Proactive Productivity: How to be Focused But Nimble at Work Development times are short — either at your company or at the competitor’s or both. News cycles are short — with the dominance of internet communications, you have many ways to respond, and little time to...
In my (free) Thinking Directions Starter Kit, I teach a foundational tactic called "Thinking on Paper." Whenever you need leverage to deal with any mental issue — cognitive, emotional, or behavioral — "thinking on paper" helps. The process of purposefully writing out...
I derive my ideas on happiness from Ayn Rand, who wrote, among other things, "Morality...is a code of values to guide man’s choices and actions—the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life." (AR, The...
Whenever I hear myself or someone else saying, "I have no choice," I challenge that idea. You always have a choice -- and owning your power of choice has huge benefits. When you think you have no choice, that just means you've ruled out the other options that you see....
Here's some old-fashioned advice that may be just what you need to get out of a present-day thinking block: Spread out your notes all over your desk. That's right, your desk, not your computer screen. Yes, programs exist to move around words in many wonderful easy...
Videos for the main class are immediately below. A private podcast with all audio recordings, including bonus classes, is directly below the videos. Just-in-Time Planning Note: This course, which starts December 30-31, 2023 in a special workshop, will be...
When Thinking Lab members tell me their task is hard, I hear alarm bells in my mind. Invariably, I find they are making a difficult task harder than it has to be. A difficult task is one that requires a special mental effort to complete. It may require all your...
In the most recent article in this series on happiness, I mentioned that the next topic would be embracing causality. To be happy, you need to understand the causal factors that contribute to your present emotional state so that you can enact the causes that will...
Tactic: "Hyping" Overview What: Hyping When: This is a good tactic to use when you are daydreaming about a project instead of doing it. How: This is a variation on complaining. Instead of collecting negative thoughts, you gather positive thoughts. Exaggerated sentence...
An important way you grow in the middle of challenges is to choose the person you want to be. This is not as easy as it might seem. I find it’s always helpful to put the vision into writing, spelling out what I want, in entirely positive terms. I recently did this for...
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