Jeffrey C. Long

I’ve put a lot of time into trying to organize my world and read a lot about personal productivity. Always with the mindset that I am not accomplishing all I could, and am dropping balls. But this quote from Howard Thurman on the Inward/Outward site says that there is something else to be gained from […]

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I’ve been mulling over the amount of information that I archive. It seems a little obsessive, even self-absorbed. My poor children are going to have to cope with it all when I am gone. I have five 3″ binders filled with my writings from about 5-10 years ago. And now with […]

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I’ve lately discovered the glory of a good purge.

We’ve been in the process of moving in the last year. It began when our house in Ephrata sold and we had to pack up all our worldly belongings and put it in a storage unit awaiting the construction of our new home. We had […]

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In “The Contemplative Pastor” Eugene Peterson writes

“How can I persuade a person to live by faith and not by works if I have to juggle my schedule constantly to make everything fit into place.”

I’ve recently begun a discipline of slowing down and absorbing more of my world. I’ve noticed that I hurry through things […]

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Amendment 2005/01/04 I discovered that there is a limit to the number of characters that iCal can hold in the notes section. So this isn’t ideal. I’ll have to come up with a different way. Does anyone know how to create a hyperlink to a file that is on the computer, rather […]

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I’ve begun a ritual I like to call Flat Surfaces Day. You may be like me and gradually made stacks all over kingdom come on anything that is horizontal. Often when I clean, I’m trying to vacuum, get things off the floor, re-shelve books, put things away. But what accumulates are the […]

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This is a simple little trick to help you remember to do things. The first place I learned it was from the book Mind Hacks which showed that you can combine the reward system of caffeine with something you need to remember on a regular basis. I have medicine that I’m supposed to […]

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