Tag: Habits

Do it as you go

Posted on by philipdodson

Today’s blog is a simple life tip.

Deal with things as you go along.

I decided to sort out 20 years of home filing today.

I spent hours recycling, then an hour with the shredder, then when that kept over heating, the sensitive stuff had to go one page at a time onto the bbq.

Three bank accounts, 5 different utility bills, phone bills, council tax statements, pensions, ISAs and so on, for 20 years.

Never again.

Open the post, decide to keep or recycle/shred. Repeat everytime post arrives. Once every 6 months clear the file and repeat.

Amazing at any age you keep learning new lessons.

Just keep the absolute minimum of anything.

Late

Posted on by philipdodson

Some days we run out of time.

Some days we do not have an ace up the sleeve.

Some days we just run out of steam.

Some days we do not have the energy.

However, if you set yourself a small daily ritual, and you keep doing it every single day for long enough. It won’t matter how late in the day or lacking in energy you are, you will not want to break the streak.

Tiny daily steps matter even when you do them late in the day.

As Seinfeld does with his daily joke writing, he never breaks the chain.