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Confidence and certainty are often disconnected from accuracy. I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of cases where someone holds a belief that clearly isn’t true. What you see so clearly in others in harder to see within yourself, however. For that reason it’s wise to identify, question, and test some of your assumptions to see if…
For today’s post I’d like to pause and check in with you. I’d also like to invite you to check in with yourself and reflect on how you’re doing. I’d genuinely love some feedback from you – not about me or my writing but about you and your life. Would you be willing to share…
Yesterday I was conversing with Rachelle about how to communicate with someone who has what you might call lower than average emotional and social intelligence but is otherwise extremely bright. (It’s not a member of this community by the way, and our interactions are normally short and infrequent.) Rachelle noted that he, “seems to have…
Anything and everything can start the habit loop. Seriously. Whatever your brain can process can be your habit trigger. Emotional State Quite often, an emotional state can be a trigger for your habit. Compulsive obsessive eaters? Alcoholics? They don’t eat because they are hungry or drink because they are thirsty. They escape from some emotional […]
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Visualizing your goals can be helpful, but don’t limit your visualizations to the same types of scenes you’re accustomed to seeing with your eyes. Your mind is a lot more powerful than your eyeballs. Note also that your visual cortex is only about 0.5% of your brain. Consider what more is possible if you could…
In the early days of Netflix (late 1990s), they ran a promotion to get a particular DVD for only two cents. However, a mixup occurred when the freshly printed DVDs were picked up from the replicating service. At least one of the spindles they picked up contained porn DVDs instead of the intended content. None…
A purposeful life and career path doesn’t usually show up all at once. You create it over time by incrementally leaning into experiences that feel more meaningful and purposeful. It’s a lifetime pursuit.
By Leo Babauta Every now and then, I have to remind myself to do one thing at a time. The tendency to try to do a whole bunch of things seems to be a natural result of my wanting to get everything done as soon as I can. Many browser tabs open, switching between one […]
For quite a while my home state of Nevada was seeing less than 200 new coronavirus cases per day. Then the casinos, bars, and many other local businesses were allowed to reopen. I soon saw the stats creeping up to 300-400 new cases per day… then to 500-1000 per day. Now we’re around 1400 new…
After you’ve decided to move on from partial matches in some area of life and you’ve declared your standards raised henceforth, you can still relapse. The old habits can seduce you back. This is incredibly common. People usually do relapse one or more times before they strongly lock into a new standard of behavior. You…
