What do you do when your motivation wanes, when you feel like everything is a huge effort with no payoff, when the muse doesn’t show up, when you feel like you’re losing momentum, and when you start to wonder why am I even doing any of this?
Why 30-Day Challenges Don’t Work
A 30-day challenge can be a fun way to challenge yourself, but if you want to create a lasting change, time-fixed challenges are a waste of time.
How Long Does it Really Take to Create a Habit?
One of the most common questions people ask me is: How long does it take to create a new habit? Here’s why this question is not relevant, and what you should focus on instead.
The Limits of Modeling Others’ Success
Success leaves clues, but not all clues are relevant. You need to know what you’re looking for so you can find the parts that matter.
Blue Blood Moons, Planting Trees, and Celebrating the Process
What we can learn from moon cycles, planting seeds, and the new year for trees.
7 Reasons You Get Stuck in Making Progress
Outcomes and process the cornerstones of productivity: what you produce (or deliver) and how you produce (or deliver) it. Most of us get stuck in one or the other; sometimes in both. Yesterday I shared several ways we get stuck with process. Today I’m addressing outcomes.