when we are drowning in information.”
Right?!?!
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