Tips

Hack and change your habits

If like me you have habits you want to change, I know an app that can help you.

Hack and change your routines with the app Lift →

Lift makes it easier to change your habits and achieve your goals by encourage for change of your daily routines. The app records your habits so you can track your …

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Books I have read lately

The Flinch by Julien Smith

Highlight 1:

“You can’t settle for reaching other people’s limits. You have to reach yours.”

Highlight 2:

“Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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Goals or not

Leo Babauta and Tim Ferris discuss if goals is good or bad for us as individuals.

Leo think that the problem with goals is that it’s the end point, if we pursue a goal, and regardless of what we learned from it, or how much fun we had on the road, we feel that we have failed anyway and move forward.

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A month without alcohol

A few months ago I came across an article that made me reflect on how often I drink alcohol. I drink far less now than I did before but realized that I haven’t had a break without alcohol for more than 2 weeks max in 10 years. Since I turned 18-19 I’ve been drinking 2-6 times a month. And the last …

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The pride in your profession

There’s so much to do, especially in a startup. Or in any company. The smaller the company is, the more tasks per person.

We all have some task we like to do, things we know we are good at. Then there are tasks that needs to be done, which we find less fun to do, things we’re not so good at and feel …

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Getting real

37signals, which recently changed their name and focus and is now called Basecamp, is a relatively small company with a great spread. They began as a web agency in 1999 and a few years later began launching their own products. Recent years have one of the founders, Jason Fried, written some books, …

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To hit publish

Okay, so I’m on my 12th post in my blog challenge. And it’s still pretty hard.

To press the publish button.

I don’t want to be stupid or boring. There always those concerns. And I don’t think I’m alone. There are certainly many people who don’t write because they are afraid to be stupid, boring, …

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Public speaking

Oops, this became a very long post and a real trip down memory lane for me. If you want practical tips on speaking in public, you can scroll down to the last part of the text. Sorry, but like I said, I have promised myself to press publish.

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Start Small

When I thinking back on the most successful things I managed to carry out, all have one thing in common. They have started small.

Take baby steps.

It sounds easy and obvious. I’ve always had big goals and often fight with my own ambitions in everything I do and I don’t think I’m alone. Right?

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