“What is perfectionism? Do you hold to lofty standards, demand perfection from yourself, and make your worth contingent on meeting these standards?” – Dr. Bill Knaus For three, almost for months, I have been stuck procrastinating on this very article. Afraid that I might not meet my own lofty standards for it, demanding perfection from […]
“An ancient proverb states: ‘It is not the size of the tree but the depth of its roots that make it strong.’ Procrastination usually has very deep roots. The problem of procrastination is one that often goes beyond self-discipline and whipping oneself from stasis to stress.” T. Quek Comparing this to the way of a […]
Sometimes I catch myself thinking silence is not important and actually a waste of my precious time. There are always chores to do, people to communicate with and ‘busi-ness’ to busy myself with. If life is so short, why bother sitting still once or twice a day? Why be alone if I can relate to […]
Dear ladies, Know that you are not alone when suddenly you want to rip someone’s head of, kick in a door, scream at your hubbie or are in puddles when you see a dead bird on the street, when all you wanna do is lie in bed, feel sorry for yourself or binge on all […]
Lately I have been struggling greatly with Procrastination and Perfectionism. I seem to just flatline when I’m thinking I either have to be perfect or just sit in my chair, stare, do nothing and feel bad about myself. Good or bad, black or white. Today I read something very fantastic in a daily email from […]
My dog Kiara is my mindfulness teacher. I’ll tell you why! In her cute little doggie universum, all that counts is the here and the now. She doesn’t even think about the past, although I adopted her from Canary Islands and she didn’t have a past of roses and doggiebones. The thing that makes her […]
Lately I have been slowly moving away from GTD towards something else, a more simplistic and ‘zen’-approach if you like. The GTD Weekly Review was taking me more and more time to perform. Why? Because I had just so much input for it. Especially my input for the Someday/Maybe-list got so overwhelming that I could […]
All year I have been carrying my ubiquitous capturing tool: my paper notepad everywhere, becoming a ‘Capture‘-ing blackbelt. But something kept nagging at me…. Eventually I noticed my Weekly Review consisted of a lot of Someday Maybe’s related to consumerist wants on the one hand and quotes for blogging on the other, which I was […]
Once in a while I encounter a story that is so encouraging and motivating I want to share it with everybody. This summer holiday I read 2001’s ‘It’s not about the bike’ by Lance Armstrong, 7-time Tour de France-winner and fulltime cancer fighter. It’s a real pageturner and it made me re-evaluate the topics of […]
Today I found a little gem in my inbox from a reader named Daniel who posed me some interesting questions via the comments on this blog. He says he’s ‘dating different GTD apps’ in search for the perfect one — which may not even exist. True that! Daniel loves the Evernote/Nozbe integration though, like I […]
