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July 17, 2021
Notion OKRs: How I Set and Achieve My Biggest, Most Ambitious Goals
One problem I’ve always had with traditional goal setting is not knowing what I want so far in the future. In Q1 2020, for instance, I started a weekly newsletter called Words Into Works. But after 52-consecutive weeks, I realized I had to pause it to prioritize a more important goal (launching Getting Things Done […]
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June 28, 2021
Don’t Set Out To Build a Wall. Do This Instead.
It was a hot summer’s day in 1980, and Willard Carroll Smith Jr. and his brother Harry were standing wide-eyed with their mouths open in confusion. [1] Where a wall once stood in front of their father’s shop was now a hole—a hole that the boys’ father had made himself for reasons that weren’t made […]
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June 21, 2021
Don’t Solve Problems, Focus on Bright Spots Instead
In 1990, Jerry Sternin, the then US Country Director of Save the Children, traveled to Vietnam to fight malnutrition. The condition was at an all-time high, with one Vietnamese in three suffering from malnutrition and one in four facing starvation. [1] Sternin traveled to rural villages and learned from conversations with local groups of mothers […]
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June 17, 2021
How to Build a Notion Commonplace Book (Step-by-Step)
A few years ago, I read an article by author Ryan Holiday about how and why to keep “a commonplace book.” A commonplace book, if you’re unfamiliar, is a notebook, digital or otherwise, that you fill with information like ideas from books, notes from courses, thought-provoking quotes, and more. Holiday’s commonplace book, comprising thousands of […]
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June 13, 2021
How to Build a Resonance Calendar in Notion (Incl. 3 Use Cases)
I follow a lot of brilliant people on Twitter. And most, if not all of them, tweet thoughts worth saving to reflect on and learn from later. I used to “Like” my favorites, hoping to return to them later. But without an organizational process in place, I rarely returned to them, and if I did, […]
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A Peek Inside My Evernote Commonplace Book
If you’re an avid reader, you’ve probably been there… You’re reading a book, making notes and highlighting passages that are meaningful to you, and you say to yourself, “There are so many great ideas in this book. I’ll write up my notes when I finish.” But for one reason or another—you never get round to […]
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May 14, 2021
How to Build a Notion Commonplace Book (Step-by-Step)
A few years ago, I read an article by author Ryan Holiday about how and why to keep “a commonplace book.” A commonplace book, if you’re unfamiliar, is a notebook, digital or otherwise, that you fill with information like ideas from books, notes from courses, thought-provoking quotes, and more. Holiday’s commonplace book, comprising thousands of […]
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January 20, 2021
My Notion Note-Taking System (Or How I Read Online)
I love learning from online content as much as I do from books. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an article, an email newsletter, or a tweetstorm—if there’s a lesson I can gleam related to an area of interest, I want to write it down. Up until recently, I didn’t have a good system for reading […]
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December 28, 2020
The Five-Minute Journal: Is It Worth $22.95 in 2021?
If you’re like most people, you were brought up to believe success begets happiness. In other words, if you get that promotion, get accepted into that Ivy League college, lose 14 pounds … then you will be happy. Make sense, right? There’s only one problem… …it’s completely backward. Here’s why: In the 1990s, Harvard lecturer, […]
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October 11, 2020
Notion Backlinks: Why I Love Them (And How I Use Them)
If you’re looking to learn more about Notion backlinks… You’re in the right place. In this article, I’ll cover how everything you need to know about Notion backlinks, including: What Notion backlinks are; How I’m using them in my Commonplace Book; and My three favorite use cases. Let’s get started. What Are Notion Backlinks? Backlinks […]
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