4 ways to make your to-do list a whole lot sexier
Foolproof tactics to make sure your to-do list actually gets done
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When a person becomes an idea
Here is a fact you cannot deny: you are a person. Let’s draw a dot to illustrate this. Pretend this dot is you. When your friends, family, and acquaintances think of you, chances are many things come to mind: how you make them feel; the nice (and not so nice) […]
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Here’s why your daily commute may be destroying your happiness
Occasionally a book comes along that changes the way you think about a topic. Happy City, by Charles Montgomery, is one of those books. It will change the way you look at how your city is structured, while giving you a bunch of pointers for how you can structure […]
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5 smart ways to spend your willpower wisely
How much willpower we have every day is limited—we wake up with a fresh tank of the stuff, but as we exercise our willpower throughout the day, we steadily deplete this reserve. If we’re not careful, we can even run out. This is why, after a long, hard day of […]
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If you have a five year plan, your work isn’t interesting enough
I have a strong belief that’s a bit controversial: If you have a detailed plan for where you see yourself in five years, you aren’t doing interesting enough work. The reason for this is simple: the future is impossible to predict. We hardly know what will happen in one year, […]
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Why you should keep a weekly accomplishments list
I’m a big fan of maintaining an Accomplishments List throughout the year, and adding to it whenever I accomplish something awesome. On mine, I keep all kinds of milestones: Relationship milestones, like anniversaries with my girlfriend Milestones related to my book Financial milestones, like in paying off my student debt […]
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Your 4 most important habits
Chances are you’ve heard this story before. On the first day of class, an old, wise university professor holds an empty mason jar up, and fills it to the brim with rocks. He then asks the class whether or not it’s full. They say, “Yes, of course it is!” But […]
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Does your work scale?
One of the most important questions you can ask about your work is whether or not it “scales.” That is, are you are paid by the hour (doesn’t scale), or by how much you accomplish (scales). A factory employee’s work (and time) doesn’t scale: for every unit of time he […]
