3 Things: How We Think About Money, Hating Email, and Resting Your Brain (plus the cutest dog)

3 Things: How We Think About Money, Hating Email, and Resting Your Brain (plus the cutest dog)

February 26, 2019 in Mindful living, SAGE Reads by Sheri Iannetta Cupo

The evolution of how we think about money. Where are you on this journey?

1. Out of the Swamp (Humble Dollar, 2/16/2019)

We can measure our financial progress by the size of our net worth. But that’s hardly the only gauge. Equally important, I’d argue, is the evolution in how we think about money—and how we use it to improve our lives. What does this journey look like? I picture it as having five stages:

Head above water
Thinking about tomorrow
Hitting the accelerator
Ahead of the game
Hardly a second thought

Do you hate email? Or is it possible to think of it as your secret weapon?

2. How I’ve Made Email my Secret Weapon (Aaron Klein, 2/1/2019)

Tips include:

Slow the fire hose
Kill the notifications
Upgrade your tools
Time to triage

Knowledge workers need to rest their brains

3. Busy Is Not a Badge of Honor. Try Doing Nothing for a While (The New York Times, 2/19/2019)

Carl Richards

Knowledge work is much more about the quality of the thinking than the quantity of the output.

Professional runners have to rest their leg muscles. Carpenters have to rest the muscles in their hands. If the primary muscle you use to do your job is your brain, you need to learn how to rest it, too. For the knowledge worker, that means large chunks of unstructured time spent doing nothing.

A bonus as your reward for reading this far

I don't suppose you've seen those two boiled eggs I left sitting on the kitchen sideboard by any chance? pic.twitter.com/dV2YSbZL6R

— Stevie K (@1StevieKilner) February 17, 2019

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Sheri Iannetta Cupo, CFP®, Founding Partner (Retired) & Director

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