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Ryan Pavel

📍 Chicago http://3DProductivity.com

🔋 Lunar Lessons

Look to the moon and consider what it may teach you. It's always there, serving its purpose. It doesn’t always reveal its full self — even on cloudless nights, it may only offer a sliver. On rare occasion, it strikes a different color, an orangish-red that stirs attention.

🔋 Memorials & Purpose

I am here because others are not. I must move forward because others cannot. This swirled through my mind during the minute of silence on Memorial Day, while I listened to the wind whipping through the flags around me. This reality gives me purpose. It gives me strength. It gives

🔋 Finding Weird, Part 3 - The Bridge

Fear, then strength…then what? We are at our best when we are ourselves. Our strange, unique, goofy selves. Believe that, and you will be better for it. This is my core contention. In part one of this series, we talked about revealing and acknowledging fears — those insidious things that

🔋 Finding Weird, Part 2 - Strength

Let's keep getting weird, eh? We all bring something different to the table. My contention is that the sooner we identify and lean into those differentiators, the sooner we can move towards fulfillment. Our weirdness is, to use a phrase I’m fond of, the good stuff. Last

🔋 Embracing Weird, Part 1 - Fear

Let's get a little weird, eh? One of the first posts I wrote in the recent incarnation of this blog was about finding your maximum and unique value. I think about that concept a lot. A less delicate way to describe it would be to ask: "What

🔋 A Zebra's Perspective

I wonder how many times I say the word "perspective" on a monthly basis. It's become one of those core concepts for me. Some of this is the product of how I talk about Warrior-Scholar Project. What do we actually do? Sure, it's about

🔋 Priority Pivots

You've seen Friends, right? Somehow I hadn't, at least not in full, until a couple years ago (good lookin' out, Em). Watching it rounded out some iconic memes and scenes I knew from the cultural zeitgeist but could never really explain. Including: It turns out

🔋 The Humbling Quest to Get More Done

Let me guess: you planned on getting more stuff done in 2025 than you did in 2024, and so far, it's not going particularly well. For all our differences, for all our disparate views and backgrounds, there's a universal urge to do more. Dishearteningly, that'

🔋 Two Productivity Questions We Should (but don't) Ask

What are the productivity questions we should be pondering but don't actually take the time to ask? Two Questions When we set out to start something, it's all too easy to skip straight to the doing without spending time on the why. Asking and answering two

🔋 Back to Basics: Taking Notes & Taking Actions

I'm back. Let's start by getting back to basics, eh? After hitting that milestone of 40 consecutive posts, I gave myself a break. I have so many ideas and partially written posts. I'm excited for this next season of the blog, staying focused on