just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! Building good habits can be hard. Real hard. Nearly half of dieters give up within a week. From Stick with It: Forty percent of dieters quit within one week and more than 50 percent end up weighing more than they did before they started their diets. So what really helps? Does…
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! You're too tired to do it. Or you're too wound up to do it. Or you're too intimidated to do it. Or, plain and simple, you "just don't feel like it." At times we all struggle with how to get motivated. (Hey, sometimes I don't feel like writing this stuff.)…
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! Everybody would like to get more of the right things done. But how does Stoicism fit into all of this? The word "productivity" seems new and sleek and shiny. And Stoicism is old. Really old. Like older-than-grandpa-old. I have news for you: Facebook and email may be recent but people have…
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! You probably know more than a few people who are just clueless about themselves. They make the same errors over and over but never seem to notice. They think they're great at stuff that, frankly, they're terrible at. But that's not the real problem... The real problem is you're one…
just wanted to let you know my first book is now a Wall bestseller! We all struggle with bad habits. Resisting them is hard. Changing them feels impossible. Now there are plenty of tricks from standard psychology on how to deal with bad habits. But what if there was a way that really helped you understand yourself better? Something that wasn't just a "lifehack", but actually led…
er wake up exhausted and just dread going to work? Do you feel like that most days? Every day? And we've all seen others who have suffered the death spiral of burnout and become shambling zombies at the office. They're not "The Walking Dead", they're "The Working Dead." Well, maybe you're just tired. But tired isn't burnout. Tired is tired. Get more sleep and you're not tired anymore. So what does real burnout feel like? From The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations…
st a quick reminder: my first book will be coming out on the 16th and if you preorder before Tuesday, you get awesome bonuses. For more info, click here. A morning ritual sure sounds nice (if it didn't, you wouldn't be reading this) but what's the point of one? What's it even supposed to accomplish? No, you don't have to eat kale or mechanistically begin planning your day according to some odd formula. You're…
hey're asking you for something. And you feel like if you say no, they're going to hate you. So you're tempted to say yes, even though you don't want to. Ever been there? We all have. But if you say yes, you're going to be frustrated with yourself. And you'll…
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