Life Lessons, Productivity

How To Be Productive When Your Life Is In Chaos

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chaos and order

In a perfect world, everything is steady. You can make plans that actually come true 100% of the time. You can anticipate things in advance.

But as you and I both know, that’s not how life works.

In real life, a single random (and unexpected) event can suddenly screw up all your plans, goals, and good intentions to make a change. Think of…

  • A family member who passes away.
  • Getting pregnant.
  • Getting into a car accident.
  • A calamity at work that causes bankruptcy.
  • Falling in love.

Unplanned events can disrupt everything. I’ve experienced that several times in my life. And there’s nothing you can do to prevent unexpected events.

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Productivity, Self-Knowledge

Did You Fail At Something? Good—Do Something Else

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Do you have plans, goals, ideals, or outcomes that you want to achieve? And do you get frustrated when things don’t go according to plan?

If so, I want to share a simple, yet powerful idea with you in this article.

I learned this from Jocko Willink’s book Discipline Equals Freedom. The idea is very simple. Jocko believes that complaining when things go wrong is useless.

He says:

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Life Lessons, Self-Knowledge

10 Practical Answers To 10 Powerful Questions

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questions and answers

The other day I received an email from a reader with 10 powerful questions she wanted me to answer. No introduction. No small talk.

Just a list of questions and “Thanks for your time” at the bottom.

Naturally, my first response was, “What?!”

But as I read the questions more carefully, I thought, “I can turn this into an article.” I was truly impressed by the quality of the questions of my reader, Mary.

So I wrote back to thank her for the inspiration. Here are my answers:

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Happiness, Personal Finance, Self-Knowledge

Financial & Emotional Freedom: What Does It Take?

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money and happiness

I always worked for financial freedom. But I chased the wrong thing. I wanted emotional freedom.

Money doesn’t make you happy. And yet, we need it to live. So what do we do? Try hard to make more money? Or, be content with what we have?

The problem is that both options come with high costs.

We’ve all heard about the research that says you won’t be happier if you earn more than $75K or some other magic figure.

We’ve all heard about these studies by now. And yet, it doesn’t make a bit of an impact on the way we live.

At least, those findings never changed the way I chased money in my life. And neither did it change anyone I personally know.

The problem with these averages is that they are averages. And yet, mindless writers keep quoting this research that says money doesn’t make you happy.

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