Jerwin Parker

“As you time-bucket your life, you parcel out a single list of experiences into different and distinct time sections of your life.”
― Bill Perkins, Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

“THE 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 EXERCISE A great way to get motivated is by realizing just how limited your time really is. The 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 exercise is designed to help you contextualize your goals in terms of time. It will quantify your objectives by breaking them down over the short, mid, and long term. If you’re struggling to tackle your goals, give this a try.”
― Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: The ultimate self-help manifesto and guide to productivity and mindful living

“That is what I mean when I say that we die many deaths in the course of our lives: The teenager in you dies, the college student in you dies, the single unattached you dies, the version of you that’s a parent of an infant dies, and so on. Once each of these mini-deaths occurs, there’s no going back. Maybe “dies” is a bit harsh, but you get the idea: We all keep moving forward, progressing from one stage or phase of our lives to the next.”
― Bill Perkins, Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

“How are Sprints different from just dividing a goal into phases? Unlike phases, which are not ends in themselves, Sprints are independent, self-contained projects—thus the outcome is, let’s hope, a source of satisfaction, information, and motivation to keep going (or, as happened with my stop-motion animation project, a helpful cue to let this particular goal go). One author and entrepreneur, for example, was curious about podcasting. It was something he knew little about. Rather than dedicating himself to becoming a podcaster, he set out to do six episodes with his friend Kevin Rose. That experiment turned into The Tim Ferriss Show, the number one business podcast on iTunes, with”
― Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: The ultimate self-help manifesto and guide to productivity and mindful living