by Matthew Rehrl MD | Goals
November is the month I start brainstorming my goals for the following year. It’s a running list on my Reminders app, making fleeting ideas very easy to capture. During November, this list will expand to about 10-15 possible goals for the following year. Then, in...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity
Great ideas are a dime a dozen. That’s roughly 0.83 cents an idea. I have plenty of ideas. For example, I currently have—written out and accessibly filed—the following idea sets: Blog Topics: 153 ideasBig Ideas: 45 ideasProduct ideas: 4 ideasAffiliate ideas: 19...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Habit, Writing Habits
How did I keep up a daily blogging habit for nearly a year? Well, one way is that whenever I was bored, or at loose ends, or just sitting there twiddling my thumbs, I wrote a blog post. Even if it was short. Or not very good. Or a post like...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Ikigai
As I have mentioned in a previous post (I Am Blogging About Too Many Topics), although I feel good about blogging daily—after all, it’s not just a daily writing practice, it’s a daily publishing practice—I don’t like that my blog is unfocused. It’s not that I write...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing
My desk lamp isn’t just “aesthetically unpleasing.” It’s ugly. The base is too wide. There are cables and wires everywhere. It’s bulky, without any elegance of design. And its rotating joints are exposed and complicated. I cringe whenever I see it. Yet, it does one...
