When Success Can be a Mistake and Why Failure is Like Gold

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The response I tend to get from people when I tell them I messed up is, “Well, we learn from our mistakes.” Whenever someone says that I give it about a second of thought and put it back in my vault of cliche-but-true remarks.

I’ve taken on a lot in the last three months–more than anyone really should. Click the link to see my average week, for the last three months of this year. I fill in activities retroactively to track time-usage but I have a fair amount of it planned before hand–if something comes up, Outlook allows me to move things around very easily.

It wasn’t an issue of “spreading myself too thin.” This is a very carefully crafted schedule optimized over the course of four weeks to assure the highest quality work I could produce in each area. But there was still a problem…

Challenging “Work” as a Counterproductive Idea

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I’m a very busy person and if you are too, you’ve probably been told to take it easy every now and then. Yesterday talking with a friend about my about 80 hours or so of work per week, he expressed his concern about whether or not it’s a balanced lifestyle.

This is definitely the reaction I would expect coming from someone who cares about me but this particular time it struck me for the first time as an odd thing to say.

This quasi-reflective post is of a nature I’ll not often publish on BrainChocolate but it’s extremely relevant to a very important post I published called “Productivity Tips and Free Time Management: How to Create a System That Works for You.” In it, I walk step by step through starting the process of organizing your entire life by massively reducing stress, increasing productivity by thousands of times, and living the kind of life you want. A big promise for sure but you can evaluate it once you read it.