Dr. Wayne Pernell describes writing a bright-orange four-letter word on a card and taping it to his door to break out of graduate school routine. He argues that introducing one small new action each day prevents life from closing in and shifts your mindset.
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The whole idea of what can you do new today? Even you know I, I'm going to borrow some of our time so I can tell a really quick story and that is when I was in graduate school I, I realized I was doing the same thing over and over and over. I was sitting in my, I was sitting at my desk in my little room that I have a house that I had rented and I was either at the computer or studying and then I'd go to school and then I'd come back. It was, that's what I did. And I realized my life was my. It was closing in on me. It was just closing in. I took a 4x8 piece of paper card. I was, I was using it to study. It's the bigger size from 3 by 5, 4 by 8 and I in bright orange letters I wrote a four letter word ending in K and I stuck that on the threshold of the doors.