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When's Yours?

Not too long ago, we talked about Sleep Curfews. Five of them, to be precise. One for Caffeine. Another for Exercise. Plus Eating. Plus Screens...

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Save It for the Daytime

Continuing our 80/20 Look at Why We Sleep, Why We Don’t, and How to Optimize Our #1 Fundie, Today we’re going to chat about A Brief History of (Night) Light. Here’s the very quick take. For millions of years, the only light at night consisted of light from the stars and the moon. (...

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A Friendly Optimizing PSA

The other day Grandma and Grandpa visited to hang out with the E’s. We had a nice time. 😍 As we were walking to give them a tour of the ol’ studio, they told me about a public service announcement commercial produced by the Auto Club that they appreciated. Of course, we haven’t had a T...

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And the Spotlight of Your Attention

Have you ever heard about the Invisible Gorilla? Insert1: Spoiler alert coming for those who haven’t heard of it yet! Insert2: Watch this quick little video if you don’t know what I’m talking about and/or wou...

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One More Antidote to Soul Ulcer (aka Envy)

In our last couple +1s, we talked about the toxicity of envy (soul ulcers! 😲) and a potential antitode (celebratory mudita love! 😘). Today I want to revisit Paul Jarvis’s brain (and book!) for one more take on how to deal with envy. He has a great passage about t...

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Socrates Says (And Science Agrees)

The other day I was reading a great book called Company of One by Paul Jarvis. Sub-title: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business. Alexandra got it for me. (Thanks, Darling! 😘) Cal Newport says this abo...

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Remove the Distraction-Asteroids from Your Life

Wrapping up our fun tour through the brilliant life-design system called “Make Time” created by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, let’s talk about what they call “time craters.” “Time craters”? Yep. They tell us that when one of them was a kid, they went on a family vaca...

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Installing a Portable Chronometer on Your Wrist

Continuing our trip through Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky’s brilliant brains and equally brilliant book Make Time, Today we’re going to have fun with a little history lesson com...

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How Many Times Will You Today?

In our last few +1s, we’ve been talking about how to Make Time. We talked about Jake and JZ’s four steps to rocking it: Highlight (know the #1 thing you’ll do to make Today awesome) + Laser (eliminate distractions so you can focus on that thing like a las...

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It Can Be a Full-Time Job (Is It Yours?)

In our last couple +1s, we’ve been having fun hanging out with Jake and JZ and their wisdom on how to Make Time. Today we’re going to talk about what Destroys Ti...

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4 Steps: Highlight + Laser + Energize + Reflect

Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky is a great book. It falls into the “Alexandra Amazon-ed it and I immediately swiped it and read it” category along many other b...

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Control Stimuli (Or Else!)

In our last several +1s, we’ve been talking about The Power of Agency. In our next few +1s, we’re going to talk about the Top 3 ways

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Can You Guess It?

Way back in the early days of our +1 Optimizing together, we talked about the fact that our limbic systems evolved to deal with a single lion roaring at us at a time. As we said in that little chat on Lion...

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Resetting vs Optimizing

One of the key themes we come back to in our Optimizing work together is the idea that we want to make our prior best our new baseline. Another key theme we revisit again and again is to MAKE ...

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A: Not a Lot!

In our last +1, we talked about some fascinating research from Matthew Walker’s BRILLIANT (!) book Why We Sleep. Recall that reading via iPad at night suppressed melat...

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