As with happiness, that feeling of ‘let’s do this!’ has different names to describe different nuances of the psychological state. Yet people (including me) use the words interchangeably.
In personal development everything comes down to motivation, or what’s better described more generally as that ‘let’s get on with it’ feeling. There is so much literature on [...]
In a recent article I mentioned an exercise I did of typing up all the big questions I could think of, in the space of about twenty minutes, that I didn’t know the answers to. There’s not much to say about it, but it’s such a good exercise that it deserves an article in its [...]
This article isn’t about breaking damaging cycles such as drug addiction, smoking, alcoholism, gambling etc. It’s about breaking thought cycles. Thought cycles are extremely unlikely to put you in an ambulance, but they are obstacles to living life better.
A thought cycle is…
You think about doing something, you decide almost immediately that you want [...]
I was so excited to come up with the content of this article! And it was sort of by accident. I have uncovered what I think might just be the ultimate discipline trick – the best technique, free of drugs, hypnosis or behavioral conditioning, to cut out slacking.
Okay, so, you’ve been doing a piece of [...]
Recently I got thinking about my morning routine and wondered if it affected my productivity. And oh, it does. It really does. Yet my typical routine is probably the same as most people’s. That’s partly why it seemed like a good blog article: if my routine is far from optimal, then most people are probably [...]
In the previous article I outlined the long-term thinking paradox: that it is by thinking in the long-term that we find the resolve to start the journey but it is this thinking which can stop us from taking all the necessary steps right to the end.
Just as the learning of Japanese was a good example [...]
One morning recently I was sitting on the bus on a miserable overcast day and was deep in thought, as for some reason I often am on buses.
And that morning, not for the first time, I found myself wondering about the minds of bus drivers.
You see, the thing about bus drivers is that I just [...]
With pretty much anything you do, time is going to move quickly
The final thing I do to psyche myself up to take the journey is to remind myself that pretty much no matter how I spend my time: it’s going to go fast.
Time moves fast, and it moves faster as you get older. It’s a [...]
The early days are great
To get going on what you ought to think about, rather than the disparaging ‘it’s such a vast tower – do I really want to commit?’ is that the early days of scaling it will be some of the best ones.
This is the way to go from paralysing dread of embarking [...]
This article is the first of a series on plucking up the courage to start a big journey, literal or otherwise. I’m thinking particularly in terms of learning something new or becoming something new, but this article applies to pretty much any massive undertaking.
When learning something new that’s absolutely massive it can be too daunting [...]
Recent Comments