Here’s the problem with building habits: In order to build brand-new ones, you already have to be a disciplined and organized person. You need to have good knowledge of how habits work and what mistakes you tend to make. If you don’t, building habits becomes tricky. You don’t know what to pay attention to, or you give up because of a lack of motivation. How…
Habit Loops: The Anatomy of Habits That Stick
Ever feel like your life is completely out of your control? You just wake up and go through the motions like you’ve done a thousand times. You’ve tried changing your habits in the past, but you always end up back where you started. It’s disheartening. It makes you feel like a loser. As I’m writing this on the 18th of February, people are abandoning their…
How to Supercharge Your Productivity With Keystone Habits
About a year ago I decided to create a habit of reading a book for an hour every morning. Initially, I did this just because I wanted to read more. I didn’t have the time during the day and I’d simply forget to do it in the evening — or I started watching a movie. After doing this for a couple of weeks, I noticed…
The Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
People believe in some weird shit. Eben Byers, for example, was a 20th century steel mogul who regularly drank a radioactive “medicine” called Radithor because he thought it was good for him. It wasn’t. He died of multiple radiation related cancers. Or as the Wall Street Journal put it: “The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off” (source) On the other side of…
The Carver Matrix: How to Prioritize Like a Pro
It doesn’t matter whether you’re trying to grow your business, lose weight, or improve your productivity, if you work on the wrong thing at the wrong time you won’t get any results. The questions then becomes: How do you effectively prioritize all the possible activities? Well, turns out there’s a neat system for that. Enter the carver matrix. The carver matrix was invented by the…