Good morning, You’ve been staring at that blank document for three days now. Waiting for inspiration. Waiting for the perfect opening line. Waiting for your brain to feel sharp and creative and ready to produce genius-level work. Meanwhile, that project deadline is getting closer and your anxiety is getting louder. Here’s what nobody tells you …
6 months had passed, and as I looked at the calendar, I groaned in discouragement. What happened to the half-marathon I was going to complete? What about the blog I planned to start? I had so many big goals and lofty plans, but I made little progress accomplishing them. Life just got busy, and immediate needs trumped my bigger …
Setting goals is actually good for mental health and life satisfaction. But all too often, we set audacious—and let’s face it, near-impossible—aspirations that basically set us up for failure. In turn, this can create frustration, threaten our self-confidence, and sometimes leave us feeling worse than we did before setting said goal. So what’s the deal? …
8 Tricks to Help You Accomplish Any Goal, According to Psychologists Read More »
There is a notion that if we work harder and we do more things — build more widgets, clock more hours and manage more of the attention-grabbing stuff of our existence — we will do better. We lock ourselves into that “tight chain of efficiency” as the late Philosopher Josef Pieper called it. But Brian Kumm-Schaley, …
You can’t find time to work on your goals until you know what you spend your time on in the first place. You might have a general idea of the things you spend time on. Maybe you spend a few hours on your phone a day, a lot of minutes hitting snooze on your alarm, …
I knew a girl who once reported no longer being able to fit into her favourite jeans because they were about two sizes too small. Instead of throwing them out or giving them away, she put them on a hanger and displayed them, not inside her wardrobe (where they’d inevitably be forgotten), but rather, on …
Manifesting Your Goals From a Critical Thinking Standpoint Read More »
I have a love-hate relationship with New Year’s Resolutions. On one hand, it’s a great way to annually check-in with yourself, to audit what is and isn’t working, and to set new intentions. On the other hand, it can create unnecessary pressure to change completely overnight (while making you feel guilty when you can’t do the …
Already Feeling Behind on Your Goals? This 20-Minute Reset Will Help Read More »
The direction of our lives is decided more by the daily choices we make than anything else. And these choices are more influential to the person we are becoming than we often realize. Habits become ingrained, automatic, and often slowly creep into your life so subtly that they become routine. So if you want to …
Think about the ideal version of yourself: the one who reads every day and sticks to a perfect morning routine, and maybe even completes big craft projects or writes novels. When you have lofty goals like these — ones that require a lot of work or a major lifestyle overhaul — they can seem impossibly far …
A “Sprint Month” Can Help You Lock Into Your Goals Read More »
I want to start this post with an apology because I know you’ve heard some version of this sales pitch before: Do you want to be happier? Healthier? Lose those love handles? Become wealthier? More successful in your career? Or enjoy a life filled with growth, contribution, and purpose? If so, read on. In an internet space filled …
Keeping Score: Why Tracking Progress Fuels Success Read More »
