Friday Faves

Keeping in line with the theme of a fresh start for the new year in many ways, today’s Friday Faves is a roundup of links that have to do with self-improvement. Most of them are in listicle style because attention spans are limited (I know mine is) and they’re really more fun to read.

Photo by flickr user Leong Him Woh

Timo Kiander suggests 5 zeros to achieve every day in order to keep your mind clear and help you stay productive and on track.

Try Shawn Parr’s 10 steps to better productivity and performance in both your professional and personal life. (That’s a lot of alliteration.)

If you’re feeling stuck and adrift, Mark Manson asks 7 questions to help you figure out what you want to do with your life. They aren’t the questions you think they are!

For those who aren’t fans of interacting with people, Jessica Stillman has 3 tips for promoting yourself and/or your business that are really quite useful to read, regardless of your -vert status.

Work is certainly not everything when it comes to being a better person. Drew Greenblatt draws up 10 ways you can make the most of family time. He focuses exclusively on quality time with children and spouses/partners, but some of the tips are transferable to most lifestyles, such as unplugging during mealtimes.

If you – like me – are trying to get fitter and healthier this year, have a look at Aly Teich’s 10 tips to helping you stay on track.

And in an article that I very much agree with, Jennifer Dziura declares that we should ban the term “working mom” from our vocabulary.

Run Slow

It’s a new year; a new start in many ways. Hope your 2015 shapes up to be as spectacular as you want it to be!

Photo by flickr user graham

Am still aching (in a good way!) from an hour of Power Flow class yesterday, this time at Yoga Movement‘s Carpenter Street studio. I’ve just updated my computer and phone apps, organised the latter, unsubscribed from a lot of unnecessary email lists, and am getting a head start on some projects that I’ve procrastinated on (in my defence, I was out of town and it was Christmas + my birthday).

I also slept a ton this morning and afternoon, pausing in the middle to eat a McDonald’s breakfast, and have found updates on a rather pressing issue involving the Sharktower estate – updates that aren’t the absolute best scenario possible, but are certainly much better than the worst.

I feel fantastic.