You’re overthinking this. You’ve got complex systems, detailed plans, and sophisticated strategies. You’re reading advanced books, following complex frameworks, and implementing intricate processes. Maybe you’ve coloured your to-do list in five different colours for what you have to do. Meanwhile, you’re ignoring the basics. The simple things that actually matter. This is why you’re not…
You’ve reached a pivotal point in this journey. And something fundamental has already shifted, whether you’ve noticed it or not. You can’t go back anymore. Not because retreat is physically impossible. Not because the bridge has literally burned behind you. But because the person who could retreat no longer exists. That version of you, the…
A lot of people are bored at work — more than would ever admit it, and in some industries, far more than others. Not burned out. Bored. There’s a difference, and it matters more than most people realise. Burnout gets all the attention. It’s dramatic. It makes good copy. There are TED talks about it,…
You were born open-minded. Watch a child encounter something new. They don’t filter it through decades of assumptions. They don’t immediately categorise it as impossible or inappropriate for someone like them. They just accept it, explore it, and try it out. That’s what you used to do. Somewhere along the way, you lost that. You…
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. That’s the answer. The question is whether you actually believe it. Perhaps think of the biggest problem you are facing, and you may be staring at the elephant you need to eat, overwhelmed by how massive it is, convinced there’s no way you can…
I wrote an article way back in 2012 about the good habits you need to develop to build the inertia for change. All of these habits are common sense, you may think. We’ve already talked about common sense earlier in our courses, and the lack of it is not doing the obvious, even when it’s…
You have it scheduled and you’ve set a goal to do something by a certain date. You’ve picked the date. It’s far enough away to feel achievable and close enough to feel real. You’ve told yourself this time is different. You’ve maybe told a few other people, too. The goal is clear, the deadline is…
In the last lesson, we talked about habitual inertia and how we want to build good habits that trigger automatically, without thinking. This happens when our mind connects a trigger with a practised response or behaviour. If this habit or response is practised enough, it happens under the radar of our consciousness. You don’t think…
Whilst lessons in this course have discussed the benefits of the compounding effect, of consistency and doing what you know you need to do, when people get stuck, they are often stuck because they are doing the wrong things, or things that don’t really matter. If you’re busy, working really hard, and you’re exhausted at…
You consistently label yourself. Maybe you don’t realise you’re doing it, but you do. You look at yourself through the same stereotypes you use to judge everyone else, and in doing so, you can inadvertently put yourself in a box that you’ve never consciously chosen. Let me explain the problem with this in a little…