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The Five Phone Rules I Actually Keep
I’ve tried every app, every mode, every detox. What stuck were five plain rules, none of them clever, that mostly involve the phone being somewhere I’m not.
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One Honest Hour Beats a Wasted Day
An eight-hour day of half-attention produces less than sixty fully honest minutes. Here is how to find that hour and protect it.
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You Don’t Need a Gym. You Need a Reason to Move Before Breakfast.
Three gym memberships, maybe forty visits between them. What finally worked cost nothing and happened in my living room. The gym was never the obstacle. The gap between me and the gym was.
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Eating Like an Adult When You’re Too Busy to Think About Food
I’m not going to tell you what to eat. I’m going to tell you how I stopped letting a drive-through decide it for me at three in the afternoon.
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Making Friends After Forty Is a Skill, Not a Lost Cause
At twenty, friends happened to you. At forty-five, they have to be built on purpose, and almost nobody tells you how. Here’s what worked for a man who moved cities and started over.
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Diagnosed at Forty-Five: Grieving the Years and Then Getting On With It
When the pieces finally fit, the first feeling isn’t relief. It’s a strange grief for the person who spent decades thinking they were lazy. Both feelings are allowed. Only one of them is a place to live.
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Audit Your Calendar, Not Your Intentions
Ask anyone their priorities and they’ll tell you family, health, growth. Look at their last two weeks and you’ll see a different list. The calendar doesn’t lie, which is why we avoid it.
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Networking for People Who’d Rather Stay Home
I built a business on relationships and I hate networking events. Those two facts aren’t a contradiction. The events were never where the relationships came from.
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The Minimum Viable Day
Some days you can’t do the full plan. The question is what you do instead: nothing, or the tiny version that keeps you in the game. Have the tiny version ready.
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Pay Yourself First, Even When It’s Twenty Dollars
I waited until I could ‘afford’ to save and it took fifteen years. The month I started saving before I could afford it, something changed that had nothing to do with the amount.
The WisdomDeck Blog
Essays on living in agreement with how things actually work — discipline, focus, habits, money, time and the laws behind The Reality Code.