3 Minutes Of Timecrafting With Mike Vardy

In this second part of a three-part series on what noticing does, I offer up the one thing you can start doing today that will improve your sense of awareness and ability to pay attention to what you're noticing every single day.

In the first part of a three-part series on "noticing" I discuss why I've chosen to explore this subject and the beginnings of what noticing does for you.

I've made no secret of my love for the comic book hero Green Lantern. I've not been a lifelong fan of the character but over the past decade or so, Hal Jordan's version has been a big part of my life.

There are seven days in a week and between 28 and 31 in a month. Not one of them is the same as another, no matter how routine you may try to make them. There will always be days that challenge you more than others.

If you’re looking at your to do list with a sense of sheer hopelessness more often than not, then you’re making the wrong kind of to do list.

Comedian George Burns once said, “If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.” He was right.

I’ll let you in a little secret: busywork is not always productive work. Thinking that is the case puts you in the crosshairs of performing acts of foolish productivity.

Yesterday I shared with you the first half of what I’ve called my Annual Axiom. Today I’m going to explain why “No Matter What” is the second element of this element of my TimeCrafting methodology.

In the advertising leading up to the release of the Marvel movie Avengers: Endgame, the phrase “Whatever it takes” was a central theme. That definitely piqued my interest in a way that was rather unexpected.

When you look at your daily to do list does it appear to be...honest? Or are there things on there that you know aren’t going to be accomplished in a single day?

When you're trying to make some changes in your life – whether they are related to time management or not – you've got to find a way to make these things stick.

I live in a part of the world where an umbrella is a wise investment. It pretty much rains in Victoria off and on from November through April.

Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatdely and expecting a different result. So perhaps sanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting the same result?

Everything that is big starts out as something small. James Clear has even gone so far as to call the core habits that can help us get better “atomic.”

The IDEA Criteria is something I use to evaluate each and every big idea that I have, so that I know whether or not it is worth moving forward on-or how much time I want to invest at any given point.

Take a look at your to do list. Can you honestly say that there’s not one task on that list that you’ll need more than just today to complete? That it won’t be done today but it will be “almost” done?

After speaking with Austin Kleon earlier this week for an episode of my weekly podcast, I decided to dig into the idea of wasting time.

Last time I shared with you my thoughts on your to do list - the idea that it is your story. But there's another productivity practice that acts as a story that you need to take time to tell. I wonder if you do that already...

Believe it or not, your to do list a story. The question is: is it a story that you want to be telling...or living?

Some people cannot theme their days – or enough of them to make the practice a worthwhile pursuit for them. But there are other ways to theme your time. You just need to think outside the box a bit.