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Stop Being Busy. Start Resting.
When you’re busy all the time, it’s hard to pause, slow down and rest. But the busier you are, the more you need to recover and recharge.In episode 70 of The Increment...
Learn While Doing Things (Better)
Learning is a meta skill for thriving, growing, and doing better. When you don’t learn, you stay stuck and repeat the same mistakes. While learning might not be as urg...
How to step into uncertainty, make progress, and find flow
Uncertainty makes it harder to make progress and find flow in meaningful things. In easy conditions, progress is a straight line toward an end point. But when there’s ...
Goal Setting to Make Your Best Year Ever
Setting goals - when done right - puts you on the path to a more desired life. In goal setting, do not make the finish line the main thing or lose sight of the journey...
A Bias for Action Can Make You Fail
A bias for action can help you do big things and reach big goals. In big projects, it's vital in the delivery phase, which should be fast. But it hurts the planning p...
Solitude: A Path to Move Through Loneliness
Solitude is a chosen state of being alone. It is not the same as interpersonal loneliness or existential loneliness, which may lead to an early death or death by suici...
Turn your hard efforts into easier steps (become an Incrementalist)
As you make gains, step by step, your actions and behaviors that used to take a lot of effort become more like a habit. You can choose to stay there and enjoy what you...
Making Decisions When You Don't Know What to Do
Uncertain outcomes and imperfect data make it tougher to decide. A decision starts with a choice, which is an opportunity to select from two or more options. A decisio...
Making Decisions When You Have Choice Overload and Cognitive Biases
Decision-making can be daunting. A decision can be so tough that you avoid it for as long as possible, instead of approach it head-on. And we can get worn out by the ...
7 Mistakes to Avoid When Goal Setting
Goals are targets, milestones or results you want to achieve. But week after week, month after month, year after year, we set goals that we soon forget. Before you de...
Why You Need to Set Goals, Even if Achieving Them Doesn't Make You Happier
Why doesn’t goal achievement make us happier? When we finally accomplish what we want or create the life we designed, we feel excited and ecstatic. But as the days and...
What to Do When You're Motivated to Do Nothing
There’s no shortage of things to do, whether at home or in the workplace. If we don’t take action and make steady progress, we stay stagnant and fall behind. But there...
The Truth About Productivity Advice and Toxic Productivity
Toxic productivity occurs when you apply habits, routines and practices that are prescribed for someone else. Some of the productivity advice are hacks, tricks and tip...
The Power of Slow Living and Doing Less
Harness the power of slow living and practice the slow philosophy. This is how you break the obsession with doing more faster and, instead, do the right things at the ...
5 Things to Start Doing to Finish Your Goals
If you have trouble finishing projects and goals, you’re not alone. This is a common human experience. The fact is, we have more ideas than what we can develop, use an...
How to Stay Focused and Control Your Attention
Your ability to focus on deep work is key to being productive. Your power to connect ideas is vital to being creative. Whether you’re focusing or mind wandering, you n...
Digital Minimalism: Break Your Technology Addiction and Master Your Tech Use
Digital technology has its benefits and is not all bad. But tech-overuse and tech addiction cause problems, too. To break our tech addiction and master our tech use, w...
3 Gifts from Memento Mori (Remembering You Will Die)
Memento Mori is a powerful practice to create a meaningful, productive and fulfilling life. Roughly translated to English, it means, "Remember you must die." Reflectin...
Why Work-Life Balance is Not Worth the Effort (and What to Aim for Instead)
When we hear the term work-life balance, we tend to think of it as a good thing. It’s doing great work, without overworking. It’s getting enough rest, without staying ...
3 Ways to Make Boring or Hard Work Easier to Do
Habits help you automate positive behavior and actions on a daily basis. But they are not enough to perform at your peak. There will be times when you will have to do ...
How to Reset and Start Fresh (when you feel stuck)
If you feel stuck, bored or just plain lazy, you might be waiting for inspiration to strike. But what if it doesn’t? You might think you need more discipline or willpo...
A Quick Way to Make Habits Stick
Habit stacking is a quick way to build good habits, which have a lasting, massive impact in your life. Habits are automatic behaviors that reduce decision fatigue, mak...
4 Reasons It's So Hard to Build Good Habits
Goals are the results and outcomes you want to achieve. They are the direction you want to head in, at least for the time being. But systems are what create the desir...
How to Time Block (Without the Apps)
When you hear the term Time Blocking, you might picture color-coded calendars filled up with specific activities for the week. Digital apps to block time might also co...
When to Quit and When to Persist
Patience and persistence are essential for success. If you give up whenever you face a challenge or an obstacle, you’re bound to fail. But you also need to know when t...
How to Kickstart Your Year with 12 Key Questions
At the time of this recording, it’s the last week in December 2021. What a year it’s been. In some ways, it was a lot easier than 2020 and, in other ways, it was a lot...
Small Steps: The Surest Way to Success
At the end of the year and the start of a new one, we tend to reflect on accomplishments and think about aspirations. There’s nothing wrong with keeping the status quo...
Make Use of Good Anxiety
We have all experienced anxiety on some level at various points in our lives. COVID 19 and the global response to it have brought massive changes and deep uncertainty ...
How to Control Your Attention
There are news stories and articles on how we have the attention span of a goldfish. You might have heard that with the Internet, we can now only focus for 8 seconds a...
Get Bored Now
Is boredom a negative emotion? It is defined as a feeling of discontent with something that is dull, repetitive, tiresome or tedious. We prefer to stay away from anyth...
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