What would you focus on if you have 24 hours or just one hour left?
Focus. Pay attention. Listen up. Because you have 8 seconds until you get distracted after reading this, according to a 2015 Microsoft study on human attention-spans.
Where the Annual Personal Forecast meets the Annual Review we find a vivid crossroads of recollection and intention. These two activities are kindred and symbiotic bedfellows that drive each other onwards.
Writing morning pages is the habit of scrawling three pages of ANY words in a notebook first thing in the morning. It sounds frivolous. Or it might sound difficult. However the results speak clearly for themselves and can only be appreciated by getting up, putting on the kettle and streaming three full pages of your thoughts directly onto a fresh white page.
Everything takes much longer in life than you’d expect. We're all wild and dangerous optimists when it comes to assessing how long it'll take us to finish a job. So maximise your chances of staying motivated with this handful of elemental tips.
Like an exhausted foreign legion, our brains are constantly sweeping our lives for new behaviours to recruit into a habit. Our minds crave the calmness that the autopilot that a pattern promises.
