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When you’re confident, you can aim for a goal that will require more resources than you have.
You won’t reach the goal — you can’t — but maybe you’ll get farther than you would have if you had set your sights on something more reasonable.
I’ve spent a lot of my career exploring what happens when this doesn’t work. When someone sets a goal they had no business trying to reach, without the confidence to survive falling short.
Read MoreOn the one hand, a hand-written to-do list is simple and elegant.
You write down what you’re going to do, and then do the things, one by one.
It has its limitations, though. One weakness of the written to-do list is that today is the only day that you can plan for.
My days got a lot more productive when I could assign tasks to specific days in the future and track them accordingly.
Read More“2023 goals...stop procrastinating...” she wrote, on Christmas Day.
It’s only a few words, but I have so much to say about them.
First, I’ll comment on the obvious irony. Why not stop procrastinating today? Procrastinating on our procrastination cessation, are we?
Read MoreI received hundreds of comments on a recent video in which I used the clearing of a brush pile to demonstrate how a person might make incremental progress toward a goal.
Such a high volume of engagement yields fascinating patterns. One common response goes something like this: “Oh, I could never do a project over multiple days. When I do something, I have to get it all the way done.”
Read MoreI’m starting to get sailing.
It’s funny to write that at the end of December when our boat is up on poppets at the boatyard and will be for months. But it’s true, I’m starting to figure it out.
I used to think that the boat went in the direction that the wind is blowing. But that’s what would happen in a boat with no rudder (and no keel).
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