So your New Year’s resolution fell on its face 10 days into January, and your habit tracker hasn’t seen any marks in a while. You’ve fallen off the horse, gotten off track, endured some setbacks, and you’re not feeling so great about it at the moment. There’s only one thing to do. Get up, dust…
Goal-Setting Success: Every Little Bit Counts
When setting your sights on a goal—perhaps you want to clean out your closet, lose 20 pounds, get out of debt, spend more time with your family, wake up earlier, or be a friendlier person—whatever it is, it helps to remember that every little bit counts. Keep Going It can be easy to feel overwhelmed…
Celebrating Incremental Improvements
If you ever feel like you’re struggling to meet your own expectations of yourself or reach your own goals, you may be too focused on the end result and not focused enough on the process. A simple way to feel much better about the direction you’re heading is to celebrate incremental improvements. Reframe Your Progress…
Why Goals Fail, and How to Do Better
August 18, 2022
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A goal is any outcome in your life that wouldn’t happen without an intervention. It’s a detour from the path of least resistance. Maybe you recognize that your current habits aren’t cutting it. You have greater ambitions for your life than the trajectory your current behaviors have you on. You’re going to need to change…
Goals of Being
Many years ago one of my goals for public speaking was to design and deliver my own three-day workshop on the Las Vegas Strip. I first achieved that goal in 2009. That was a goal of doing. Another goal I had for public speaking was to develop such strong comfort with public speaking that I…
The Goal Setting Guide That Works
I have to be honest, I don’t have the world’s best track record with goals. This post isn’t being written because of my valuable experiences in this area, but out of my desire to grow and never stop learning. To write this post, I spent time researching the most helpful and respected voices in goal-setting…
How to Get Better at Achieving Your Goals
I went into the summer with big plans, mainly to meditate and exercise a lot more. Then I went on vacation, and then the kids were home, and then I had a bunch of work travel…you know how it is. Here’s the thing: Intentions are never enough. Even full-blown goal-setting isn’t worth much if you don’t do…
4 Ways to Make the Most of 24 Hours
First: be intentional at the start of each day. With a fresh 24 hours before us, it’s easy to just get started in our usual way. But to make the most of this new batch of hours, I’ve found it important to take a few moments at the start of the day to reflect on…
Escaping the Insufferable Status Quo
In the past decade, my wife, Heather, and I have made some significant changes in our lives. Nine years ago, I stopped practicing law. Eight years ago, we ditched our bricks-and-mortar office and shifted to a virtual business model. Six years ago, we moved our family from a suburb of a large city to a…
How to Execute a Big Idea on Limited Time
If I was to offer you $100 today or $120 a week from now, which would you choose? If you’re like most people, you’d choose the hundred bucks now. That’s the conclusion of a classic study that found that, when it comes to decision-making, most of us opt for immediate gratification. Why does this matter? Well, making…
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