Research-Backed Advice on Personal Development, Productivity + Self Motivation.
This is Part 1 of a 2-Part series on how to become smarter, faster and better at goal setting, inspired by the book, Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg. Here’s what we cover in Part 1: Why …
[Read more...] about Smarter Faster Better, Part I: Why SMART Goals Don’t Work
Mini habits are daily routines/rituals that take just a few minutes to perform, but have huge returns in the overall quality of your life as a result of doing so. So, what are some good “mini habits” …
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When you woke up this morning, what did you do first? Did you hop in the shower, did you check your email, or did you grab a doughnut from the kitchen counter? Did you brush your teeth before or after …
[Read more...] about Habit Loops: The Secret to Creating or Breaking Any Habit
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport About Most people have totally lost the ability to go “deep”—spending their days instead in an erratic blur of e-mail …
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“The kind of self-affirmation I’m talking about—the kind whose effects [researchers] have studied—doesn’t have anything to do with reciting generic one-liners in the mirror, nor does it involve …
[Read more...] about Stressed Out? Remember Your Core Values
The research I’ve been doing for years now joins a large body of inquiry into a quality I call presence. Presence stems from believing in and trusting yourself—your real, honest feelings, values, and …
I love waking up early and working out. And the reasons for this are many, including the research-driven data that shows how exercising in the morning actually gives us MORE energy, as opposed to the …
Ali’s brilliance was his mind. His brains, not his brawn. Back since the earliest days of boxing, experts relied on what they called the “tales of the tape” to predict how successful a given …
[Read more...] about The Growth Mindset: Muhammad Ali’s Real Secret To Success
The One Thing : The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan “Success is sequential, not simultaneous” “Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re …
