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 [...]
If you can put certain activities into routines you’re pretty much guaranteed to succeed in the endeavour to which those activities contribute. Just like if you have a routine of showering every morning you’re pretty much guaranteed to be clean whenever you leave the house. Straight-forward enough, but the difficulty can be in making a [...]
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 [...]
In the previous article I talked about how imagination and innovation can be cultivated on a national level, even if the education system seems to go against I&I.
In this post I’ll be discussing in more detail how the work ethic principals that encourage I&I can be applied by an individual in his or her work.
First, [...]
For years I’ve been putting my personal development and production in a kind of limitless plane. Whatever time I had that was my own (and not my employer’s or my school’s) I wanted to use for development or production. Japanese study, creative writing study, novel writing, personal development – all the really important stuff was [...]
If you’ve read about the Inclination Methods you’ll know how to get yourself to do what’s best.
And when you’re well into a project (especially one that lasts months or years) motivation is going to be a less accessible tool for you than ever. That’s when self-discipline, always readily available, comes into its own. No inspirational [...]
I became an early riser this month. It was a period that was practical to this end: it was the Christmas holiday from university and so bouts of fatigue incurred through the process wouldn’t mean I’d be late for lectures or inattentive in seminars. It was also the worst period emotionally and physiologically to become [...]
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