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JacobMiller | September 5, 2013 | 22 Comments

How Sacrificing a Night of Sleep Ignited My Creativity

One Friday I did not go to bed. I stayed up all night. Why the heck would I do that?

Well I had a good friend of mine that was visiting the area and he sent me a text asking, “What are you doing around sunrise tomorrow?” In that moment I was trying to plan out the rest of my evening and figure out my logistics of sleep and where we would meet. Then my gut just told me to throw it all away and drive to pick him and a few friends up and drive to the shore of Lake Michigan.

JacobMiller | August 29, 2013 | 26 Comments

Stay on track. It keeps you there.

Photo Credit: Krystian Olszanski

When you want to get big projects done, it is important to be consistent and stay on track. It can be easy to derail or give up, but there are ways to prevent that from happening. We have to learn to build up great habits to do great things.

So how can we stay on track and achieve greatness?

JacobMiller | August 22, 2013 | 34 Comments

Pace yourself to stay focused.

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”565px” height=”” background_color=”#dfdfdf” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]This is the first post on my blog from Jacob Miller. He is a leader, a mentor through personal development, a writer and a photographer. He shows us how we can implement creativity in our own lives and gives us advice from his personal work. Read more from him on his own blog, fragments.kineticbear.com. He will be posting here on asmithblog.com every Thursday about how we can all become better leaders.[/dropshadowbox]

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It’s easy to get overwhelmed with tasks that we take on. When we are helpful by nature sometimes that can get the best of us. We tend to fill our plate with more than we can handle. That can help us become stronger and grow, but it can also burn us out and that is no good. Our focus can become scattered when we have too many projects.

I have seen this happen to myself and realized a few things along the way. [Read more…] about Pace yourself to stay focused.

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One Friday I did not go to bed. I stayed up all night. Why the heck would I do that?

So how can we stay on track and achieve greatness?