How to Plan Your Week in 15 Minutes (A Simple Sunday Routine)
A calmer week starts with 15 minutes on Sunday. Here’s a simple five-step routine, with paper or your phone, to plan your week without the stress.
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The Compound Effect of Small Choices: Why Systems Beat Willpower Every Time
Most people trying to change their lives make the same mistake: they wait for motivation, then rely on willpower to carry them through. It works for a few days, sometimes a few weeks. Then life gets busy, motivation fades, and the old patterns creep back in. The people who actually transform their habits long-term aren’t…
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Day 22 Is Where Most People Quit: The Real Timeline for Building a Habit
It doesn’t take 21 days to build a habit. The research says closer to 66. What that means, and four rules for getting through the middle.
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Wanting Isn’t Deciding: How to Turn the Intention to Improve Into Action
Wanting to improve is easy. Deciding is different. The research on why intentions fail, and the simple if-then plan that closes the gap.
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Personal Mastery: Living With the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be
Personal mastery is not a finish line. It is the practice of holding a clear vision next to an honest view of reality, and refusing to lower the first to feel better about the second.
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“Do Your Best” Is a Bad Goal: How to Set Goals That Actually Work
“Do your best” feels safe, but decades of research say specific, challenging goals win. The four ingredients of a good goal, why too-high goals backfire, and six steps to set yours.
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10 Principles of Success
How do we define success? Webster’s dictionary specifies success as” the attainment of favor, eminence, or wealth.” I believe we would concur that Webster’s meaning is quite accurate in regard to how we take a look at individuals that we view to be “successful”. I wish to broaden your thing on this belief with the…
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The Truth About Procrastination and Motivation
Chronic procrastination is usually a motivation problem, not a time-management one. Here is how purpose changes that.
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Getting Back on Track: Eight Ways to Rebuild Your Motivation
Lost momentum? Eight practical ways to get back on track, from treating setbacks as information to finding people who keep you going.
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Avoid Avoiding
Procrastination can creep in and easily become a habit. Once it does, it can erode your capacity to function effectively. But, breaking a habit is no easy thing to do, let alone face starting. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a constant work in progress. Once you accept that procrastination could exist and it’s something,…
