#personal-growth
Every item in the public site that shares this topic, gathered across writing, book notes, and publications.
- Entries
- 60 total
- Writing
- 47
- Book notes
- 11
- Publications
- 2
Writing
2024
- May 30, 2024 Embracing Parenthood: Facing Life Through the Eyes of a Child
A reflection on parenthood, hardship, and daily resilience.
2023
- Jan 9, 2023 Gamify Your Learning Process With Habitica
How Habitica turns habits and tasks into a gamified learning system.
2022
- Nov 17, 2022 Taming the Digital Dragon
Why the addiction frame can distort how we talk about tech use.
- Apr 3, 2022 Bearing Witness
A personal reflection on grief, ceremony, and bearing witness.
- Feb 14, 2022 The Beginning Will Suck
Why starting a new project often feels messy before it gets better.
- Feb 2, 2022 Think Of Your Life In Chunks
Why long-term thinking works better when you break life into chunks.
2021
- May 25, 2021 Mental Health and Depression
How trauma and depression affect learning, life, and well-being.
- May 21, 2021 Developing An Attitude of Gratitude
How gratitude can support well-being and empathy.
- May 1, 2021 Carriage House Flooring
We recently moved to our new home, and as a result we have a lot of new projects to complete.
- Mar 4, 2021 Transform a Chore Into a Choice
How to turn obligation into agency by reframing a chore as a choice.
- Mar 2, 2021 Finding Value in Life
How to notice value and meaning in everyday life.
- Jan 22, 2021 Cognitive Bias & The Sunk Cost Fallacy
A simple look at sunk costs and the difficulty of starting over.
- Jan 18, 2021 Make Time for Self-Care
A brief case for self-care as a practice that supports mental, emotional, and physical health.
- Jan 8, 2021 Luck, Preparation, and Opportunity
A reflection on how preparation and opportunity shape what we call luck.
- Jan 4, 2021 How are you complicit?
A hard question about how we help create the conditions we resist.
2020
- Dec 15, 2020 Considerations of Death
How technology and social networks shape our views of death.
- Dec 8, 2020 Sharpen Your Saw
Why sharpening your saw means protecting time to renew yourself.
- Nov 24, 2020 Little things add up to big things
How small habits add up to big changes over time.
- Nov 17, 2020 Be joyful, loving, & explosive
A Bradbury quote about joy, love, and creative energy.
- Nov 16, 2020 Stop overscheduling
Why too much on your calendar can lead to burnout.
- Nov 13, 2020 Hell Yeah…or No
A simple filter for deciding what’s worth your time and energy.
- Nov 11, 2020 Becoming Self-Actualized
A reflection on self-actualization, freedom, and long-term purpose.
- Nov 9, 2020 Are you busy or productive?
A quick check on whether you're busy or actually productive.
- Nov 4, 2020 Live an Antifragile Way of Life
What antifragility means and why growth can come from disorder.
- Nov 2, 2020 Doors of Perception
How perception shapes what we think is true and why that matters.
- Oct 26, 2020 Seeing the change in the world
How our beliefs shape the way we see change in the world.
- Oct 12, 2020 Work like a maker, not a manager
A reminder to protect maker time instead of over-scheduling like a manager.
- Oct 1, 2020 What’s on the other side of failure? Nothing
A reminder that failure is often just part of learning to play.
- Sep 30, 2020 Value In Finishing
Why finishing matters more than starting when work gets hard.
- Sep 25, 2020 On Living Well
A reflection on living well instead of just living longer.
- Sep 23, 2020 Pause & Reboot
A reminder to pause, reboot, and notice the mind at work.
- Sep 22, 2020 Stop Waiting for “What’s Next”
Why waiting for what's next can keep you from actually living.
- Sep 21, 2020 Are you on offense or defense?
A reminder to stay on offense when setting and pursuing goals.
- Sep 17, 2020 Ikigai
A reflection on ikigai, purpose, and what you want from your work.
2019
- Jan 16, 2019 Semi-Permeable Membranes as Digital Learning Spaces
Why failure can be part of learning and knowledge growth.
2018
- May 1, 2018 Practicing what you preach
A reminder that leadership means aligning your actions with your principles.
- Apr 19, 2018 Viewing your life as a project
A Stoic view of life as an ongoing project of ethical self-development.
- Apr 12, 2018 Moving beyond survival
A reflection on awareness, contemplation, and moving beyond survival.
- Apr 4, 2018 How to have a good life and be happy
A first-principles take on what it means to have a good life.
- Feb 22, 2018 Living in agreement with your personal nature
How to live in agreement with your values and daily actions.
- Feb 13, 2018 Creating a strategic plan for your life
Why a strategic plan should shape more than just the next task.
- Feb 13, 2018 Developing a personal vision statement
How to write a personal vision statement that guides choices and action.
- Jan 31, 2018 Developing resilience and preparing for adversity
How resilience and adversity shape growth, learning, and recovery.
2017
- Dec 7, 2017 Using a daily gratitude journal to start your day
How a daily gratitude journal can steady your morning.
- Nov 16, 2017 Goals, Strategies, Objectives, & Tactics
A simple framework for turning a plan into goals, strategies, objectives, and tactics.
2015
- Sep 22, 2015 The 30 Day Challenge
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- Sep 21, 2015 Meditation, Mindfulness, & Gaining Headspace in My Workflow
How meditation and mindfulness can improve your workflow.
Book notes
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- 2022 The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
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- 2021 The Comfort Crisis
Michael Easter
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- 2021 Risk Forward
Victoria Labalme
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- 2019 The Self-Driven Child
William Stixrud, Ned Johnson
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- 2018 Atomic Habits
James Clear
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- 2017 Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life
Gary John Bishop
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- 2016 How to stop worrying & start living
Dale Carnegie
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- 2015 SuperBetter
Jane McGonigal
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- 2013 Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
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- 2010 Switch
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
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- 2007 The 4-Hour Work Week
Timothy Ferriss
Publications
2024
- 2024 Finding Exponential Hope in Courageous Communities
Journal article · Crandall, Bryan Ripley; Dail, Jennifer; Goering, Christian Z; Mora, Raúl Alberto; O’Byrne, W Ian; Price-Dennis, Detra; Witte, Shelbie. (2024). Finding Exponential Hope in Courageous Communities. Voices from the Middle.
2020
- 2020 Literacy across the Disciplines: Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Literacy Instruction in Middle and High School Classrooms
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Savitz, Rachelle S.; Morrison, Jennifer; Kane, Britnie; Lilly, Todd; Ming, Kavin Michelle; Aldrich, Charlene. (2020). Literacy across the Disciplines: Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Literacy Instruction in Middle and High School Classrooms. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas.