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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...
12 Essential Things that Enhanced My Life
Some of the wealthiest people are the most depressed and saddest in the world. Having too much stuff can be distracting and overwhelming. Less stuff brings more clarit...
Progress, Not Perfection, is the Way
Small wins make you more productive, creative, committed, collegial, and focused. When you track the progress you’ve made, no matter how small, you gain confidence tha...
How to Learn and Master Any Skill (part 2)
When you’re acquiring and developing a new skill, you need to learn how to learn. Learning is a meta-skill for life and for sustaining peak performance. This continuat...
How to Learn and Master Any Skill (part 1)
When you’re learning and developing any skill, it’s better to have a growth mindset, than a fixed mindset. Talent and natural ability do matter. But your attitude towa...
Create Space to Think (part 2)
Making space between activities can be done solo, without allies. But industry norms and workplace culture might pull you back into chronic busyness. Norms are standar...
Create Space to Think (part 1)
To do creative, high-leverage work, you need to step back and look at the big picture. But when there are fires to put out, demands to meet, and crises to solve, it’s ...
Make Time Your Ally (not a thing to manage)
Industrialization created a clock time mentality. Time is now standardized, visible in the ticking minutes, and outside our existence. Time is a resource to make money...
Patience is a Superpower
We often get stressed and anxious when the thing we want done is not done. We want what we want now. We don’t like waiting. Patience is sometimes seen as an anti-skill...
Make Willpower Irrelevant
If you want to get to the next level, you need willpower to make creative breakthroughs and steady progress. Don’t you? After all, willpower helps you to beat distract...
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