New Year’s Change: Cancel Something

Friday, January 06, 2006

I found this New Year's Challenge to Change on Lifehacker.

This is a powerful tip to increase your productivity and lower your stress: cancel something.

Now what to cancel?

Here is an Example: For a year we subscribed to my favorite magazine, The Atlantic. Where I used to love leafing through The Atlantic on the newsstand and then buying a copy to bring home, by the time the second home-delivered issue appeared, I was already jaded. “Feh. Another thing I have to read.” And onto “The Pile” it would go. I’d taken something I occasionally did on purpose and for pure fun and turned it into an experience with all the anticipation and thrill of opening the gas bill.
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