by Olive | May 11, 2015 | Improve Your Effectiveness
We’ve all experienced to-do list overwhelm. I love making lists so making long to-do lists feels pretty natural. Listpads you see for sale at the stores are always so big! They must want you to finish everything, right? The problem with long to-do lists is that...
by Olive | May 5, 2015 | Improve Your Effectiveness
Are you someone who has a hard time making time for yourself? Yea, me too. In the The Fringe Hours, Jessica N. Turner discusses the importance of spending time on yourself and how to find pockets of time in your seemingly packed schedule. How this Book is Organized...
by Olive | Apr 14, 2015 | Improve Your Effectiveness
Another awesome book by Gretchen Rubin: Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives is a book about building and sticking to habits. Rubin writes from the perspective that all these habits ultimately inform our happiness if we select the right ones....
by Olive | Apr 9, 2015 | Improve Your Effectiveness
This is the story of how free-writing on a (nearly) daily basis changed my life. Remember when I told you about how The Happiness Project turned me around for the better? Writing morning pages is the other component of it. In early 2014, I was in a funk. I could only...
by Olive | Mar 31, 2015 | Improve Your Effectiveness
photo via Death to Stock Photography I’m a big fan of personal development. One of the key methods that helps me with improving myself is to build better habits. Habits will help you make healthy behaviors more automatic and cut down on having to make a decision...
by Olive | Dec 30, 2014 | Improve Your Effectiveness
If you haven’t already noticed, I’m a bit of a personal development junkie. I’m very interested in reading nonfiction books and resources that claim to improve my life somehow. Love Your Life by Domonique Bertolucci is a book that aims to uplift you...
