Category: Productivity

• Variety in One Thing

  

  I found a very interesting productivity idea in – of all places! – a book on Puritan theology. Find all your satisfaction in “variety in one thing.” (See Hugh Binning’s The Christian’s Primary Obligation, Sermon No. 3.) I’m something of a scattered-brain type of person. I practice and teach law; I preach sermons and write…

  attycortes

  April 16, 2021

  Productivity

  Hugh Binning, one stone, personal, two birds

• Master of One Thing

  “They said that Dioscorus of Namisias made his bread out of barley, and his soup out of lentils. Every year he made one particular resolution: either not to meet anyone for a year, or not to speak, or not taste cooked food, or not to eat any fruit, or not to eat vegetables. This was…

  attycortes

  January 25, 2019

  Productivity

  mastery, sayings of the desert fathers

• Being the Best?

  There’s something about trying to be the best in the world (at least, in my world) that bothers me. Seth Godin recommends focusing your efforts on what you can be the best in the world at; otherwise, if you can’t make it through the dip (read his book: The Dip), then quit. But there’s a…

  attycortes

  January 13, 2019

  Productivity

  best, Seth Godin