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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...
Love and Connection in a Time of Loss
We’ve all experienced loss in some shape or form. It could be the loss of a dream job, a friend moving away, a health crisis, or a change in lifestyle that you didn’t ...
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...
Dealing with Motivation Ruts and Burnout
2020 was an especially challenging year. And this year continues to require some extra effort to start and finish things that matter. Even if you’ve built a busine...
Finding Your Ikigai (sense of purpose)
Ikigai is a Japanese philosophy for discovering your purpose and building self-awareness. Your ikigai is something that gives you a sense of purpose. It sustains you a...
How to Stay Accountable and Stop Self-Sabotage
To gain traction and execute better on your goals, start with a 12-week action plan instead of a longer term, annual plan. Rather than wait an entire year to track pro...
How to Accomplish More in 12 Weeks Than in 12 Months
If you’re resisting what you need to accomplish, you might have given yourself too much time to execute your plans. New Year’s Resolutions and annual goals rarely get ...
Get Stressed the Right Way
Stress is not always bad. It comes with having big goals and pushing beyond your comfort zone. Going off to college, starting a new job, traveling to a foreign country...
Make Better Decisions Even When You're Uncertain
When you’re making a decision on tough problems, you are always missing key information. Every decision is biased because it’s based on limited beliefs, assumptions an...
Time Affluence: Create Time to Be Happier
If you want to have a happier, more satisfying life, it’s better to value time over money. It doesn’t matter whether you’re financially secure or financially strugglin...
Do, Ship, Repeat
We often believe we need credentials to do useful or valuable work. Whether it’s having a college degree, a training certificate, or a professional license, credential...
Effortless Productivity
It’s common to believe that any problem can be solved with hard, heads-down work. While diligence and determination are elements of success, you could also seek to mak...
Find and Keep a Hobby You Love
A hobby is an activity you enjoy doing with little or no focus on the long game or the end results. You do it for fun or leisure in your free time. When you already ...
Consistency and the Compound Effect
While intensity ebbs and flows, consistency is steadier and more sustainable. Even when you feel unmotivated, you can keep taking daily actions to get to where you nee...
Create Peak Moments for a Meaningful Life
In the competitive, industrial or post-industrial world, productivity is often defined by a simple formula: Output / Input. (Output is ideal output x efficiency). Or V...
Make Time for Daily Highlights
The space between the small tasks and the big goals is the sweet spot. It’s where you savor the moment (the now), while you say no to things that don’t matter and yes ...
Smart Note-Taking for Productive Work
We all write on some level. We write research papers, articles, blog posts, essays, books, memos, reports and the daily, basic stuff. Students, academic researchers, ...
Hack Back Email
Email processing is a repeated behavior and repetitive action. Email is a habit-forming tool. It's a key method for communication, collaboration and information sharin...
Evening Routines and Rituals to End Your Day
The evening is your P.M. bookend to your day. Your evening routine is your “me time” at night that helps you to unwind, quiet the nervous system and prepare for sleep....
Morning Routines and Rituals to Start Your Day
Your morning is your A.M. bookend to your day. A morning routine can help you get the clarity and structure you need every day, wherever you are. How you start your da...
How to Make a To-Do List that Works
An effective to-do list helps you take action on the right priorities at the right time. But if yours leaves you feeling overwhelmed and uninspired, you need to change...
Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking: You Need Both to Get Unstuck and Solve Problems
When you’re working on a complex problem, how do you innovate and fix it? Is it better to generate creative insights or to use logical reasoning? You need both for cre...
Focused vs. Diffused Thinking: You Need Both to Learn and Solve Problems
To learn new concepts and skills, you need to engage both the focused mode and diffused mode of thinking. Learning is a meta skill that allows you to turn information ...
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