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Merlin Mann gets right to the heart of my own current plans:

kung fu grippe - Better

And, to be honest, I don’t have a specific agenda for what I want to do all that differently, apart from what I’m already trying to do every day:

* identify and destroy small-return bullshit;
* shut off anything that’s noisier than it is useful;
* make brutally fast decisions about what I don’t need to be doing;
* avoid anything that feels like fake sincerity (esp. where it may touch money);
* demand personal focus on making good things;
* put a handful of real people near the center of everything.

All I know right now is that I want to do all of it better. Everything better.

Better, better.

I have “fallen off the wagon” over the past two months, as I have been working like a crazy man to manage the catering operations at the resort where my lovely bride works. It was a consulting gig that turned into a full-time day job.

I have written before about not wanting to work to make someone else’s fortune but this was something I had to do for her. The first sentence of The Purpose Driven Life is “It’s not about you,” and that is a truth that I definitely believe in. Sometimes we have to make sacrifices for the greater good. In this case, the greater good was served by putting a bunch of projects on hold until the end of the summer.

Thank you to all of those readers who have patiently waited for new content here, and thank you to Mike St. Pierre for keeping up with the GTD Cafe on Wednesdays. This week is about catching up and cleaning things up here in the hidden base, so watch for some pretty cool new ideas and more in the next couple of weeks.

Have a great day!