⛅The Sunday Edition

> This week’s top picks…

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Keith Allen
October 15, 2023

> This week’s top picks…

The Intentionality Curve: Living more Intentionally with Habits, Routines, and Rituals

The key is to understand the difference between habits, routines, and rituals, and to design a life where your daily actions allow you to play with the entire spectrum of consciousness.

Ness Labs

I Quit Social Media and Lived to Tell

I Quit Everything documents my extended experiment in hitting pause on a long list of addictive habits, all of which had escalated in intensity during the height of the pandemic lockdown.

Dame

How to Spot Corporate BS

It’s Not Our Fault, It’s Your Fault – Corporations always claim to be acting in the interests of their workers and their customers, even if they are injuring both to benefit their shareholders.

Current Affairs

The Thin Line Between Bold and Reckless

If success requires taking risk that could easily turn into failure, and the line between the two is nearly invisible in real time, I want to learn from people who accidentally stepped over the line and lived to tell the tale.

Morgan Housel

The 5-step "military method" for falling asleep in minutes

When you have to spend your days in stressful, loud, and dangerous conditions, you learn a thing or two about how to fall asleep.

Big Think

🎧 Making things right: how we repair and strengthen our most important relationships

It's never too late to make things right—even when cracks form within our relationships with our families, our environment...or the inevitable.

NPR

The Procrastination Equation By Piers Steel

Do you frequently delay important work until right before the deadline? Do you find yourself distracted and overwhelmed by your daily tasks, unsure of how to begin them? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone—according to Piers Steel, nearly 95% of people say they procrastinate.

In this guide, we’ll discuss the reasons behind procrastination and its consequences, along with Steel’s strategies for combating the most common procrastination triggers.---

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