Category: Motivation

21 days: Focus on one habit at a time

Welcome back to day 4 of the 21 Days to a More Disciplined Life challenge. (See what the big deal is here, and buy the book to follow along here.) It’s hard to choose just one habit to adjust, isn’t it? I could think of several without trying! But it’s important to focus on just …

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21 Day Challenge: Life Hack

This post is part of the 21 Days to a More Disciplined Life Challenge (here’s my introduction to the challenge). I’d love for you to join in! Day 3: Shabbat (means a small amount of time for a project!) Assignment 1:Keep up with yesterday’s “small thing” My small thing was clearing off my desk. Hey, my desk wasn’t used …

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21 Day Challenge: Bit by Bit

It takes a while to form a routine or a habit, right? That’s the moral of the story for today’s challenge. You can’t turn everything around over night (unfortunately!!) Today, the practical assignment was to choose one small step to do every day for the next week: make your bed, file your papers immediately, put …

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21 Day Challenge Day 1: Discipline is a choice

This post is part of the 21 Days to a More Disciplined Life Challenge (here’s my introduction to the challenge). I’d love for you to join in! Day 1: Discipline is a choice Instead of addressing the root issue – my own, personal lack of self-discipline – I convince myself that a fancy new system or …

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21 Days to a More Disciplined Life: The Challenge

It’s not quite 8 AM here. I’m dressed and made up. I’ve already washed, dried, and folded several loads of laundry, set up our science experiment, cooked a hot breakfast for all, photocopied our middot / character study unit… OK, that’s not true. It’s really midnight and I’m mostly set up for tomorrow, but here …

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21 Days to a More Disciplined Life (and my first giveaway!)

A while ago, I had a post titled, “Where’s Amital?” Remember that old series “Where’s Waldo?” I feel a kind of kinship with the red-and-white striped guy lately, or at least my usual productivity does. I wrote about the calm after the storm (moving), but find myself in another spot of calm after the holidays of …

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