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Day: June 27, 2012

Pocket watch pendent

Day 178 | When time matters

There are certain situations when time matters more and where lack of information causes unnecessary annoyance and waste of time. In the last week and a bit I’ve experience two such situations where simple alerts could have more or less avoided them.

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Swedish packaging

Day 177 | Sweden & the future

There is a constant inner battle in me about Sweden and my future. Though moving back is not on the agenda I’ve been wanting to spend more time at home for a while and now it’s starting to look up.

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Week 25

Day 176 | Week 25 summary

Half of this week has been spent in Sweden seeing friends and family and celebrating midsummer. With that a few days have been taken out of the calendar from doing work. But it’s safe to say that I needed some time off.

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Day 175 | An unplanned break going offline

As always I planned to write these posts whilst I was away but with going from one place to the next and not always having an internet connection (and quite frankly very few minutes in the day to myself and to write), I decided to give posting these a rest

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Sleepy

Day 172 | Late night. Early morning.

It’s the day before I’m due to head home for a few days and I’m working late in the office again. Though the washing is done the bag isn’t packed. My flight leaves at 6.50am. I won’t be getting a lot of sleep.

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Why you should write every day

You probably think you have nothing to write about but once you start it gets hard to stop. Honestly. Writing is an incredibly important skill at all levels. By writing every day you reflect on things in a different and clearer way and you become better at expressing yourself. If you haven’t tried writing every day, give it a try for 30 days to begin with. I did it every day of 2012. Seth Godin has done it for years and swears by it.