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July 31, 2014
What You Can Learn From Purposely “Breaking” Your Positive Habits
I’m back after a well-deserved writing sabbatical and what a delight it is to write again. I feel invigorated after my four weeks off and excited about posting new content for you. Today I’m going to talk about a habit experiment I conducted while recently travelling across Russia, but more on that later. First, let’s […]
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June 23, 2014
My One Month Writing Sabbatical
Long-time readers of my website know I’m a firm believer in consistency; if you want to constantly and never-endingly improve your craft, not only do you have to actually turn up, but you have to do so consistently in order to produce the results you want. That’s why I’ve written and posted an article every […]
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June 19, 2014
How I Cut Back On Social Media (And What I Learnt)
If there’s one obstacle that regularly postpones us from actualising our goals it’s procrastinating because of distractions. This isn’t a new problem (as much as we’d like to argue). In fact, in The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor writes: “It’s not the sheer number and volume of distractions that gets us into trouble; it’s the ease of […]
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June 16, 2014
How to Commit to Your Habits Using the 20 Second Rule
In his book, The Happiness Advantage, happiness researcher Shawn Achor discusses how he wanted to make practicing guitar a daily habit. However, he encountered a problem (one that plagues each and every one of us): as much as he tried, he couldn’t motivate himself to do it. “The guitar was sitting in the closet, a […]
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How to Commit To Your Habits Using the 20 Second Rule
In his book, The Happiness Advantage, happiness researcher Shawn Achor discusses how he wanted to make practicing guitar a daily habit. However, he encountered a problem (one that plagues each and every one of us): as much as he tried, he couldn’t motivate himself to do it. “The guitar was sitting in the closet, a […]
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June 12, 2014
Misidentifying Happiness
Recently, I wrote about how happiness can be a result of either (1) your perception of your environment of (2) the environment itself (or even a combination of the two). [1] The problem people can have is attribute their unhappiness to the latter (when it’s in fact the former) and repeat this irrationalisation again and […]
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June 9, 2014
How to Track Your Habits Using a Habit Tracker
If you’ve read my book, you’ll recall the importance of having a habit tracker to track your habits in order to (1) understand how far you are to automatising them (approximately 66 days) and (2) plan when to improve upon them. [1] I believe one of the most common reasons people fail at overcoming their […]
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June 5, 2014
Photo Booths and Opportunities
7. That’s the number of people I asked yesterday where I could locate a photo booth. No one could tell me. I persevered and eventually, I found one, but I have a confession to make – it was one I’d passed daily but never had noticed. How could that be? What’s more, what else am […]
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June 2, 2014
Procrastination is an Opportunity for Introspection
“I need to check my inbox”. No, you don’t. You also don’t need to eat a meal, reply to a text message or return a library book before you begin. You “need” to do them because they’re the least resistant choices compared to what you really need to do. You also don’t need to “overcome” […]
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May 29, 2014
Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions (Kindle Highlights)
My reading habit is perhaps the best it’s ever been: I’m currently reading, on average, one new book a week. Recently, I read Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions by Chip & Dan Heath. Having also read and enjoyed their other book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, I was looking forward […]
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