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My Top 10 Favorite Posts on Minafi from 2017

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It’s been an amazing first year writing here on Minafi. Technically, I started the blog in August of 2016, but it took a while for me to understand what I was doing. Here are my top 10 favorite posts from 2017. These aren’t necessarily the top 10 most popular, or most commented on, or most revenue generating – but these are the top 10 posts from the year that I’m the proudest.

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Living for Tomorrow vs Living for Today

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With New Years around the corner, there are a lot of people making resolutions (myself included). While I’ll likely be building on my keystone habits, I’ve been trying to balance future goals and present happiness in my planning. The idea is, I want some of my goals and resolutions to have an impact now on my happiness, and some based on improving happiness down the line.

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Growing Kids Self-Control For $5 a Week

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When I was a kid, my dad (perhaps accidentally) stumbled on a way to grow my self-control. In addition to my $10 a week allowance which could be spent on whatever I wanted, he gave me $5 a week that I needed to save. This started when I was about 8 years old or so and continued until I went to college. Once I had $100 saved up in my dresser drawer, we went to the bank and opened a savings account for me.

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All my Coworkers Just Learned about my Blog – Here’s What Happened

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There’s a complicated line between side projects and day to work jobs. The sentiment on outside endeavors differs drastically by industry, company size, location, revenue of the business – and most importantly coworkers. It’s no secret that I moved out to Salt Lake City. One of the reasons why was because of the company and an amazing team I get to work with out here. I’d been working remote for a while, making the leap to working in person with people has been a nice change. I wanted to share something that happened this week at my work.

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Lagom: Swedish Minimalism for Enough

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Words have the power to shape what we understand in the world. Just knowing the definition of a word can open up new opportunities and outlooks on life. In an episode of the Invisibilia podcast from last season, they explored this topic and how they discovered a new emotion in talking with an isolated tribe which was another take on this topic.

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