How to Control Your Habits (Exercise)
Exercise 22: Complete your “I want to control my habits” A6 from the last exercise. You may want to improve the mantra or value statement. No more advice from me. Go ahead. Now. Start controlling your...
View ArticleWhat is Micro-Meditation? (Exercise)
Remember my post about Micro-Sport? Here is something similar: Micro-Meditation. Give Micro-Meditation a try now.Click To Tweet Smile Slightly raise your eye-brows Let your shoulders fall down a little...
View ArticleHabit Control Cheat Sheet
(Right click on the image and choose “Save target as…” to download full resolution file, 313KB) Some time ago, you have read posts about habit change and habit control. I condensed some of them them...
View ArticleHave You Tried Visual Management for Kids?
The snapshot above is the morning scoreboard for our kid. Every morning during the week, we have a tight schedule. Both my wife and I work full time. The little one needs to get into kindergarten on...
View ArticleDo a “Red Tag Session.” Do It Now.
Exercise 26: Do a “Red Tag Session.” Do it Now. Remember my last post about chaotic islands? I shortly mentioned the red tag concept. The idea is simple: items that are not regularly used in a work...
View Article3 Reasons Why I don’t Like “Best Practices”
In my line of business, the term “Best Practices” is very common. It is an abbreviation for the sum of all experiences people have made, condensed into how-to instructions, (design or behavior)...
View ArticleHow to Write a Lean Diary
Have you ever started a diary, keeping up the enthusiasm for some days, and then skipped the habit? Do you have lots of diaries from your past, but never look into them again? In this post I suggest...
View ArticleHabit Stacking in a Nutshell
I recently stumbled upon the book Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less by S.J. Scott. The concept is very simple but powerful. Instead of a classical review, you will...
View ArticleWelcome to the World of Mini Habits
The journey into Lean Self blogging is very fascinating for me. Sometimes I come up with patently absurd ideas, like micro-meditation or the Lean diary. Then I discover somebody else who made a cool...
View ArticleDo You Listen to Your Own Advice?
This Wednesday, I was fighting against my bicycle. Half of the distance to work I had the feeling to drive uphill. What went wrong? Flashback to exactly two months ago.Click To Tweet Maybe you remember...
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