The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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I Intermittent Fast on a daily basis. For the uninitiated, that means no food until noon, and then I have an 8 hour window to eat and get my food in. I’ve personally found that my mornings are far more productive, I get far less...
Your focus is absolutely horrendous. But, so is everyone’s. I am willing to bet that you couldn’t even make it to the end of this post without looking at your phone once. That’s because you have forgotten the fundamental skill of...
As humans, we border on an OBSESSION of control. We are control freaks - we want everything the way we want it. If we cannot have it that way, we will try to force the universe’s hand Let’s do a thought experiment and see what we can...
Most people care far too much what others think of them. They live lives in which they are “supposed to act a certain way” or “expected to be a certain kind of person”. Worse than this - I can pin point the average person’s personality...
I have a love hate relationship with “Productivity”. On one hand, actual productivity is one of the greatest feelings in this life - getting closer to the goals that you have set for yourself, achieving, overcoming obstacles. The days on...
In a world of overwhelm, why not Simplify? Really Simple Sindication was created in the early 2000’s for the purpose of allowing the end user to aggregate the feeds of multiple websites into a single place, making it far easier to...
From the seatback table between London and Budapest and the train between Vienna and Prague. When you travel, do you notice that more ideas seem to flow through you? Do you notice how the momentum, the “struggle of travel” (if you can...
We all use our phones too much. We can rationalize it with “well I’m using it for work” or “I’d just be using my computer anyway”, but the fact remains that spending 5.4 Hours a Day on a screen held but a few inches from your face is...
I have a 6th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and the thing runs HOT. Lately, I’ve attached my dual monitor setup to it, and have been running temperatures in the high 70’s - and sometimes up into the low 90’s(!) CPU Repaste and Fan clean# As the...
Here is THE rule for growth in life: Become Who you Want to be Surrounded By. What do I mean by that? Simple. We attract what we truly are into our lives. So, by becoming what you want in your life, you attract the people, things, and...
I have figured out the final boss of life - being productive for sustained periods of time. Read on to learn how you can completely change your life in the next 50 minutes. We’ve all heard of the Pomodoro Technique by now. It is not a...
Let me put this into perspective: Every day matters. A decade is just a string of 3,650 days. And, if you are 30 years old reading this right now - You have 20,000 days left to live. Probably far less than that. You could be walking...
Most of us wake up and are at the whim of everyone and anyone that wants our time - clients, staff, friends, family, the list goes on. The platforms that we frequent trade in our attention and focus, and when that’s not enough, so do all...
A bit of a short post today, but hopefully impactful for you. I recently made a post about RSS Feeds, and how setting one up is a major shift to more conscious consumption of content. But, perhaps the biggest thing I have done to...
Every single business that you walk into, you should be able to analyze how it is going, if it is profitable, if you would invest, and how you would execute better were you to open a competitor next door. I was sitting in a coffeeshop...