Habits & Goals
Practical ways to decide what you want and then actually get started.
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Not producing the results you want? Try this Reality Check exercise
Not long ago, I set out to learn basic Italian in advance of a trip. I signed up for a course at the Italian Cultural Institute (or, if you prefer, Istituto Italiano di Cultura), bought…
Practice of the Week: Starting Rituals
Procrastination sucks. Oh sure, it may seem like a good idea at the time, but like your mom probably told you, it’s all fun and games until you’re on your death bed wracked by regrets…
How to keep track of your life as if it really matters (which it does)
There’s a ton of great evidence—both scientific and anecdotal—pointing to the power of focused journaling. In their book Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy – Until You’re 80 and Beyond, Chris Crowley and…
The Reasonable Person’s Guide To Goals
Can we talk about goal setting and management for a moment? Love or hate? Inspiring or demotivating?Few areas are as hotly contested in the world of human motivation and productivity research and advice. For every…
If you don’t care where you’re going, it doesn’t matter which way you go
When I first started working with a personal coach, he asked me a series of strangely provocative questions: What resolutions or goals are you ready to declare? What do you want to accomplish in this…
Counter Intuitive Advice of the Day: Ignore Your Feelings
Every now and then I come across a particularly clarifying thought. Here is today’s, from social psychologist Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, who specializes in motivation: If you are putting something off because you don’t feel…
Kinder, Gentler Resolutions
New Year’s Resolutions are a form of declaration, a verbal act with great potential for starting, or concluding, something. If this annual tradition works for you, by all means, let it rip. If, however, your…
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