Most life purpose books are about why life purpose is important. They leave out the most important part: how to actually find and/or create life purpose. The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose mostly addresses the why … [Read more...]
Post-Workism & Total Work: 5 Future Scenarios when the Religion of Work Loses Followers
"Post-work is about the future, but it is also bursting with the past’s lost possibilities." — Andy Beckett¹ I always find it mind-opening and expanding to think about the future—I've covered the future of busyness, but what about something as … [Read more...]
Total Work: When Humans are Transformed into Workers and Nothing Else (Were we Born only to Work?)
"Life is just one damn thing after another." — Anonymous In my research on workism and post-workism, I discovered another concept: "total work." Total work seems to be the epitome of workism. This is also timely given all the news coverage of … [Read more...]
The Busy Spectrum (High Busyness): What You Need to Know about Workism & Hustle Porn
This is one of three posts on the busy spectrum. You can see the companion posts here: The Busy Spectrum (Low Busyness): What You Need to Know about Bullshit Jobs & Performative Busyness Total Work: When Humans are Transformed into … [Read more...]
The Busy Spectrum (Low Busyness): What You Need to Know about Bullshit Jobs & Performative Busyness
This is one of three posts on the busy spectrum. You can see the companion posts here: The Busy Spectrum (High Busyness): What You Need to Know about Workism & Hustle Porn Total Work: When Humans are Transformed into Workers and Nothing … [Read more...]
Create Your Life Purpose with the Why Discovery Process from “Find Your Why” by Simon Sinek (Book Summary)
This is a ton of information out there about why purpose is important. Even on this site, I've written many posts about purpose—it's one of my top five post topics. But, I've quickly learned that there is shockingly little out there about how to … [Read more...]
Timeboxing: The #1 Productivity Hack for Actually Doing Your To-Do List (+ 10 Timeboxing Tips)
I'm fascinated by time—the variety of ways that humans have found to spend 24 hours of time, that the current lifespan in the US is 1% of recorded history, and that time is a finite resource. So naturally, I highly value time and like to find ways to … [Read more...]
3 Simple Things We Can All Learn from the Quaker Testimony of Simplicity
Note: This post isn't intended to address any religious views. I believe we can all learn something new about our common humanity by expanding our minds and opening them to other cultures and spiritualities. This is nothing new. Over a century … [Read more...]
The Definition & Next Evolution of “Simple Living, High Thinking”
I've seen "simple living, high thinking" a few times lately, so I took that as a sign to do some digging about it. It's a bonus that I also find the phrase intriguing and subject to personal interpretation. I figured there would be some original … [Read more...]
Things vs Experiments? Turns out “Experience” & “Experiment” are the Same Word
The debate between things vs experiences becomes a lot more interesting when its things vs experiments. My mind was blown—for many reasons—while listening to this podcast: Dr. Andrew Weil — Optimal Health, Plant Medicine, and More (#350). Dr. … [Read more...]
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