This is optimal living daily episode, eighteen, eighty five focus on creation versus consumption tax, the code on your days, challenges by J Harrington of life and whim doggone remarried just a moloch. Reading your blogs every single day of the year, and we have a bunch of shows, Cover different topics, just search for optimal living daily in the podcast. Up of your choice can subscribe for free to listen to these topics being married for you and without scary to it as we optimize. Your life focus on creation versus consumption the crack. The code on your days, challenges by J. Clinton of Life and whim. Darksome yesterday was one of those days busy, but not particularly productive, that kind of day its aware me- and they happen more often than only to admit, as I mentioned before, Heather, and I worked together from home working from home.

Many benefits, but also drawbacks. We have flexibility, does no commute and it helps keep business costs down, but there are costs just not financial ones. And, ironically, the flexibility that comes with working from home is one of the main culprits of the costs we bear. The biggest challenge we face is focusing too much on work, which leads to focusing too little on our personal lives. The challenge is multiplied by working together, so easy to be physically present, but not meant So we are office. Is your home? It's also easy to get distracted. It's nice to be able to throw in a load of laundry or get dinner started when you're at home all day, but if not careful Inga consumed by household active. Is, and neglect work bouncing back and forth between broken personal responsibilities means that neither get the attention they deserve. Don't gimme I love working from home and don't think I'll ever go back to working at an off site, physical location and not alone. Arrest

survey by money to have found that eighty six percent of Americans who work from home love or like there sat up and sixty seven percent, report that they are more productive working from home than they are in an office all things in life. It's all about striking the right balance. While came from home enables the type of life I want to live at times. It can lead to site opposite. I too think that I led a productive and purposeful life, but my vision of myself and my actual self are often wildly divergent Ask Heather days like yesterday. Remind me how easy it is to get off track has any Dillard author of the writing. Life said quote. How we spend our days is, of course, how spend our lives, end quote: there's no one size fits all solution to the challenge of maintaining daily focus on what's important, but despite the occasional setback I found something that seems to work for me and maybe a word for you to. If I focus intently on output over input, then good

Things tend to happen, create more than you consume. How do you start your day in my experience too early morning. Hours set the tone for the entire day as apparent three young kids. In order for my morning to start off on the right track, I need to get up early once it is our up. All bets are off are not overly ambitious about my morning routine. However, a focus on accomplishing one thing, and if I can do that, then the rest of the day seems to fall in place. One most popular Lifehack topics, your I discussed in various quarters of the internet is how to establish a successful morning routine. I shall go when I read many of these articles because they typically suggest a combination of some or all of the following activities that are supposed to be completed before eight, a m meditation exercise reading greeting to do list and eating a healthy breakfast. Ha clearly. None of these people have kids, I'm lucky to take a shower most

Isn't I spend more time trying to brush year about my daughter's hair than I do even contemplating meditation as why try to focus on accomplishing just One thing in the morning, typically a work out. Or some writing rather than trying to. You too much so Navy Seal approach to a morning in Hence my speech at the University of Texas Naval, Admiral, William, a grave and explained. Why is important to accomplish something? No matter how? small or seemingly insignificant when he stood your day quote You make your bed every morning. You have accomplished the first task of the day. I'll give you a small sense of pride, I urge you to do another task and another man. Another by the end of the day that one task completed, will turn into many tasks completed. Making Europe I will also reinforced the fact that little things in life matter end quote. The point is to start today

some form of output. Some accomplishment doing begets doing what not to do start today with inputs or consumption. These are to wake up and immediately grab your smartphone and start checking. Email and social media solves enticing to check out other people are doing in order to distract from the craziness of a faces you and your own day. That's not to say that consumption is in itself a bad thing and he not all consumption is created. Equal, thoughtful consumption, reading, great books, watching great movies fuels give output but too much consumption or consumption. The wrong things can leave. You feeling stress the drift and discourage throughout the day. We have big things that were trying to achieve is easy. He caught up in the big picture, obsess over the outcome and feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the task is a reason I find

of consuming be scrolling through Facebook or run into a refrigerator for a snack. Instead of doing what I should be doing, creating by prioritizing output over ample. I almost always have a productive fulfilling day. Keep it in perspective and a balance just as too much input is counterproductive. To much output is to necessity. I caught up in this. Is has alluded to earlier, because I work from home often work too much from home, because I can I do and then are not present mentally and emotionally for those around me? It's something I'm working on, and it helps to keep in mind this insight from Maria Papa, while the sun, argue that today's age is one where the great dream is to trade up from money to meaning does an unshakeable and is comforting sense that in our obsession with optimizing our creative routines and maximizing our productivity, we ve forgotten how to be truly present in the

ironing mystery of life and quote professional success and personal satisfaction. Monotony Truly exclusive: Money and meaning are both attainable. It just takes mindfulness and discipline Benjamin Franklin was one of the most prolific accomplish people in history. The spanish day by asking himself a simple question: what good shall I do this day and ended by reflecting upon what good have I done tat it's a pretty good way to book and your day input for Zapata output forces being present the tricky balancing But if you walk the Thai rope, he can look back on you. Is journey and be content. You just listen to the post. Titled focused on creation versus cost Option to crack the code on your days challenges

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