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The Daily Idea List Exercise
Ideas are the currency of our modern world. They change lives, solve problems, and build businesses. Most people, however, wait passively for good ideas to arrive.
What if you could become someone who consistently generates life-changing ideas, whenever you want to?
The practice is inspired by a concept from James Altucher called The Idea Machine. I encountered it more than 10 years ago and found it so helpful I already wrote a blog post at that time – How To Become An “Idea Machine” —…
The 3 Levels of Joyful Productivity
One of the enduring questions for me — over 16 years as a soulpreneur — is this:
Is it possible to make every moment of work joyful?
I’ve noticed 3 levels that I can approach any workday… and in fact, any work hour.
Level 1: Delayed Gratification
At this first level, what drives a worker is external motivation, a focus on completing a task. Perhaps even attachment to completing it. The work process is simply a means to an end.
- Core Mindset: “I have to get this over with.” The task is fr…
The Three Stages of a Soulpreneur Business: From Hobby to Legacy
It’s been 16 years of running my own business. I started in 2009, and gratefully reached a six figure annual income by 2011. It’s not like this for most soulpreneur businesses. I’ve been thinking about the reality of how most of them actually develop. Not the fairy tale version where you launch and immediately start making money, but the more realistic journey that unfolds in stages.
Many soulpreneurs are suffering with unrealistic expectations, because they don’t realize which stage they’re ac…
Productive Ways for Soulpreneurs To Use AI
Recent research from MIT about AI usage has surfaced the problem of “Cognitive Debt.” It suggests that using AI for writing tasks could lead to lower mental engagement and a weaker sense of ownership over our ideas.
The fear is that by offloading our thinking, we might weaken the very mental muscles we rely on…
This is especially valid for soulpreneurs. Our work is built on deep reflection, intuition, and the unique grounded insights from our personal journey. The last thing we want is to outs…
Truly Deep Work
What is “deep work”?
Cal Newport’s book basically defines it as: deliberately focusing on important and purposeful tasks, so that you can maximize learning, creativity, and productivity. That’s a wonderful aim to have.
But if you’re anything like me, you want to do work not only for the results, but for personal growth and transformation too.
So let’s explore “deep” work… more deeply :)
Redefining Work and Productivity
Work has typically been defined as a means to an end — you work to get r…