Define My Day Blog
Anxiety Sucks – How to stop it in 3 steps
Anxiety is common. Everyone experiences it. Some of us are paralyzed by it. While I've seldom experienced anxiety to the extend that it was debilitating, I can appreciate that it happens to a lot of people. Quite often, I see Define My Day users that mention it. They...
Using Define My Day on Thanksgiving
Recently, a person in the user group asked if he should bring his DMD with him to visit his father during a trip for the Thanksgiving holiday. My response, "of course!" Here's why: Being focused is not all about work! It's about taking a few moments to clearly set our...
Change Your Behaviors to Change Your Experience
Your world and how you experience it is largely dependent on your brain. How you experience an event can be totally different from the person next to you. Why? Your perceptions are colored by years of experience. And, when you perceive an event one way, expect to...
How To Reward Yourself
The other day, I wrote about the "first things first" mentality that I try to keep in order to make sure I spend my energy on what matters. There's another component of this that I want to point out. We can't reap the rewards of our efforts before actually doing the...
Priority Actions – First Things First
It's super important to grow your awareness of your energy. How much you have What is worth spending it on What uses it What restores it If you've followed along with me, you may know that I keep reef aquariums again. It was a hobby of mine years ago and I started...
Do The Work
Stop stressing about what you haven’t done. Stop dreaming about what you can do and start an action that moves you forward. Then, keep doing it.
Too Overwhelmed to Start – Make this change now
Ever get so worked up dreaming about goals that you forget to actually work toward them? Or, they end up seeming so big that you're too overwhelmed to start? Don't feel bad. It happens to everyone. We naturally enjoy fantasizing about all of the things we can...
Is Your Attitude Stopping You?
Do you have a bad attitude? Your answer to that question may be defensive, "Of course I don't!" Indignant... "How dare you!" Or honest... "sometimes..." The fact is, we all have an area or maybe many areas in life where we can improve our attitude. It occurred to me...
How To Keep the To-Do List from Ruling Your Life.
Recently, in our Define My Day user group, a user said that getting dog food was a priority for the day. It happens. However, we don't want to let routine "to-do list" tasks overtake our priorities on a regular basis. Sometimes, we need to take care of a suddenly...